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Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year. -- Horace Mann

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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

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