Growing your business is always exciting, but excitement can turn to despair if you don’t grow the business in the right ways. If you want to get your spending in line, you need to tame these common budget-busters and learn to save on luxuries.

Borrowing money is never a good way to get a ministry going. Debt takes away more opportunities than it affords. Success with money requires value judgments and strategic planning. Will taking out a mortgage help or hurt this growing congregation?

A reader from Canada asks whether hard work brings blessings or just the grace of God: Does God want us to work really hard and achieve excellence in our workplace? Or does He want us to work and wait upon His blessings or timing for everything? This is an important question with an important answer. […]

Borrowing money is like playing Jenga with your financial life: Make one wrong move and everything will come crashing down. If you didn’t know any better, you’d think that borrowing money was the way to get ahead in life. After all, everyone else seems to be doing it. But when you examine reality through the […]

Whether you’re rich, poor or in between, you can be a slave to money. At its core, financial slavery is a problem of the heart and mind. When money comes to control our attitudes, it will soon control our actions as well. That road always leads to destruction. Fortunately, though, there are warning signs that […]

Having a big, beautiful house isn’t worth the financial stress that massive monthly mortgage payments create. A proper savings strategy can empower our money to handle anything from big houses to blingin’ rings. Simple budgets reflect predictable monthly needs, but to be effective in our planning, we need to learn to see into the future.

Strategy and discipline are your best friends when buying cars. Are your financial role models actually worth following? Some car dealers make themselves rich by selling crappy cars and terrible loans to the poor. Everyone loves that new car smell. But if you buy a new car off the showroom floor, you’re kissing thousands of […]

A Thrill of Hope No matter what you’re hoping for this Christmas, don’t give up. Because Hope has already come. Hope is out there, and it’s coming for you. There’s an amazing moment in the Christmas story that is easy to overlook. When Jesus was about a month old — after the shepherds and angels […]

If you’re upwardly mobile, financial slavery can still pull you down. God wants you to have some fun with the money He has given you. Here are five meaningful ways to do that. These ten common expenses have more to do with lifestyle than the do survival. Our young friend has a big spending problem. […]

Debt creates slavery where love should be instead. Three holiday lessons to carry in to 2014. How does an overworked dad get his family back on track after a medical emergency? Five warning signs that work has outgrown its proper place in your life.

For the vast majority of Americans, health insurance is about to get much, much more expensive. And that could have drastic consequences on the economy, even in industries far outside of medicine. We try to avoid getting too political here at God, Money & Me, but every now and then a political issue comes up […]

The risks of borrowing money far outweigh the potential payoff of leveraging your assets to invest in the stock market. Retirement may seem a lifetime away, but planning for it now will help to ensure that your future is blessed and prosperous. Banks can help you buy houses, but it’s important to save enough to […]

It’s been a long time since I’ve posted on God, Money & Me. Too long, in fact. You may remember this faith-based blog about personal finance. I started the site back in 2012 to document a personal journey I was taking through the Bible to discover what God had to say about money and how […]

How bad is America’s credit card problem? We’re hooked on this stuff, and we can’t give it up… at least not without a fight. It’s easy to justify our borrowing by saying that everybody’s doing it. But are they? Your mother first noticed it when you were about 18 months old — on the playground […]