Shopping For Term Life Insurance And Why It’s A Smart Choice For Most Situations

February 26, 2010
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Since taking Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace University I’ve been convicted of the fact that I need to have a life insurance policy. During the class they share the story of one young father who after taking FPU bought a term life insurance policy. A few weeks later he was found to have terminal brain cancer. [...]

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What Documentation Do I Need To Claim The First-Time Homebuyer Tax Credit

February 25, 2010
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If you’re planning on claiming the First-Time Homebuyer Tax Credit on your 2009 tax return you’re going to have to provide some extra documentation when filing. Not sure what documents you’re required to include?  The IRS has provided some guidance on the topic. Required Documentation For The Homebuyer Tax Credit The IRS includes these tips [...]

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Vote For Bible Money Matters In The Plutus Awards

February 24, 2010
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Within the past couple of days I was notified that Bible Money Matters was nominated and was one of the finalists in the “Best Religious Finance Blog” category of the Plutus Awards.  I’m humbled and gratified that someone enjoyed the site enough to nominate us. Before we get too far though, we should clarify – [...]

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Leave An Inheritance For Your Children

February 24, 2010
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Life’s more serious events seem to get people more serious about finances.  I know when my wife became pregnant with our daughter; all sorts of questions were raised. Will you stay home with the baby or continue working? How do we pay off remaining debt so that we can afford additional expenses? Should we begin [...]

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New Credit Card Rules Take Effect: CARD Act Of 2009

February 23, 2010
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Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility and Disclosure Act (CARD) of 2009 On May 22nd, 2009 Barack Obama signed new legislation into law called the Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility and Disclosure Act of 2009 (Credit CARD Act).  The law was supposed to force credit card companies to become more transparent with their fees, interest rates and other [...]

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Improve Marriage And Money Problems By Setting Spending Limits

February 23, 2010
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It’s quite customary for consumers who are making big purchases to set spending limits. As an example, a couple might say, “I think it is time to buy a new car.”  Once they have decided to purchase another car, they will then ask, “How much should we spend?”  A great question.  They’ll either talk about [...]

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Announcement: Blueprint For How To Make Money With A Blog E-book Is Now Available!

February 22, 2010
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Last month I wrote a series of posts on this blog about how I had turned my blog into a nice secondary source of income for my family. I discussed all the things that I have done over the past 2 years in order to take a small unheard of blog, and turn it into [...]

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More Ways To Keep In Touch : Email Newsletter, Iphone App, Mobile Theme, Amazon Kindle

February 20, 2010
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Over the last few weeks I’ve been making a lot of changes behind the scenes, things that most people probably wouldn’t notice.  In order to help make the articles here available for even more people I’ve been making Bible Money Matters compliant with several mobile platforms, in addition to launching an email newsletter just yesterday. [...]

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Need Tax Forms? Here Are Five Ways To Obtain Your IRS Tax Forms

February 19, 2010
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Where Can I Find My Tax Forms? By now you should have received all of your important tax reporting forms -  your W-2, your 1099s, interest reporting forms and the like.  The time for actually filing taxes is here, and if you’re filing your taxes by hand (I don’t do this anymore), the IRS has [...]

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Is Math The King Of The Financial Jungle?

February 18, 2010
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Here a financial myth that I’ve believed for far too long: Myth: If it makes the most math sense it must be the right choice. Reality: We must work the math system for a period of time so that we can ignore the math. You cannot ignore the math for your entire life.  In fact, [...]

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How Much To Save For Retirement

February 17, 2010
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I recently received an email from my company’s 401k plan manager asking me the question: “have you got enough cushion?”  In other words, they were asking, based on the amount of money I’m contributing to retirement today, if it will be enough?  Further into the note, their suggestion was to save as much as I [...]

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Would You Pass the ‘Rich Young Ruler’ Test?

February 16, 2010
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This is a guest post from Lakita at Personal Finance Journey. You can read more of her great writing at her site, or by subscribing to her RSS feed. The Bible records an encounter Jesus had with a man identified only as a “Rich Young Ruler”. This man realized that in spite of all he [...]

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Top 10 Tax Credits To Take Advantage Of

February 15, 2010
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This is a guest post from PT over at PTMoney.com. Head on over to his site and subscribe to his RSS feed, or to get his 52 Ways To Make Extra Money e-book. It’s that time of year again. Time to file your taxes. Whether you do it yourself, or you hand things over to [...]

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File Your Taxes This Weekend To Get A 70% Discount Off H&R Block At Home (AKA – TaxCut)

February 12, 2010
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Starting today, and going through the weekend (February 14th) H&R Block is giving a big Valentine’s weekend discount to users of their software H&R Block At Home (formerly TaxCut). H&R Block At Home will have discounts of up to 70% off the regular prices for the company’s online do-it-yourself tax filing software.  Here’s how it [...]

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