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Many of the following articles were graciously provided by Bob Lotich at Christian Personal Finance Blog and his writing team.

• General Financial Topics
  • Financial Difficulties: Finding Peace in the Storm
  • 7 Tips To Improve Your Financial Competence
  • 6 Strategies for Improving Your Finances
  • 4 Steps to Get Your Finances Under Control
  • 6 Financial Mistakes and How to Recover Quickly
  • 3 Sure-Fire Ways To Fail Financially
  • Juggling The Baby Steps
  • What I’m Financially Responsible For
  • 4 Habits of Millionaires
  • Successful Stewardship
  • How do you Define Rich
  • Financial Stress

• Specific/Seasonal Topics
  
  • 5 Tips For Saving Money During Vacations
  • 10 Holiday Money Mistakes
  • 6 Tips for a Debt Free Christmas
  • 7 Tips To Ask Your Boss for a Pay Raise
  • 10 Ways To Save 50 dollars
  • What Is The Easiest Way to Save Money
  • A Taxing Time of Year
  • Can You Get a Good Paying Job Without a Degree
  • Difference between Multilevel Marketing
  • The Hardest Financial Habit to Break
  • What Your Credit Score Is Made Of
  • What to do with a Lump Sum of Money
  • How to Spend a Bonus Properly
  • Should You Sell Your Car or Repair It
  • 9 Ways To Lower Your Heating Bill
  • 10 Tips for Surviving a Layoff
  • The Best Time to Purchase Gas
  • The Truth About Car Payments
  • Why Should You Buy Disability Insurance
  • What Is Disability Insurance
  • 7 Reasons to Review Your Life Insurance Policy
  • Advantages Of A Living Trust vs. Will
  • Buying Life Insurance for Your Parents

• Budgeting
• 10 Free Household Budget Spreadsheets
• 15 Free Budgeting Tools
• Setting A Monthly Budget
• Living Within Your Budget
• Frugal Money Management Tips with Limited Income
• 10 Tips for a Better Budget
• 5 Essential Budget Items for Couples
• 5 Ways to Destroy Your Budget
• 8 Ways We Dramatically Reduced Our Expenses This Month
• Envelope Budgeting
• Handling Occasional Expenses
• How Large Should Your Emergency Fund Really Be
• What Defines An Emergency Anyway
• How to Handle Overdrawing Your Checking Account
• Is Your Budget a Straitjacket or Your Best Friend
• Successful Budgeting for Students
• How To Discourage Yourself From Overspending
• 5 Tips For Going Out To Eat On A Budget

• Marriage, Family, & Money
  • The Truth About Money and Relationships
  • How to Talk to Your Spouse about Debt and Money
  • 7 Tips To Involve Your Spouse In The Family Finances
  • 14 Rules For Money Fights With Your Spouse
  • Are you a Saver or a Spender?
  • How to Deal with Savers and Spenders
  • How to Secretly Spend in Your Marriage
  • Seeing the World in Pink and Blue
  • The Danger Zone loaning to relatives
  • Loaning Money To Family: A Good Idea or Not?
  • Beware Of Bears: Talking to your souse about money
  • How Combining Your Finances Can Improve Your Marriage
  • Should Christians Have PreNups
  • Helping vs. Enabling
  • 6 financial goals for 20-Somethings
  • Do Newlyweds Need Life Insurance
  • Dollar Value Put on Marriage

• Kids and Money
  • How to Teach Kids About Money
  • Teaching Kids About Money
  • Children and Allowance
  • 10 Tips For Throwing A Birthday Party On A Budget
  • Deciding If You Can Afford Christian School Tuition
  • 5 First Grade Money Lessons That Many Adults Have Forgotten
  • 6 Tips for Helping Your Child With That First Car Purchase
  • 23 Ways for Teens to Make Money

• Debt
  • Is It Possible to Manage Credit Cards Well
  • Beating Credit Card Debt
  • Credit Card Traps
  • Crushing Credit Card Debt
  • Why you should get out of debt
  • 11 Tips for Getting Out of Debt
  • 6 Steps to Reducing Your Credit Card Interest Rates
  • The Secret to Staying Out of Debt
  • 9 Tips for Managing Medical Debt
  • 5 Stupid Ways to Pay Off Your Debt
  • Is Debt Consolidation a Good Idea?
  • Dangers of Debt Settlement
  • Debt woes start early

• The Bible and Money Management
  • Loving God More Than Money
  • 7 Scriptures On The Wise Use Of Money
  • 3 Things Moses Teaches Us About Money
  • 5 Bible Verses About Money Every Christian Should Know
  • Would Jesus Have an Emergency Fund
  • Biblical retirement?
  • Can you Fit Through the Eye of a Needle?
  • Love It Or Love It Not: Money
  • Should You Give to Beggars?
  • The Story of The Widow’s Mite
  • 5 Common Reasons Why Christians Give
  • John D Rockefeller on Tithing
  • Should You Tithe While Trying to Get Out of Debt?

• Dealing with Mortgages
  • Mortgage Payments Sending You Reeling?
  • How Much Can You Afford To Pay For A House?
  • Could We-Should We Pay Off Our Home Early?
  • How to Pay Off Your Mortgage Early?
  • It is Wrong to Walk Away From Your Mortgage?
  • What are the Warning Signs of Foreclosure?
  • Avoiding Foreclosure
  • Classics Reverse Mortgages
  • Reverse Mortgages: Advantages and Disadvantages
  • Reverse Mortgages: Get the Facts

• Investing
  • How To Select A Financial Advisor?
  • 6 Retirement Planning Tips For Middle Age
  • Investing God Way
  • 8 Investment Principles to Live By
  • Guide To Investing: 7 Deadly Mistakes
  • How And When To Start Saving For Retirement
  • My 401k Has Lost a Lot of Money!
  • What is a Money Merge Account?
  • 10 Things Rich Christians Must Do With Their Money
  • Is it Wise To Borrow Money To Invest?
  • 8 Reasons Why The Best College Savings Plan is a 529