July 2010

Manage Your Money the Biblical Way – Part 1

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The picture above is actually gold-wrapped chocolate coins, and reminded me of a great church story. It happened one year just a few minutes before the start of our Christmas musical drama.   Some of our kids had found the stash of gold chocolate coins, which was to be the first of the Three King’s gifts to Jesus. [...]

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Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

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If I asked every person in this crowd whether they would like to be a millionaire, I think every one of them would raise their hand. We seem to want to be millionaires – at least in theory, but are we willing to actually do what it takes?  Would it help you to know some [...]

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How to Win the Financial Game

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Disclaimer – this is not a post about how to play a better Monopoly game!  Although I couldn’t resist the games analogy forever, as we sport and game incessantly in our household (function of all the men, husband referee, etc).  Since all my children played soccer, of course the current craze is World Cup soccer, [...]

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How to Build Savings After Hard Times

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I did an Intelligent Investing Radio Show awhile back with answers to listener submitted questions.  This question was a really good one, and well worth repeating in a blog post.  This is for all of you who have ever watched your savings go down and down to nothing, whether it was because of a job [...]

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