Bible Money Matters

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Personal Finance Bible Verse Of The Day: Repay Your Debts

It is better that you should not vow than that you should vow and not pay.  Ecclesiastes 5:5 This verse could be seen to apply to our current times quite well.   With our current housing and foreclosure crunch people have been taking out loans left and right, making vows to repay, and then not repaying.  […]

Personal Finance Bible Verse Of The Day: More Blessed To Give

In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’ Acts 20:35 In our current times, the phrase  “It is more blessed to give than to receive” is one […]

Ask The CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™: Inheritances And 401ks

I’ve been getting a lot of reader questions lately, asking what I think they should do when faced with certain situations. I’m always happy to give advice, but this week I thought I would go to a professional for answers.  In today’s post, I’ve asked Jeff Rose from Good Financial Cents to answer a couple […]

Personal Finance Bible Verse Of The Day: Giving Back

The earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof.  Psalm 24:1 As a person who is interested in personal finance, and the process of creating wealth, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about the topic.   You might even say that I’ve gotten a bit obsessive about it at times. One thing I’ve realized is […]

Personal Finance Bible Verse Of The Day: Never Satisfied With His Income

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 […]

Personal Finance Bible Verse Of The Day: Diversify Your Holdings

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 […]

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

Pascal’s Wager, an argument for belief in God, was formulated by 17th Century French Philosopher and Christian apologist Blaise Pascal. The “Wager” argues that if one lives as an agnostic, he is betting his life on the non-existence of God. If, upon death, he discovers that he was wrong, then his wager has cost him […]

Success Is Made By Changing Your Habits And Behaviors Gradually

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. […]

125 More People Personal Finance Junkies Should Follow On Twitter

Earlier this week in response to a post online I posted a list of “10 People All Personal Finance Junkies Should Follow On Twitter“.  The idea was to let people know about some must follow twitter users in the personal finance blogosphere who consistently make useful twitters, both about personal finance and other topics. The […]