Budgeting

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Establish an “On-Purpose” Cash Flow Plan!

Do you know that feeling you get when you put your hands in the pocket of your favorite pair of jeans and you find money? That is awesome isn’t? The crucial part of this new find is deciding what to do with it. Some would go and spend it on a cup of coffee at [...]

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Learning to Live on Less Than You Make

The second Biblical Financial principle was to start saving money. Today we introduce the third principle which is the key to saving money. This principle is very simple, but not always easy. In order to start saving money you have to stop spending everything your make. Understand God’s Ownership (Psalms 24:1) Learn to Save Money [...]

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Biblical Financial Principles

We teach a lot about personal finances at our church. Mainly because we know that when people have their finances under control, the other areas of their lives start falling into place. The stress at home seems to go away, the fighting over little things disappears, and kids get a lot more quality time with [...]

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Just say no?

During the 80′s and 90′s the phrase “Just say no!” was pushed as the newest idea in drug education. The idea was to teach kids that it was ok to ‘just say no’ to drugs. There was nothing wrong with telling the kid offering you a joint that you were too smart to smoke dope. [...]

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Finder’s Keeper’s

Remember being young and coming across something that didn’t belong to you, yet piqued your interest, and showed some promise of being beneficial. The phrase we used to claim the ‘found’ item was, “Finders Keepers, Losers Weepers”. Basically we found it, so we are going to keep it, and the person that lost it, is [...]

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Purchased our next vehicle

We have been saving for a replacement for my wife’s van for a while now. We were hoping to get another 6-7 months out of it, but as usual, God’s timing doesn’t always line up with ours. Because we were going to be buying the vehicle with cash, my wife had actually turned the whole [...]

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