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What Money Secrets Do You Keep?

February 23, 2008

I was recently on twitter.com and I found a user on there called “Money Confessions“. Basically it is a channel for Geezeo.com, an online personal finance manager, where people who use their service can make confessions about things they’ve done with their money that they’re either ashamed about, or wouldn’t tell anyone else. [...]

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The Bible And Tithing: To Give Or Not To Give – Part 1

February 21, 2008

A couple of weeks ago I came across an interesting discussion on rocketfinance.net about tithing. Specifically, he was discussing whether or not it was OK for a pastor to look at tithing records of congregants when choosing deacons for the church:
I heard a pastor say that when his church members are nominated for positions [...]

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Bush Signs Economic Stimulus Package – MarketWatch

February 14, 2008

From MarketWatch.com:
President Bush signed a $168 billion economic stimulus package on Wednesday that will extend rebates to U.S. taxpayers, give tax breaks to businesses and make more-expensive mortgages available through the government and government-sponsored mortgage-finance companies.
We have come together on a single mission and that is to put the peoples’ interests first,” Bush said at [...]

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Brrrrr… It’s Cold Here In Minnesota.

January 30, 2008

Today the temps here in our area of Minnesota dropped down to 16 below zero degrees farenheit. That’s right, negative 16. Let me tell you, even for me – a Minnesotan born and bred – that is cold. They’re saying the wind chill has gotten to -45. Weather fact for here in [...]

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Tax Rebates – What Do They Mean For You?

January 26, 2008

You may have heard in recent days about a stimulus package that congress has passed to help stimulate our lagging economy. Well some details of that plan are now being fleshed out:
Bush and House lawmakers yesterday agreed on a $150 billion economic stimulus package aimed at avoiding an election-year recession. About $100 billion would [...]

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Fed Cuts Interest Rate Amid Global Stock Sell-Off And Fears Of Recession

January 22, 2008

Fed cuts interest rate:
The Federal Reserve unexpectedly slashed a key interest rate by a bold three-fourths of a percentage point on Tuesday, responding to a global plunge in stock markets that heightened concerns about a recession. The Fed signaled that further rate cuts were likely.
Does anyone think this is actually going to help?

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What Does It Take To Be Rich? Is Enough – Ever Enough?

January 22, 2008

I was reading at another blog today, www.freemoneyfinance.com, and they were posing the question, what does it take to be rich? They talked about an article in the Wall Street Journal which posed that same question to wealthy people, “How much does it take to be rich?”. The answer they found was this:
studies [...]

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Financial Lessons From Solomon

January 21, 2008

Here is an interesting article on the financial lessons of Solomon found on www.christianpf.com:Financial lessons from Solomon
Some Highlights:
Money Doesn’t Satisfy – “He who loves money with not be satisfied with money… -Ecclesiastes 5:10″
Diversify your investments – “Divide your portion to seven, or even to eight, for you do not know what misfortune may occur on [...]

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Bible Money Matters

January 21, 2008

After doing a bible study at my home church here in Bloomington, Minnesota I have realized just how important our finances are, and as a Christian, just how much the bible talks about money matters.
In an effort to document some of the things I have learned through recent studies, as well as trying to share [...]

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