make your cents make sense
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Step #1: Tell the Truth
Step #2: Get Past the Past
Step #3: Make Your Cents Make Sense
Our Goal:
Bring our money under the
authority of the Kingdom of God.
“No one can serve two masters, for
either he will hate the one and love the
other, or he will be devoted to the one
and despise the other. You cannot
serve God and money.”
- Matthew 6:24
For even when we were with you, we
would give you this command: If
anyone is not willing to work, let him
not eat.
- 2 Thessalonians
3:10
U.S. household consumer debt profile:
Average credit card debt: $15,611
Average mortgage debt: $155,192
Average student loan debt: $32,264
In total, American consumers owe:
$11.74 trillion in debt
$882.6 billion in credit card debt
$8.14 trillion in mortgages
$1.13 trillion in student loans
(taken from
www.nerdwallet.com)
“No one can serve two masters, for
either he will hate the one and love the
other, or he will be devoted to the one
and despise the other. You cannot
serve God and money.”
- Matthew 6:24
“Money is dirt.”
- Dietrich
Bonhoeffer
“Do not lay up for yourselves
treasures on earth, where moth and
rust destroy and where thieves break
in and steal, but lay up for yourselves
treasures in heaven, where
...thieves do not break in and steal. For
where your treasure is, there your
heart will be also.”
- Matthew 6:19-21
“The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if
your eye is healthy, your whole body
will be full of light, but if your eye is
bad, your whole body
“...will be full of darkness. If then the
light in you is darkness, how great is
the darkness!”
- vv. 22-23
“In our day there is little doubt that
as a culture we have totemized the
product. In other words, it has
acquired religious significance for
us. [...]
“Even the perennial [TV shows] about
renovating the house paganize us,
because they focus us on that which
so easily enslaves us. In these the
banality of consumerism reaches a
climax as we are
“...sold the lie that the thing that will
complete us is a new kitchen or a
house extension, whereas in fact
these only add more stress to our
mortgages and our families.[...]
“These shows are far more successful
promoters of unbelief than even
outright intellectual atheism, because
they hit us at that place where we
must render our
“...trust and loyalty. Most people are
profoundly susceptible to the
idolatrous allure of money and things.
We do well to remember what our
Lord said about
“...serving two masters and about
running after things (Matt. 6:24-33).”
- Alan
Hirsch,
The
Forgotten Ways
“No one can serve two masters, for
either he will hate the one and love the
other, or he will be devoted to the one
and despise the other. You cannot
serve God and money.”
- Matthew 6:24
How to tame the wild animal of money
(and teach it to do a few tricks too!):
How to tame the wild animal of money
(and teach it to do a few tricks too!):
1) I will not spend more than I earn
How to tame the wild animal of money
(and teach it to do a few tricks too!):
1) I will not spend more than I earn
2) I will get out of debt
How to tame the wild animal of money
(and teach it to do a few tricks too!):
1) I will not spend more than I earn
2) I will get out of debt
3) I will create and stick to a budget
How to tame the wild animal of money
(and teach it to do a few tricks too!):
1) I will not spend more than I earn
2) I will get out of debt
3) I will create and stick to a budget
4) I will join the “Kingdom” class
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