Learning Personal Finance: A Guide to Successful Financial Health (Part I)

by Craig Ford February 8, 2012

Today I’ll be reflecting on what our family has done over the last 12 years to help us enjoy stress free personal finances. This is not a brag fest, but rather a step-by-step story of what has worked for us. 1. Start Working Young and Saving Young When I was in grade 7 or 8, [...]

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The Audience Matters: Introducing You to the Ideal MH4C Reader (New Series)

by Craig Ford February 6, 2012

It’s time once again for a series of posts. Most blogs (including this one) are composed of a series of ‘thoughts of the day’. The disadvantage to you, the reader, is that you miss out on the opportunity to fully grasp the author’s full overview of money in a succinct and connected fashion. That’s why [...]

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Monthly Roundup : Activities, Books, and Articles

by Craig Ford February 3, 2012

This last month included one of the most unproductive weeks in my entire life. It was primarily the result of a massively infected boil on my back that resulted in 3 days in bed and another 4 really slow days of recovery.  Sorry if that’s too much information.  (I decided against including pictures.)   I returned [...]

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When a Pumpkin Is More Valuable than a $1,000

by Craig Ford February 1, 2012

We don’t do it intentionally, but we do it. We mislabel and falsely recognize acts of giving as generous. I made a contribution to something recently, and the person responded back by saying thanks for the ‘generous gift’. While I appreciate the effort to honor my gift, it made me realize that we misunderstand generosity. [...]

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How Much of My Income is Mine to Spend On Me?

by Craig Ford January 30, 2012

The post title is a summary of a question I received. It’s an extremely difficult question to answer. The question goes on to ask about how one can purchase luxury items when there are people just down the street who are starving. How Much of My Income is Mine to Spend on Me? In an [...]

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What Your Financial Advisor Won’t Tell You About How to Successfully Reduce Your Nest Egg

by Craig Ford January 25, 2012

The longer I maintain www.moneyhelpforchristians.com, the less money it seems like I’m going to have. From the very first days of this blog, I was open about the fact that I wanted to learn  what the Bible had to say about money (as opposed to assuming that I already knew). I used to have a [...]

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How Your Income is a Burden and Not Just a Blessing

by Craig Ford January 22, 2012

People who have a job talk about how they are blessed. People who make a lot of money talk about how they are blessed. People who can provide for the needs of their kids talk about how they are blessed. As Christians we must always recognize the double edged sword when it comes to making [...]

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Transforming Your Financial Diet [Limited Time Low Pricing]

by Craig Ford January 18, 2012

How should Christians manage their money? How do we find a balance between giving, saving, and spending? What is God ultimately calling us to do with money? I, like many of you, have been wrestling with these questions for a long time. These questions only intensified when I moved to Papua New Guinea, a developing [...]

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2011 Goals Review, 2012 Plans, My New Ministry as a Missional Entrepreneur

by Craig Ford January 16, 2012

At the start of 2011, I shared three big goals. They are as follows: Goal #1: By Dec. 2011, I wanted to average as much income online as I did from my full-time job. Less than two weeks later I followed up with a post that said this was a bad goal. Why? The priority [...]

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The Blessing Journal | How to Be Thankful Even When You’re Not Feeling It

by Craig Ford January 11, 2012

The following is a guest post by Jeri Ford (my lovely wife). What I love about this post is that it openly discusses a struggle we all have – ignoring the blessings of God. Sometimes people write about practices in theory. However, I can vouch for the fact that every night before praying with Jeri [...]

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