Personal Finance Bible Verse Of The Day: Money Can’t Buy Everything

February 14, 2008

When Simon saw that the Spirit was given at the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them money and said, “Give me also this ability so that everyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit.” Peter answered: “May your money perish with you, because you thought you could buy [...]

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Personal Finance Bible Verse Of The Day: Be Faithful

February 13, 2008

A faithful man will be richly blessed, but one eager to get rich will not go unpunished. Proverbs 28:20 Remain faithful in Christ, and he will give you blessings beyond even your own imagining. Make money your god, and you will "not go unpunished". A sobering thought.

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Personal Finance Bible Verse Of The Day: Righteousness

February 12, 2008

Better the little that the righteous have than the wealth of many wicked; Psalm 37:16 This verse just goes to remind me that while building wealth may not necessarily be a bad thing, we need to make sure that we maintain our integrity in doing that. We need to remain righteous, and make sure we’re [...]

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Personal Finance Bible Verse Of The Day: Knowledge

February 11, 2008

By wisdom a house is built,and through understanding it is established; through knowledge its rooms are filled with rare and beautiful treasures. Proverbs 24:3-4

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Why Do We As Christians Need To Be Concerned About Money?

February 10, 2008

One question I’ve been asking myself recently is this, “Why do we as Christians need to be concerned about Money, and what the Bible says about it?”. When we think about our finances, it often feels like our faith and our money should be mutually exclusive. They have really nothing to do with each other, [...]

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Personal Finance Bible Verse Of The Day: Helping Those In Need

February 10, 2008

Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did [...]

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Dilbert and Personal Finance

February 8, 2008

I discovered an old post over at Fire Finance today talking about Dilbert author Scott Adam’s views of personal finance. In his book Dilbert and the Way of the Weasel, Adams boils down all the advice that he has read from other personal finance books, and offers up his own one page personal finance book: [...]

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Personal Finance Bible Verse Of The Day: Compassion

February 8, 2008

If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him? 1 John 3:17

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Personal Finance Bible Verse Of The Day: Borrowing

February 7, 2008

The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender. Proverbs 22:7 To me this verse should give us a sense of caution. Remember, whenever you’re about to borrow money, you are now beholden to that person/instituation where you are borrowing from. It isn’t a good situation to be in, and [...]

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Save Money: Use The Library

February 7, 2008

A few days ago in my “5 Things I Can’t Do Without” post I talked about how one of the things I couldn’t do without was my library card. I didn’t go into much detail about why that is, but today over at Money Blue Book, They talk in depth about where you can find [...]

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Personal Finance Bible Verse Of The Day: Excel In Giving

February 6, 2008

Just as you excel in everything — in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in complete earnestness and in your love for us — see that you also excel in this grace of giving. 2 Corinthians 8:7 This verse to me speaks of how as followers of Christ we need to be “Christ-like” and have compassion [...]

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Calculate When You’ll Be A Millionaire

February 6, 2008

A few days ago I posted on this blog about an article in Kiplinger’s Personal Finance talking about how you can become a millionaire at any age. The article talked about people at ages 25, 35, 45 and 55 – and how much they would need to save at those ages in order to get [...]

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Communication: Talking With Your Spouse About Money

February 5, 2008
Communication: Talking With Your Spouse About Money

I‘ve been married to my beautiful wife now for 5 1/2 years, and during those times I can’t tell you how many mis-communications we’ve had about money. I will be the first to admit that it is probably mostly my fault as I tend to research ideas about what to do with our money, our [...]

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Have You Created A Home Inventory Yet?

February 5, 2008

Switching Homeowner’s Insurance My wife and I switched homeowner’s insurance in the past month because we realized that we were overpaying by hundreds of dollars for our coverage. The process of switching our policy from one company to another was pretty painless, and to be honest, was a lot less of a hassle than I [...]

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