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7 Lies About Money That Can Kill Your Financial Future

April 16, 2010

Over the past few years through writing for this blog and helping to facilitate Dave Ramsey‘s Financial Peace University class I’ve heard a lot of misconceptions that people have about money. These are beliefs and ideas about money that people hold deep in their psyche that tell them how they should approach money. They help [...]

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Financial Stewardship: The Forgotten Component

April 6, 2010

Most of us Christian personal finance bloggers will often remind you have the importance of good financial stewardship. Most readers know that financial stewardship requires knowing God is the owner of all things, including money. God requires us to manage resources wisely for His Godly purpose for our lives. Forgotten Component Of Financial Stewardship But [...]

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Is Math The King Of The Financial Jungle?

February 18, 2010

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Here a financial myth that I’ve believed for far too long: Myth: If it makes the most math sense it must be the right choice. Reality: We must work the math system for a period of time so that we can ignore the math. You cannot ignore the math for your entire life. In fact, [...]

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Tips On How To Obey “Thou Shalt Not Covet”

February 4, 2010

This is a guest post from Mr Credit Card from askmrcreditcard.com. If you are looking for a credit card, check out his list of best credit cards recommendations. A few weeks ago, my Pastor from church was preaching about “Thou shalt not covet” – one of the Ten Commandments. He said that it was not [...]

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How To Teach Young Children About Money

December 8, 2009

How Soon Is Too Soon To Teach A Kid About Money? While more knowledgeable educators and child psychologists would love to quibble over the finite details of this question, my response is less nuanced – as soon as possible between the ages of 3 and 4. Since it is hard to predict when your kids [...]

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Overcoming Money Issues In Marriage

November 18, 2009

Recently, my pastor gave a message about the leading causes of money issues in marriage. He referred to them as “money minefields” that if not dealt with (or defused) lead to problems in marriage and much of the time divorce. After listening to the message the second time this past weekend, I think it is one [...]

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Wealth And Contentment: Two Peas In A Pod

November 3, 2009

The pursuit of wealth is one of the greatest illusions of our time. We think we will be wealthy when we come to a place in our lives when we can do whatever we want with money. One might imagine this to be the freedom illustrated by the phrase “financial peace”. Wealth, however, will never [...]

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Make Extra Money By Doing Graphic Design Work On The Side

October 28, 2009

One thing that I am a huge proponent of is trying not to rely too much on one stream of income for your family. Why not instead create multiple streams of income, whereby if one of them dries up, you’ll still have several others that you can depend on? PT over at PTMoney.com is launching [...]

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What The Movie Wall Street Can Teach Us About Greed

October 27, 2009

One of my all-time favorite movies is Wall Street. It is directed by Oliver Stone and stars Charlie Sheen and Michael Douglas. If you’ve never seen the movie, the Internet Movie Database (IMDB), has a short synopsis of the movie. Bud Fox is a Wall Street stockbroker in early 1980′s New York with a strong desire [...]

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Making Extra Money In Your Free Time With Cash Crate: A Review Of The Service One Year In

October 8, 2009

About a year ago I wrote a post detailing how I was making some extra money for our household by using the “Get Paid To” website called Cash Crate. Today I decided to write a quick update to let everyone know how Cash Crate has gone for me the last year. What Is Cash Crate? [...]

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How Saving for Tomorrow Improves the Quality of Life Today

October 6, 2009

One of the common criticisms of saving money is that some folks think that saving for tomorrow completely defeats the purpose of money. These are the ones with a live for today philosophy. The live for today philosophy claims, you could save your money for tomorrow and then have a heart attack and die. What [...]

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Changing How You Think About Money And Seeking God’s Direction With Your Finances

September 17, 2009

This is a guest post from Ryan Yates, owner of www.hillthread.com, a non-profit Christian T-Shirt online store. Hill Thread was created to spread the Truth of the Gospel, to encourage discipleship and spiritual growth, and to raise excitement, awareness, and financial support for missions. Learn more about Hill Thread’s mission. Mission trips have a way [...]

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Ways To Watch TV Without Paying An Arm And A Leg For Cable Or Satellite

June 23, 2009

Television Can Be Expensive (It Doesn’t Have To Be) One way that my wife and I have saved money over the years is that while most of our friends have cable or satellite TV, we’ve never paid subscription costs to receive TV programming. That means that we are saving ourselves a good chunk of money [...]

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Personal Finance Bible Verse Of The Day: Not Paying Your Debts

June 18, 2009

It is better that you should not vow than that you should vow and not pay – Ecclesiastes 5:5 In this day and age it seems to have become more and more common for people to live above their means, and to use credit and debt to increase their lifestyle. Instead of saving up for [...]

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