Posts by Tom Lipp

After all… it’s lucky seven. Let the weight wait. This year the focus is finances. My New Years’ resolution will be to get my money under control. How do I start? Start with your spending. When my parents immigrated to Canada from Eastern Europe in 1958 there was no government health care and no Canada…

This was the big question for Time Magazine in its September 18th edition. So what’s the answer? Time went on to say, A growing number of Protestant evangelists raise a joyful, YES!  But the idea is poison to other, more mainstream pastors. Which group is right? One group calls it paradise the other, poison. Some…

Many financial problems can be traced back to poor work habits. How can we get more good things done in less time?  Of all the books written about personal productivity I have not seen one that recommends God’s way of working found in the creation account. What a shame that we pay so little attention…

Often people look for a magic solution to their financial problems but refuse to change personal work habits. That’s a big mistake. Last month we learned that many serious financial problems can be traced back to poor work practices. Money without a wise work ethic does more damage than good. The best worker is God…

Oh groan… vacations are over. What a great summer – now it’s back to work. For most of us the year really starts in September. Work that four letter word – how do we handle it? For students it’s back to books. Studying can be exhausting. So how can we learn to work better? If…

Did you know that recently the federal government made it better for us to give to registered charities? Here’s how it works. If we own any marketable securities such as stocks, mutual funds or flow-through shares and donate them directly to the charity then we pay no tax on the capital gain and get a…

The longer I work as a financial planner the more clearly I see the differences between two schools of thought – – the NO GOD School and the KNOW GOD School. Tithing is a case in point. Most people who call themselves Christians don’t tithe. Most people who call themselves Christians are also unsatisfied with…

I have delayed the 6th article in my current series because of a troubling truth I stumbled over. That’s right stumbled over. 

Why buy insurance? Who likes paying premiums? Is insurance even Biblical? With tough questions like these, it’s little wonder I’ve avoided this topic. This is the fifth in a series of articles contrasting Biblical and Secular financial planning strategies. In past months we looked at intelligent design, open vs. closed economic systems, praying for money,…

She brutally murdered her roommate and then dismembered the corpse. He defrauded a Calgary charity for autistic children of $96,000. In another case a mother of four with no criminal record stole $350,000 from her employer. Why?  All these unrelated crimes had the same root cause: Gambling Addiction. There are thousands of Canadians with serious…