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Spiritual Secrets to Successful Money Management – Part 1 of 7: Ask God For Help
Most people in the Western World ignore God when it comes to money matters. Really? God? Which God? There’s only one Creator. He is sovereign. He understands everything divine and human—including all money matters. The Lord Jesus Christ, who physically rose from the dead (a historic fact), is God Almighty, being co-equal with the Father…
Read MoreGod likes His work (3 of 3)
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…
Read MoreDon’t Work in the Dark (2 of 3)
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…
Read MoreBack to Work but Better this Time! (1 of 3)
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…
Read MoreTo Tithe Or Not To Tithe? (Article 6 of 6)
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…
Read MoreDoes Insurance Provide Security? (Article 5 of 6)
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,…
Read MoreWinning the Wrong Game (Article 4 of 6)
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…
Read MorePraying for Money (Article 3 of 6)
When does God get most prayers coming his way? That’s easy – the day before the lottery. Now I suppose that some prayer is better than no prayer, but we need to remember that the Lord told us how to pray long before lotteries came along. As a matter of fact, our Heavenly Father is…
Read MoreHow Closed Minded Are You? (Article 2 of 6)
Each of us has to ask ourselves a very important question. I alluded to it in the August and again in October. Am I living in a closed system or an open system? Now what on earth does that mean? By the word “system” I refer to a process that has known inputs, operations and…
Read MoreIntelligent Design in Finance and Economics? (Article 1 of 6)
Years before I became an accountant I wanted to become a nuclear physicist. Imagine that – what a switch! I loved science. I wanted to know how and why things worked. In high school I majored in science and won the science award. Then I came to know the Creator of it all, that is,…
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