Comments on: Using God as a financial plan.

By: thoughtriver

thoughtriver — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:01:32 +0000

"buying an Xbox instead of paying off your credit card bills because you think having it will help you save money because you won’t be going out as much because you’ll be home playing it"

yikes, I have done this one in my 20s

By: Curtis Honeycutt

Curtis Honeycutt — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 02:21:44 +0000

Agreed. Crocs are like the snuggie of footwear. Wearing them says either "I'm a chef; I can wear these." or "I give up."

By: Eno

Eno — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 15:07:03 +0000

It's actually Biblical… see malachi 3:6-12, and Philippians 4…

By: Eno

Eno — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 15:03:58 +0000

And… it's quite possible to be "poor", and yet, not poor in spirit.

By: Eno

Eno — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 15:02:33 +0000

"poor in spirit". Why do people misquote Bible verses to suit themselves???

By: k8

k8 — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:50:00 +0000

Moses, switch to Tevas!

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:52:00 +0000

I’m just going through some of your past posts & my wife and I happened to just start a Crown Financial Bible Study…one of the first things we learned was that the Bible has 2035 verses in it regarding finances…amazing. God knew that finances would be our biggest challenge to truly following him and allowing Him complete control of our lives.

By: camille nicole

camille nicole — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:58:00 +0000

Ah!
My first car was a Mazda 626…it had a transmission problem. Accelerate too fast it would roar loudly at you until you took your foot off the gas and calmed it down.
Poor car.
I accidentally smashed her face in by rear-ending someone. It was the end of her…
RIP.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:40:00 +0000

the only people the bible specifically says we’re supposed to look after is widows and orphans.

By: GFish

GFish — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:22:00 +0000

Ben said: "giving you the same financial advice as your grandma, only we kick her in the face while we do it."

This had me laughing so hard, envisioning Dave Ramsey kicking some old lady in the face (which I don't think he would do).

I love when people spend all their money and then say God will provide for their future, or they say things like... the early church helped each other out, so the church should help us out when we're old. (Sounds too much like social security to me...)

I like to respond with the "guy drowning story" that Christians like. You know, the one where the guy has been ship wrecked and prays to God to rescue him while he's treading water.... along comes a person in a boat that asks him if he needs help. The guy responds, "no thanks, I'm waiting for God to save me". Then in some versions he drowns... the moral being that God provided the boat to save the guy and he didn't realize it.

Is your money like the boat? God has provided it to you already, what are you doing with it?