Archive for the ‘Biblical Finance’ Category

Money principles from the church bulletin

Sunday, July 9th, 2006

Our church bulletin this week had a bulletin from Focus on the Family. The bulletin contained some money principles from a Christian perspective:Debt can sentence you to a lower standard of living in the future.  Quite true: if you pay off only the minimum balance on your credit card, ...

Big Tipper

Monday, March 20th, 2006

What a great story: Pregnant Teen Waitress Gets $1,000 Tip Actually, the total payment was $1,000 -- $26.35 for the meal and $973.65 for the tip. This is a 3,695% tip! Gifts like this are touching. When one person's definition of pocket change is different from another's by a few zeroes, it ...

Excellent post on tithing

Monday, January 9th, 2006

Tithing is the practice of giving 10% of one's income. It is today usually associated with giving to one's church. About five years ago, when I started dating the woman who would be my wife, giving to the church was something I hadn't done in a very long time. ...

Some anti-materialism posts

Friday, December 23rd, 2005

There is so much pressure this time of year to shop, shop, spend, spend, charge, charge. I used to just get totally overloaded with all of the input, freeze up until December 24th, and then go to one store on December 24th to shop for almost everybody. The ...