Montel Williams” smiling face masks a pack of lending wolves who will only make bad money problems worse. Some car dealers make themselves rich by selling crappy cars and terrible loans to the poor. Money can cause tension in adult families, unless you keep your attitude in check.

Protect the people you love most by planning to provide for them after your gone. Putting all of your eggs in one basket is a dangerous investment strategy. Instead, diversify. This government-sponsored Ponzi scheme is robbing you of the potential to create wealth. Our super-sized homes are as dangerous for our wallets are super-sized meals […]

These ten common expenses have more to do with lifestyle than the do survival. It’s time to set the record straight on the lies that our culture has told us about debt and borrowing. Poverty is a form of financial slavery, but God gives us the key to break free… by working very, very hard. […]

Simple budgets reflect predictable monthly needs, but to be effective in our planning, we need to learn to see into the future. Many people suffer financially because they don’t know what they’re money is really doing. Wisdom from the Bible can help with that.

The way that God provides for your needs tomorrow may not be the same way that He has provided for you today. Everything that we have in life ultimately comes from God, who owns everything on earth and gives us the provisions to meet our needs. That provision happens in a host of different ways. […]

Call me the Ghost of Debt Yet to Come. In “A Christmas Carol,” it wasn’t so much the past or future that really moved Scrooge, but the specter of how the future would turn out should his miserly ways continue. And just as the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come showed Scrooge the horrible things […]

Within a month, I’ll be giving up my cable television service… and I’m preparing myself for the fact that it might hurt. But I’d rather be a free man learning to deal with the pangs of boredom than to be an entertained man who is a slave to luxury. Money and its trappings can make […]

Via Flickr by user Tim Green. Used under Creative Commons License Picture this: You’ve been imprisoned (unjustly) for the last five years. After some hard work and Shawshank Redemption style scheming, you’ve found a way out. Your plan is foolproof — you know when the guards change shifts, how to sneak out of the cell block, […]

In the church, leaders often warn Christian young people not to get into romantic entanglements with people who don’t share their faith. They do so based on II Corinthians 6:14: Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? This scripture makes […]

Here in the United States it’s Labor Day, the annual holiday when we all take off work to celebrate the heroic efforts of the Working Man (and Woman). And that got us to thinking: Is it possible to be a slave to work? Work is an essential element of each of our lives. After all, […]

Somewhere in the back of your mind or the pit of your stomach is a gnawing fear: What if someday everything falls apart? What if you run out of money? What if you can’t feed your family? What if you go broke? For some people, this is a very clear and imminent fear — if […]

In today’s socially conscious world, microlending can sound like a perfect paradigm: Give $100, help a poor woman in the Third World start a business, and eventually make a little bit of money in interest. In this kind of scenario everybody wins. Right? Wrong. Though many people get into microlending with noble intentions, those that […]

It’s a classic case of “monkey see, monkey do” — if the people all around you are excited about jumping into or out of a certain investment, you’re going to be tempted to do the same thing. Wisdom, however, will tell you to avoid the bandwagon effect. Investment is one of the best ways to […]

When you hear that call in your heart, it resounds throughout your whole being: God wants you for full-time ministry. It’s an exciting moment, but one that comes with a huge question: How are you going to pay for it? Whether you’re a pastor or other professional worker in a church, or you’re involved in […]