Aug
3
“Money money money money, MONEY!”
“Some people got to have it…Hey, Hey, Hey - some people really need it…Hey, listen to me, y’all do thangs, do thangs, do thangs - bad thangs with it
Well, you wanna do thangs, do thangs, do thangs - good thangs with it…talkin’ about cash money, money…Talkin’ bout cash money - dollar bills y’all…”
Jul
31
Breaking the chains of debt is key to gaining financial freedom.
Where do you stand on the concept of debt? It is huge issue in our culture today with proponents pushing both sides of the debate. And probably no Biblical issue about money has been more widely and passionately discussed than this one. We can all find justification for our particular position from the pages of the Bible or from just an everyday practical, money management standpoint.
So, the purpose of this post today is not to expound on and discuss the virtues or vices of debt. We will have plenty of time to do that at a later juncture. Rather it is to help us understand this one irrefutable core concept from Scripture…
Jul
27
We have been working our way through the seven core concepts or themes found in the Bible that deal with the topic of money. Today, its time for us to go to work, so grab your lunch pail and your tool belt. Here we go.
There is an interesting story in the book of Nehemiah. Nehemiah has been granted permission by Artaxerxes, King of Persia, to return to Jerusalem and rebuild the wall around the city that lies in ruins. Read More
Jul
24
My best friend is really different, personality wise, than me. One of us is outgoing…the other is reserved. One is a get-things-done-now driver…the other more patient. One likes orderliness…the other doesn’t mind if some things are laying around “out of their place.” One of us is more emotional…the other more logical. One of us is a saver, the other a spender. One of us wants brand new things…the other doesn’t mind if its been used by someone else before. Read More
Jul
20
The Bible is full of relationship issues. In the first 13 chapters of Genesis alone we see a man who can’t say “no” to a woman when offered a piece of fruit, the murder of a sibling, a man deciding it was OK to marry more than one wife, humanity’s spiritual relationship with God being so strained man is wiped off the earth (save for Noah and his family), and two relatives quarreling over land use for their livestock. Ugh…What a mess! In the words of Jerry Seinfeld, “People…they’re the worst.”
Jul
17
All of us want to finish our lives with honor and dignity. We want to look back over the years that we have been privileged to live hear on earth with a sense of pride, accomplishment and satisfaction that our lives have been well spent. We want to have reached our goals and contributed in some small way to the lives of those around us. We want to have been winners at life.
Wasn’t that the goal of the builder in Luke 14:28?
Jul
13
George Bailey is beside himself at the prospects of living here.
Recently, a few miles from where I live, a house was sold for a minor sum of money after sitting vacant for years. The buyer, instead of choosing to live in the property, had the house bulldozed to the ground. Now this doesn’t seem like that uncommon of a thing to have happen to a property. After all, you have to make way for new construction, right? The irony of the situation, however, is that it was new construction the buyer had leveled…well, at least it was new 7 years ago when they started building this beautiful, upper six-figure mansion of a house on a perfect, 5-acre corner lot of country land. No one had ever lived in that house. The original owner/builder only managed to get it about 75% completed.
