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This is an encouraging and motivating blog written by Pastor Larry Jones. He writes a lot about stewardship, personal motivation and success. This blog was recently selected as one of the Top 20 Christian Financial websites by Bob Lotich at the Chris
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Take A Financial Health Day! - Part 3
Today, I took my third financial health day in the last four weeks. Many of the actions I have taken in recent weeks were ideas that I picked up from Ramit Sethi's blog and book of the same name, I Will Teach You To Be Rich. I highly recommend this...
The importance of insurance in a healthy financial plan
Last week in my post on the 14 Major Components of a Health Financial Plan, five of the fourteen components deal with important insurance products to have in place. These various insurance products are important to protect your family finances aga...
Organizing your financial planning documents
Now that you are hard at work this week getting your personal financial planning together, you may be wondering what documents you should gather together and where you should store them.Where should I store my financial planning documents?Before you ...
Have you even graduated to training wheels in your giving?
The Flow of MoneyIn Monday's post on the 14 Major Components of a Healthy Financial Plan, I mentioned that charitable giving is important to a healthy financial plan. You know, money is a lot like the flow of water. Water that is in constant motion ...
National Financial Planning Week | October 5-11
If anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for his immediate family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever. (1 Timothy 5:8, NIV)"His master replied, 'Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful wit...
Take a Financial Health Day! - Part 2
Today, I wanted to post a quick update to my previous Take a Financial Health Day post over a week and a half ago.This morning, I took about 3 hours to finish up some final details on my Financial Health Day which included:Official submission to la...
Take a financial health day!
This video contains the following:Joking AroundA few weeks ago, a buddy and I were joking around about taking "mental health days" at his workplace. He was telling me about how he will regularly take these days off from work when he's stressed or ove...
Rule #1 - Don't lose money!
Rule #1 explained High-powered investors such as Benjamin Graham, Warren Buffet, and Phil Town have all invested using one primary rule - don't lose money! You can read more about Rule #1 investing in Phil Town's book.What if we took the Rule #1 ...
The Michael Jackson Estate - saved by the power of residual income
Image via WikipediaIn my previous post on Michael Jackson, I had mentioned that Michael had become the poster child of what not to do with your money due to his almost $500 million of debt at the time of his death.Since his death, Michael Jackson's E...
Michael Jackson - King of Pop is now the King of Debt
Image via WikipediaMichael Jackson is now the poster child for what not to do with your money.The whole world was shocked to hear of the sudden, unexpected death of pop singer Michael Jackson this past Thursday, June 25, 2009, at the age of 50.In the...
Moderation in personal finances
Image by I-1326 via FlickrModeration is better than muscle, self-control better than political power. (Proverbs 16:32, The Message) The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity. - SenecaOut of moderation a pure happiness spri...
Emergency Funds - lack of faith?
Image by The Library of Virginia via FlickrIs creating an emergency fund for your family finances a lack of faith in Almighty God? My general answer to this question would be that it depends on the overall attitude of those building up such a fund.If...
Do not be conformed to the world
So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do...
Financial planning like a millionaire
When Dave Ramsey talks about personal money management, whether it's through his radio show, FPU, Live Events, or books, one HUGE emphasis he makes time and time again is that people need to think like rich people and do rich people stuff when it com...
Giving like no one else
Dave Ramsey has a famous quote "Live like no one else, so later you can live like no one else." Occasionally, he tags the phrase with "...and give like no one else."Living like no one else and becoming wise money managers enables us to:Tithe consiste...
The equation for unstoppable momentum
On his radio program, Dave Ramsey often talks about the following equation:Fi x G = MHere's how this equation is translated:Fi = Focused intensityx = multiplied byG = GodM = unstoppable MomentumIf you desire unstoppable momentum in any area of your l...
