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Emergency Funds Make Your Life Better! (Or At Least More Stress Free)

January 29, 2009

I used to think that emergency funds really weren’t necessary, that they were just something that people who were overly cautious about money worried about. Why would i ever need to have one? After all, that’s what credit cards are for! If we ever have an emergency we’ll just put any expenses on the credit [...]

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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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Are You Making A Pascal’s Wager With Your Finances?

January 8, 2009

This is a guest post from Jeff Rose, an Illinois Certified Financial Planner(TM) and co-founder of Alliance Investment Planning Group. He is also the author of Good Financial Cents, a financial planning and investment blog. You can also learn more about Jeff at his website Jeff Rose Financial.

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“Pascal’s Wager”, an [...]

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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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Success Is Made By Changing Your Habits And Behaviors Gradually

December 10, 2008

The past year I’ve been learning a lot about money, how it is made and how it is often squandered. I’ve had to change the way I think about our finances, and make corrections in the way we’ve been living so that we can be successful down the road.

Making these changes hasn’t been easy. [...]

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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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