Creating and sticking to a personal budget is a vital part of personal financial planning. Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Greater Washington offers an easy, six-step method for arriving at a budget you can live with: Step 1 Determine your monthly income. Take into consideration your payroll deductions (health insurance or other group benefits, income [...]

“Bring all the tithes…so there will be food enough…if you do, I will open up the windows of heaven for you and pour out a blessing so great you won’t have room enough to take it in! Try it! Let me prove it to you!??? (Malachi 3:10). An email with an interesting challenge came to [...]

“God also bound Himself with an oath, so that those He promised to help would be perfectly sure and never need to wonder whether He might change His plans” (Hebrews 6:17). If there is one characteristic that might describe us all, more than any other trait, it would have to be that we are changeable [...]

“Women used to dream of Prince Charming marrying them and living happily ever after. Not so nowadays, Prince Charming either turns out to be a frog (2 out of 4 marriages in Canada end in divorce) or else he croaks (there are a million widows in Canada)!”  – Betty Sane and Lynn MacFarlane, Every Woman’s [...]

I just found an article you wrote on budgeting. You said to spend no more than 33% of your after-taxed salary on housing. I have to find an apartment and live on my own. I never had to do that before. I am struggling with a budget and not knowing what I can really afford [...]

Do you need a change in attitude? Let us pray for you. Indeed heaven and the highest heavens belong to the Lord your God, also the earth with all that is in it. (Deuteronomy 10:14) Today, look around you. Imagine a name label on everything you see, “On loan from Almighty God.” See how that changes [...]

by Katherine Kehler Also available as a podcast at: http://thelife.com/blogs/experience/kindle/2008/03/11/try-tithing-2/ Want to serve Christ, but don’t know how? Consider volunteering online! http://truthmedia.com/engage/ “Bring all the tithes…so there will be food enough…if you do, I will open up the windows of heaven for you and pour out a blessing so great you won’t have room enough [...]

Here are some real in-flight announcements that have been heard or reported: On landing the stewardess said, “Please be sure to take all your belongings.  If you’re going to leave anything, please make sure it’s something we’d like to have.” “There may be 50 ways to leave your lover, but there are only four ways out [...]

A couple of months ago I read an article about getting finances under control. According to the article, you can double the minimum monthly payment on a revolving charge and that account will be paid in full in 36 months regardless of the amount. How could that be possible? Especially considering how “minimum” most minimum monthly [...]

Here are ten aspects of financial management that you and your teens should discuss