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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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. [...]

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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 one [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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The (Original) Christmas Story

December 25, 2008

photo credit: krisdecurtis 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 [...]

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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 who [...]

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Personal Finance Bible Verse Of The Day: Deceitfulness of Riches

December 9, 2008

But the worries of the world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful. Mark 4:19

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Devotional: I Brought My Suitcase, Lord

December 7, 2008

photo credit: Jingles the Pirate For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it. – 1 Timothy 6:7 The ancient Egyptians believed that in the afterlife they would continue the occupations they had on earth. So everything they needed for their occupations was placed in their tombs with their [...]

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Announcement: Sunday Devotionals with Jason Mitchener

December 6, 2008

Over the past few weeks I’ve been feeling a bit like I’ve been letting an important part of this blog suffer. I haven’t really been posting very much about the Bible part of “Bible Money Matters”. It’s easy to get caught up in material things, and worry about the things of this world. Finances are [...]

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Personal Finance Bible Verse Of The Day: Your Value

November 19, 2008

Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Do not fear; you are more valuable than many sparrows. Luke 12:7

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Personal Finance Bible Verse Of The Day: Having Suffiency

November 9, 2008

And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that always having all sufficiency in everything; you may have an abundance for every good deed; 2 Corinthians 9:8

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