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Every year, thousands of Americans start small businesses. And every year, thousands of those business fail. In fact, around 50% of all new businesses fail within five years. Why? There are many reasons — some businesses are built on crummy ideas, others are brought down by economic turmoil, and still others are run by incompetent […]

If you’re a Christian with a heart for ministry, it’s important to make sure that you have the right attitudes about money. Because wrong attitudes can stand between you and the power of God in your life. Although we don’t often think of things this way, it’s all too easy to become slave to money. […]

If you knew that a certain habit or action had a direct, positive impact on Jesus Himself, would you do it more? If so, perhaps it’s to get serious about caring for the poor. The Bible gives us an abundance of reasons why we should devote some of our time and resources to caring for […]

Debt creates slavery where love should be instead. Read More » When making a big purchase or expensive repair, it pays to get quotes and ideas from more than one company. Read More » Generosity is a hallmark of a thriving Christian life. Read More » Money can deceive you and choke out God’s fruit […]

There’s an indelible link between money and authority. In order to be effective in one, you must be effective in the other. You may think that this is obvious; after all, it seems like the people who have the money are always in charge. It’s easy for us to draw the conclusion that money begets […]

Thinking of signing lease to get your next new car at attractive monthly payments? Please, don’t buy the leasing lie! If you read our last post in this series about how buying new cars is for suckers, you may think that you can outsmart the system by leasing a new car. After all, a lease […]

How do you turn five bags of gold into ten? Unless you’re King Midas himself, there’s only one way to do it: Going to work… and working hard! Studying what the Bible says about money has taught me a lot about the concept of stewardship. God gave us everything we have, and He wants us to […]

Ebeneezer Scrooge learned it the hard way: The only way to escape greed is by learning to give. It took one seriously unpleasant Christmas Eve for Scrooge to realize how much his greed had come to control his life, and how much of an impact it was having on the people around him. Once he […]

Not every insurance product on the market today is a good buy — in fact, some of them are downright crazy. Having good insurance is an important part of building a stable financial life. It can help to make you financially whole in case a disaster claims your car or your home; help pay for […]

In the summer of 2004, an investor named Peter Thiel met a young technology entrepreneur, and decided to invest $500,000 in his new company (valuing the company at just under $5 million). For that investment, he got 10.2% equity in the company. Eight years later, the company went public, offering shares to investors on the […]

Via Flickr, by user Will Folsom. Used under Creative Commons License. Some of the greatest expenses that we ever encounter in life are also some of life’s most worthy causes. So is it okay to borrow money for a really, really good reason? A lot of well educated folks understand the pitfalls of “consumer debt,” […]

Via Flickr, by user quacktaculous. Used under Creative Commons License. So you’re ready to become master of your financial life, and you know that the first step in doing that is to make a budget. That’s great. So what do you need to get started? A pencil, a pad of paper and a calculator. Budgeting […]

Welcome to Questions and Answers, a new section of God, Money and Me where we’re answering questions submitted by readers on Facebook, Twitter and here on the site. If you have a question about faith or personal finance, click here to submit it. We’ll answer your question in an upcoming post. —— Question: Do you believe that […]

If you want to make some money in life, go find a way to serve somebody. Today’s world economy is complex and multifaceted, and it would be easy to talk about the subtleties of money and finance for days. And though there is plenty of interesting stuff to discover, the world’s most fundamental financial principle […]