Bible and Money Page Updated | My 10 Favorite Bible and Money Posts

by Craig

Today I just want to give you a quick update to let you know that I’ve recently updated my Bible and Money page.  The Bible and Money page is a collection of most of the Bible and Money articles I’ve published on this blog.  The more articles I write, the more selective I am about [...]

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Debt Snowball Explained | How To Pay Off Debt Using the Debt Snowball

by Craig

I thought we’d better sneak this post in before it gets too warm – a snowball is always easier to visualize in the winter. Editor’s Note: What a great line, eh?  Unfortunately, I wrote this post months ago, but since it was such a good line, I decide to keep it in this post even [...]

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Expensive Shopping is Good | How To Shop For Value, Not Price

by Craig

For a long time I’ve been on the frugal or cheap fence.  One day I think frugal accurately describes me, and then the next day I jump ship and find myself firmly planted in the cheap camp. Here’s another question we can ask to help differentiate between frugal and cheap. Do you buy things based [...]

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Interested in Personal Finance? Want a Writing Job?

by Craig

I want to hire some writers for projects unrelated to Money Help For Christians.  Ongoing Writing Position: I’d like to hire a writer who is (1) a Canadian living in Canada, (2) a Christian, and (3) knowledgeable on the topic of personal finance (from a Canadian perspective).  I’m not looking for a professional freelancer, just [...]

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Considerations for Churches Before and During a Building Project

by Craig

Here is a trustworthy statement – how people spend personal funds is typically how they spend church funds. I’m a frugal guy.  When I had a church budget as a youth minister, I always came in under budget.  Now as a missionary, I rarely spend all of my working funds.  There are other people I [...]

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Why We Converted Our Traditional IRA To A Roth IRA

by Craig

As you probably already know, 2010 is a great time to convert your Traditional IRA to a Roth IRA.  The year is now more than half over, so I thought I’d share my thoughts on the Roth IRA Conversion. In 2010, you can convert a Traditional IRA to a Roth IRA even if you make [...]

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Can You Afford Your Car Payments? Can You Afford the House?

by Craig

One of the negative results of borrowing money and being upside down in debt is that there might come a time when you need to come face to face with some very tough decisions: Can I afford to keep the house? Can I afford to keep the car payments? The Danger of a High House [...]

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My Blog Broke | Weekly Roundup

by Craig

I want to apologize to anyone who left a comment at MH4C between Monday and Wednesday.  Unfortunately, I was trying to upgrade a different site and I experienced some problems.  My host told me that I could wipe out everything from the last 4 days and reset things.  I thought that only applied to my [...]

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Student Loan Debt Forgiveness | For Ministers & Non-Profit Workers

by Craig

The following is a guest post by Cary McCall.  While reading a post at One In Jesus I saw Cary made a comment about debt forgiveness for ministers.  I asked him to explain more and he sent me this post.  I read it and even got permission from the website owner, Jay Guin to use [...]

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Credit Card Consolidation & 0% Balance Transfers | Does It Really Help?

by Craig

On a recent post telling how to deal with credit card debt problems, I shared some advice and resources for getting out of debt.  In that same post, Darren (from More Than Finances) asked what I thought about 0% credit card transfers.  I gave a quick answer and thought I’d deal with it in more [...]

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