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Breaking Free From Materialism

May 6, 2009

This article is a guest post written by Jay Peroni, CFP®, who is a public speaker, registered christian financial advisor, and author of The Faith-Based Millionaire. Jay’s passion is to help people understand the importance of Faith-Based Investing. You can find out more at JayPeroni.com
Break Free
The major way to give more is to [...]

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Personal Finance Bible Verse Of The Day: Be Thankful

April 17, 2009

Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body; and be thankful. Colossians 3:15

It seems that as Christians we often have a hard time living in the peace of Christ. Like the rest of the world we love to worry. We worry that we’ll [...]

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Personal Finance Bible Verse Of The Day: Do To Others

April 7, 2009

“Which of you, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to [...]

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Personal Finance Bible Verse Of The Day: Owe Nothing But Love

March 24, 2009

Owe nothing to anyone except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. Romans 13:8

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Personal Finance Bible Verse Of The Day: I Am Ready For Anything Through Christ

March 20, 2009

For I have learned to be content, whatever the circumstances may be. I know now how to live when things are difficult and I know how to live when things are prosperous. In general and in particular I have learned the secret of eating well or going hungry of facing either plenty of poverty. I [...]

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Personal Finance Bible Verse Of The Day: Don’t Become Weary In Doing Good

March 2, 2009

Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers. Galatians 6:9-10

This week at my church the pastor was [...]

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Personal Finance Bible Verse Of The Day: Parable Of The Rich Fool

February 25, 2009

Someone in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”
Jesus replied, “Man, who appointed me a judge or an arbiter between you?” Then he said to them, “Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; a man’s life does not consist in the abundance of [...]

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Personal Finance Bible Verse Of The Day: Repay Your Debts

February 12, 2009

It is better that you should not vow than that you should vow and not pay. Ecclesiastes 5:5
This verse could be seen to apply to our current times quite well. With our current housing and foreclosure crunch people have been taking out loans left and right, making vows to repay, and then not repaying. Why? [...]

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Personal Finance Bible Verse Of The Day: More Blessed To Give

February 5, 2009

In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’ Acts 20:35
In our current times, the phrase “It is more blessed to give than to receive” is [...]

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Personal Finance Bible Verse Of The Day: Giving Back

January 30, 2009

The earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof. Psalm 24:1
As a person who is interested in personal finance, and the process of creating wealth, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about the topic. You might even say that I’ve gotten a bit obsessive about it at times.
One thing I’ve realized is that when [...]

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Personal Finance Bible Verse Of The Day: Never Satisfied With His Income

January 23, 2009

Whoever loves money never has money enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with his income. This too is meaningless. Ecclesiastes 5:10
Living in our culture it’s hard not to focus on material things. We’re blasted with constant commercials and advertisements trumpeting how happiness is only a BMW away.
We may have money, but we want [...]

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Personal Finance Bible Verse Of The Day: Diversify Your Holdings

January 15, 2009

Give portions to seven, yes to eight, for you do not know what disaster may come upon the land. Ecclesiastes 11:2
Last night in our Financial Peace University class we had a lesson on investing (you can read about it here), and one of the principles that was stressed by Dave Ramsey was that when you’re [...]

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The (Original) Christmas Story

December 25, 2008

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The Birth of Jesus
In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world.
(This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) And everyone went to his own town to register.
So Joseph also went up from the town of [...]

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Personal Finance Bible Verse Of The Day: Conduct Your Affairs With Justice

December 17, 2008

It is well with the man who deals generously and lends, who conducts his affairs with justice. Psalm 112:5
All of us will come upon times when it it would be easy to take advantage of others in our financial dealings. A friend who needs to borrow money to make rent, the family member [...]

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