Finance | Bible Money Matters

Is It Harder To Not Fall Prey To Consumerism When You Can Afford It More?

September 24, 2010

Harder Not To Spend When You Have Money?

Last night I was watching a great set of video interviews by Adam Baker over at ManVsDebt.com with other popular writers, bloggers and world travelers. I can’t link to the videos because they’re actually part of his great new premium e-book package that he’s offering called “Sell Your Crap“. ( I started reading the e-books [...]

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5 Ways To Successfully Fail At Personal Finance

September 21, 2010

Okay, so you want to fail. You want to crash and burn your finances. You really don’t care about all that “saving money” talk and would rather live your life on the edge – of homelessness. What advice is out there for a person like you? Well, here you go. These are my top five [...]

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Is College A Good Investment? Maybe.

September 14, 2010

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about how getting a college education, and specifically advanced degrees, can have a negative impact on your net worth. Thomas J. Stanley found in his book, The Millionaire Next Door, that as a group millionaires valued education, to the point where they wanted their children to have even [...]

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3 Financial Principles You Can Depend On!

September 8, 2010

I‘ve been writing about finance for some time now, and in all my research 3 principles stand out as the most important. You’ve heard these before; the problem is most people don’t take them to heart. If you follow these straightforward rules of thumb, you’re almost guaranteed to become wealthy. Let’s start with the one [...]

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Get Motivated To Reach Your Financial Goals – And Motivate Others!

September 7, 2010

Every once in a while it’s easy to get into a funk with our finances. We get out of our groove, we mess up our rhythm, we slack off. What I mean is that it’s easy to slip back into bad habits like getting into debt, or seemingly forgetting how to save money or just [...]

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5 Things About Money I Wish I Would Have Known When I Was Younger

September 2, 2010

Sam Ewing, who used to play baseball for the Chicago White Sox, once said, “Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.” Many of us may feel that we can never quite catch up with our money, but one thing is [...]

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How To Get A Spouse To Start Budgeting

August 31, 2010

This post is by Craig Ford. Craig, a freelance writer and missionary, blogs at Money Help For Christians. Today is the last day that you can get a copy Craig’s eBook, The Secret to a Successful Budget for 30% off. Married couples don’t always see eye to eye. If you’re married, you didn’t need me [...]

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How To Get Free Financial Help Online

August 25, 2010

I’ve talked a lot over at One Money Design about my personal experience as a Money Map Coach and often share how this FREE program is a helpful resource for people experiencing financial challenges. In short, the coaching services are FREE and available through Crown Financial Ministries. Crown is dedicated to equipping people worldwide to [...]

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Family Finance: Top Mistakes Young Families Make

July 27, 2010

Singles finance and family finance differ quite a bit. I’ve learned that well over the past 5 1/2 years (our oldest child is now 5 1/2). My personal experience has shown there are more spending pressures and overall expenses when you have a young family. Examples include birthday parties, swim lessons, dance lessons, clothes, toys, [...]

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A Small Business Wonder: Review Of OutRight.com

July 26, 2010

If you have a small business, the last thing you want to do is focus on accounting. Instead, you probably would rather focus on your work – what you love to do for a living! Accounting has been one of those business tasks that usually gets put on the back-burner. For those of us who [...]

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3 Steps To Easily Pay Your Bills On Time

June 7, 2010

Upon contemplating how to implement our first budget, I ran into an inevitable problem: how to cash flow monthly expenditures. Having worked in retail for large corporations, I understood that other people had a similar problem. When it came time to pay their bill, some would say, “Well, I don’t get paid until Friday. Can [...]

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Should Your Finances Be In Order Before Having Children?

April 27, 2010

You might be surprised by my response to this question. But in general, I don’t think you should plan having children around your finances or financial situation. In other words, I do not think finances have to be in order to have children. Now I know there are some exceptions in which a child couldn’t [...]

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How A Little Blogging Insider Information Can Help You Find Trusted Financial Information Online

February 3, 2010

Isn’t the web an amazing thing? This blog would certainly be a different thing without the net. Because there is so much information online it is occasionally hard to know where to go for accurate financial information. Peter just finished off a fantastic series on How To Make Money With A Blog. Non-bloggers can also [...]

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50 Personal Finance Bloggers To Watch In 2010

January 11, 2010

Darren Rowse over at ProBlogger.net recently hosted a guest post that gave a list of 30 Bloggers To Watch In 2010. After the post went live Darren gave a challenge to others in the blogosphere to make their own lists of bloggers to watch in their own niches. I decided to join in the fun! [...]

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