- Love of Money
The love of money has led far more people into consumer-debt and relative poverty than it has ever led to wealth
- Love of Money
A life-long struggle for the next paycheck is the love of money at its stealthiest
- Chasing After Riches
If spending all our time chasing the almighty dollar is sinful, how can spending all our time chasing a mediocre dollar be okay?
- Contentment
So this is the art of contentment: not to seek to add to our circumstances, but to subtract from our desires
- Seek First the Kingdom
Matthew 6:33 addresses the dangers of chasing after the ordinary, and mundane dollar, rather than the almighty dollar
- Love of Money
A healthy bank balance could indicate the love of money in a person’s heart. This is equally true for an unhealthy bank balance.
- Love of Money
The love of money is a state of heart; not a bank balance.
- God First…
Jesus said, ‘Seek first the kingdom of God…’ How Christians manage their finances will take them closer to, or further away from that goal.
- Wealth vs Love of Money
Acquisition of wealth and Pursuit of Riches are not the same thing; every time we cash a paycheck, we acquire wealth.
- Budget
When Christians have no financial plan, Mammon will write one for them!
- Financial Plan
A budget is telling your money where to go instead of wondering where it went
- Seek the Kingdom
Seeking a paycheck instead of seeking first the Kingdom of God…
- Love of Money
There are 84 daylight hours in a week. How many of those are spent seeking the kingdom of God? How many are spent seeking a paycheck? Do the math…
- Stewardship
Stewardship turns a life of means into a life of meaning
- Change of Heart
From greed to contentment. Result; savings. From fear to knowledge. Result; increase.
From financial foolishness to financial wisdom. Result; stewardship.
- Love of Money
Love of money is a spiritual state of heart; wealth — or poverty — are merely a circumstance.
- A Hard Truth
Can I truly say I am free from the love of money while I spend 40-60 hours each week in pursuit of my paycheck?
- God vs Mammon
Ironically the decisions that put money first and God second are often the same ones that land us in financial trouble.
- Stewardship
Only after we surrender all of our finances to God, can we truly say He is first in our lives.
- Covetousness
Covetousness takes joy in a wealthier person’s misfortune even though it does not improve one’s own circumstances. When the rich celebrity suddenly loses all his money and his nice car, will that somehow magically give me the ability to make rent?
- Covetousness
Envy says, ‘I want what that person has.’ Covetousness says, ‘If I can’t have it, then they shouldn’t have it either.’
- Stewardship
Stewardship is not about building a life of leisure but, rather, building a life of meaning.
- Seek First the Kingdom
Seek first the kingdom of God — not a pay-check! This is the core message in Matthew 6:33.
- Wealth
Better to be a nobody and yet have a servant than pretend to be somebody and have no food.
- Kingdom Giving
Give today — and plant seed for tomorrow. This is the whole secret to sustainable Kingdom-giving.
- Love of Money
Forsaking the pursuit of riches is easy. Forsaking pursuit of the mundane and ordinary requires true courage.
- Profit & Loss
The plans of the diligent lead to profit as surely as haste leads to poverty
- Wealth & Righteousness
The righteous eat to their hearts’ content, but the stomach of the wicked goes hungry
- Wealth
Precious treasure and oil are in a wise man’s dwelling, but a foolish man devours it
- Wealth
When God gives someone wealth and possessions, and the ability to enjoy them… this is a gift of God.
- Wealth
One person pretends to be rich, yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth.
- Work
Unless the Lord builds the house… In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for food to eat — for he grants sleep to those he loves.
- Job Security
Never let something as fleeting as job security rob you of God’s plan for your life!
- Wealth
The blessing of the Lord brings wealth without painful toil for it.
- Deceitfulness of Riches
Until we confront the deceitfulness of riches, we are destined to live inconsequential lives, never fulfilling God’s purposes, because we were too focused on the cares of this world.
- Work
Those who work their land will have abundant food, but those who chase fantasies have no sense.
- Wealth
The truth is that many Christians could achieve true wealth (i.e. freedom and choice) with little or no more money than they have now.
- Worry
Matthew 6:25 challenges me to trust my heavenly Father, rather than my employment contract, to provide for my basic needs.
- Life Choices
You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
- Wealth
Riches are the measure of a bank balance. Wealth is the measure of freedom and choice.
- Love of Money
If life isn’t just about making lots of money, it most certainly isn’t just about making ends meet. Where is God in either of those pursuits?
- Mammon
When we put money first, Mammon is our master. When we put God first, Mammon becomes our servant.
- Work
The lazy do not roast any game, but the diligent feed on the riches of the hunt.
- Materialism is Love of Money
Materialism – the love of money that promises instant gratification – instead delivers a twisted form of serfdom in which we become little more than wage-slaves paying for last year’s purchases.
- Money Talks
How is it that money, a subject so deeply ingrained in our human psyche, is so seldom addressed in a Christian context?
- Wealth
Popular Christian thinking suggests the acquisition of wealth is unbiblical… and yet most Christians spend all their time working to earn more money.
- Materialism
In the end we discover the true price of the happiness that money buys; consumer-debt and financial struggle.
- Love of Money
Satan focuses all our attention on Acquisition of Riches, while quietly hiding the Materialism that takes root our hearts…. and we, his victims, continue to believe we are immune from the Love of Money because we still feel poor!
- Greed
Investment and greed are not the same thing. Investment is the act of sowing to reap a future harvest. Greed is the act of consumption.
- Teaching Children
We need to teach our children about money at every opportunity. Not so that they become lovers of money, but rather, so that they don’t!
- Debt
Do not be one who shakes hands in pledge or puts up security for debts; if you lack the means to pay, your very bed will be snatched from under you.
- Wealth
Those who work their land will have abundant food, but those who chase fantasies have no sense.
- Building Wealth
Love of money is a state of heart and state of mind. The acquisition of wealth is merely a direction of travel.
- Wealth
A good name is more desirable than great riches; to be esteemed is better than silver or gold.
- Wealth vs Happiness
We can’t tell someone who is sowing seeds for future harvest that money can’t buy happiness while we are spending our last dime on a massive tub of popcorn at the cinema!
- Love of Money
The problem isn’t that money doesn’t buy happiness. The problem is that it does!
- Hard Work
The lazy do not roast any game, but the diligent feed on the riches of the hunt.
- Deceitfulness of Riches
Many believers think the deceitfulness of riches is the foolish notion that wealth will bring fulfillment and happiness. This anticipates danger on the path ahead while ignoring the trap underfoot that has already ensnared its victim.
- Wealth vs Riches
One Christian craves riches. Another abhors riches. Both could experience true wealth with what they already have.
- Stewardship
Be sure you know the condition of your flocks, give careful attention to your herds; for riches do not endure forever, and a crown is not secure for all generations.
- Wealth vs Riches
You could be wealthy beyond measure – without being any richer than you are now.
- Seek Godly Mentors
It is good to learn from your mistakes. It is far better to learn from the mistakes of others.
- Love of Money
Whoever loves money never has enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with their income. This too is meaningless.
- Teaching Children
The true inheritance we leave our children is not the money they get when we die. Rather, it is the values, skills and wisdom we instil in them today.
- Forgiveness in Business
Forgive! Your energy is far better spent on building your future than dwelling on past hurts and losses.
- Wise Investment
Dishonest money dwindles away but whoever gathers money little by little makes it grow
- Managing Money
Giving of our finances is generosity. Investing the money we have so that it grows to produce further income is wisdom. Recognizing that it all belongs to God is stewardship.
- Wealth
The Bible doesn’t tell us how to become wealthy; it can tell us how to remain Godly while we do.
- Wealth
Lazy hands make for poverty, but diligent hands bring wealth.
- Time vs Money
Time is far more valuable than money. Instead of using all our time to acquire money, why not use our money to acquire time?
- The Great Equalizer
Love of money is the great equalizer, bridging the gap between rich and poor. It takes hold, no matter how much or how little we have.
- Mammon
Serve God, not money. Money is there to serve you, as you serve God.
- Forgiveness in Business
Forgive… life is too short to carry the weight of resentment for every penny someone ever stole from you.
- Investment Risks
If money is not important, why are we so afraid to risk it on investment opportunities?
- Love of Money
Financial struggle is one of many evils in this world and, yes; its root is the love of money.
- Education
Teaching your children a Godly attitude towards money is Future Investment
- Deceitfulness of riches
When I have just a little bit more, then I will …… This is the deceitfulness of riches.
- Deceitfulness of Riches
If you think the deceitfulness of riches only applies if and when you become rich, you’ve already been duped.
- A Painful Truth
Many Christians face financial struggle today, not because of a noble intent to avoid the love of money but, rather, because it has already ensnared them.
- Poverty
There is a difference between being Poor and being Broke, Broke is temporary, Poor is eternal
- Mammon
Money is a terrible master, but an excellent servant.
- Love of Money
God neither needs nor cares about our money. He cares about our hearts – and nothing reveals a heart’s true state as clearly as its attitude toward money.
- Money Talks
Money can be a blessing or a curse and the only factor that determines which, is our attitude towards it. Why wouldn’t Christians talk about money?
- Abundance or Lack
We can deal with the love of money from a place of abundance, or from a place of lack. But make no mistake; we must deal with it.
- Love of Money
One of the most misunderstood truths in the Bible is how the love of money is the root of financial struggle in the world today.
- Faith and Prosperity
We are saved by faith, not by works. We create wealth by work, not by faith.
- Love of Money
Everybody faces Love of Money challenges; only the form varies.
- Love of Money
Frightening truth! The love of money is far more likely to result in crippling debt and financial struggle than it is in wealth or riches.
- Building Wealth
In the quest to create wealth in a Godly manner, free from the love of money, never forget why you are doing it.
- The Greatest Trick
The greatest trick the Love of Money ever pulled was convincing us it only exists in other people.
- Faith and Prosperity
Faith will save your eternal soul. It won’t make you wealthy in this life. The power to create wealth is a learned skill.
- Love of Money
The eternal struggle for another paycheck is love of money at its stealthiest. Nobody plans for this life or pictured this as living the dream back in their twenties.
- Wisdom
Understanding how money works is wisdom. Recognizing its worthlessness next to salvation and eternity is godliness.
- Poverty is not Immunity
Poverty is not immunity from love of money. Anyone can love money; not only the rich.
- Love of Money
When combating the Love of Money, doing battle from a place of financial struggle won’t make your fight any easier or more noble.
- Stewardship
Biblical stewardship is recognizing that all that we have is on temporary loan from the almighty. Let’s manage it wisely.
- Love of Money
The love of money is far more likely to result in crippling debt and financial struggle than it is in wealth or riches.
- Wealth
The Bible says ‘My people are destroyed from lack of knowledge.’ This applies to finances as much as it does to any other aspect of our Christian walk.
- Materialism
What we call Retail Therapy, the Bible calls Love of Money. Retail therapy leads to poverty. Ergo, Love of Money leads to poverty.
- Love of Money
Don’t judge others too harshly. The love of money is sin – and we are all sinners.
The love of money has led far more people into consumer-debt and relative poverty than it has ever led to wealth
A life-long struggle for the next paycheck is the love of money at its stealthiest
If spending all our time chasing the almighty dollar is sinful, how can spending all our time chasing a mediocre dollar be okay?
So this is the art of contentment: not to seek to add to our circumstances, but to subtract from our desires
Matthew 6:33 addresses the dangers of chasing after the ordinary, and mundane dollar, rather than the almighty dollar
A healthy bank balance could indicate the love of money in a person’s heart. This is equally true for an unhealthy bank balance.
The love of money is a state of heart; not a bank balance.
Jesus said, ‘Seek first the kingdom of God…’ How Christians manage their finances will take them closer to, or further away from that goal.
Acquisition of wealth and Pursuit of Riches are not the same thing; every time we cash a paycheck, we acquire wealth.
When Christians have no financial plan, Mammon will write one for them!
A budget is telling your money where to go instead of wondering where it went
Seeking a paycheck instead of seeking first the Kingdom of God…
There are 84 daylight hours in a week. How many of those are spent seeking the kingdom of God? How many are spent seeking a paycheck? Do the math…
Stewardship turns a life of means into a life of meaning
From greed to contentment. Result; savings. From fear to knowledge. Result; increase. From financial foolishness to financial wisdom. Result; stewardship.
Love of money is a spiritual state of heart; wealth — or poverty — are merely a circumstance.
Ironically the decisions that put money first and God second are often the same ones that land us in financial trouble.
Only after we surrender all of our finances to God, can we truly say He is first in our lives.
Covetousness takes joy in a wealthier person’s misfortune even though it does not improve one’s own circumstances. When the rich celebrity suddenly loses all his money and his nice car, will that somehow magically give me the ability to make rent?
Envy says, ‘I want what that person has.’ Covetousness says, ‘If I can’t have it, then they shouldn’t have it either.’
Stewardship is not about building a life of leisure but, rather, building a life of meaning.
Seek first the kingdom of God — not a pay-check! This is the core message in Matthew 6:33.
Better to be a nobody and yet have a servant than pretend to be somebody and have no food.
Give today — and plant seed for tomorrow. This is the whole secret to sustainable Kingdom-giving.
Forsaking the pursuit of riches is easy. Forsaking pursuit of the mundane and ordinary requires true courage.
The plans of the diligent lead to profit as surely as haste leads to poverty
The righteous eat to their hearts’ content, but the stomach of the wicked goes hungry
Precious treasure and oil are in a wise man’s dwelling, but a foolish man devours it
When God gives someone wealth and possessions, and the ability to enjoy them… this is a gift of God.
One person pretends to be rich, yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth.
Unless the Lord builds the house… In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for food to eat — for he grants sleep to those he loves.
Never let something as fleeting as job security rob you of God’s plan for your life!
The blessing of the Lord brings wealth without painful toil for it.
Until we confront the deceitfulness of riches, we are destined to live inconsequential lives, never fulfilling God’s purposes, because we were too focused on the cares of this world.
Those who work their land will have abundant food, but those who chase fantasies have no sense.
The truth is that many Christians could achieve true wealth (i.e. freedom and choice) with little or no more money than they have now.
Matthew 6:25 challenges me to trust my heavenly Father, rather than my employment contract, to provide for my basic needs.
You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
Riches are the measure of a bank balance. Wealth is the measure of freedom and choice.
If life isn’t just about making lots of money, it most certainly isn’t just about making ends meet. Where is God in either of those pursuits?
When we put money first, Mammon is our master. When we put God first, Mammon becomes our servant.
The lazy do not roast any game, but the diligent feed on the riches of the hunt.
Materialism – the love of money that promises instant gratification – instead delivers a twisted form of serfdom in which we become little more than wage-slaves paying for last year’s purchases.
How is it that money, a subject so deeply ingrained in our human psyche, is so seldom addressed in a Christian context?
Popular Christian thinking suggests the acquisition of wealth is unbiblical… and yet most Christians spend all their time working to earn more money.
In the end we discover the true price of the happiness that money buys; consumer-debt and financial struggle.
Satan focuses all our attention on Acquisition of Riches, while quietly hiding the Materialism that takes root our hearts…. and we, his victims, continue to believe we are immune from the Love of Money because we still feel poor!
Investment and greed are not the same thing. Investment is the act of sowing to reap a future harvest. Greed is the act of consumption.
We need to teach our children about money at every opportunity. Not so that they become lovers of money, but rather, so that they don’t!
Do not be one who shakes hands in pledge or puts up security for debts; if you lack the means to pay, your very bed will be snatched from under you.
Those who work their land will have abundant food, but those who chase fantasies have no sense.
Love of money is a state of heart and state of mind. The acquisition of wealth is merely a direction of travel.
A good name is more desirable than great riches; to be esteemed is better than silver or gold.
We can’t tell someone who is sowing seeds for future harvest that money can’t buy happiness while we are spending our last dime on a massive tub of popcorn at the cinema!
The problem isn’t that money doesn’t buy happiness. The problem is that it does!
The lazy do not roast any game, but the diligent feed on the riches of the hunt.
Many believers think the deceitfulness of riches is the foolish notion that wealth will bring fulfillment and happiness. This anticipates danger on the path ahead while ignoring the trap underfoot that has already ensnared its victim.
Be sure you know the condition of your flocks, give careful attention to your herds; for riches do not endure forever, and a crown is not secure for all generations.
You could be wealthy beyond measure – without being any richer than you are now.
It is good to learn from your mistakes. It is far better to learn from the mistakes of others.
Whoever loves money never has enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with their income. This too is meaningless.
The true inheritance we leave our children is not the money they get when we die. Rather, it is the values, skills and wisdom we instil in them today.
Forgive! Your energy is far better spent on building your future than dwelling on past hurts and losses.
Dishonest money dwindles away but whoever gathers money little by little makes it grow
Giving of our finances is generosity. Investing the money we have so that it grows to produce further income is wisdom. Recognizing that it all belongs to God is stewardship.
The Bible doesn’t tell us how to become wealthy; it can tell us how to remain Godly while we do.
Lazy hands make for poverty, but diligent hands bring wealth.
Time is far more valuable than money. Instead of using all our time to acquire money, why not use our money to acquire time?
Serve God, not money. Money is there to serve you, as you serve God.
Forgive… life is too short to carry the weight of resentment for every penny someone ever stole from you.
If money is not important, why are we so afraid to risk it on investment opportunities?
Financial struggle is one of many evils in this world and, yes; its root is the love of money.
Teaching your children a Godly attitude towards money is Future Investment
When I have just a little bit more, then I will …… This is the deceitfulness of riches.
If you think the deceitfulness of riches only applies if and when you become rich, you’ve already been duped.
Many Christians face financial struggle today, not because of a noble intent to avoid the love of money but, rather, because it has already ensnared them.
There is a difference between being Poor and being Broke, Broke is temporary, Poor is eternal
Money is a terrible master, but an excellent servant.
God neither needs nor cares about our money. He cares about our hearts – and nothing reveals a heart’s true state as clearly as its attitude toward money.
Money can be a blessing or a curse and the only factor that determines which, is our attitude towards it. Why wouldn’t Christians talk about money?
We can deal with the love of money from a place of abundance, or from a place of lack. But make no mistake; we must deal with it.
One of the most misunderstood truths in the Bible is how the love of money is the root of financial struggle in the world today.
We are saved by faith, not by works. We create wealth by work, not by faith.
Everybody faces Love of Money challenges; only the form varies.
Frightening truth! The love of money is far more likely to result in crippling debt and financial struggle than it is in wealth or riches.
In the quest to create wealth in a Godly manner, free from the love of money, never forget why you are doing it.
The greatest trick the Love of Money ever pulled was convincing us it only exists in other people.
Faith will save your eternal soul. It won’t make you wealthy in this life. The power to create wealth is a learned skill.
The eternal struggle for another paycheck is love of money at its stealthiest. Nobody plans for this life or pictured this as living the dream back in their twenties.
Understanding how money works is wisdom. Recognizing its worthlessness next to salvation and eternity is godliness.
Poverty is not immunity from love of money. Anyone can love money; not only the rich.
When combating the Love of Money, doing battle from a place of financial struggle won’t make your fight any easier or more noble.
Biblical stewardship is recognizing that all that we have is on temporary loan from the almighty. Let’s manage it wisely.
The love of money is far more likely to result in crippling debt and financial struggle than it is in wealth or riches.
The Bible says ‘My people are destroyed from lack of knowledge.’ This applies to finances as much as it does to any other aspect of our Christian walk.
What we call Retail Therapy, the Bible calls Love of Money. Retail therapy leads to poverty. Ergo, Love of Money leads to poverty.
Don’t judge others too harshly. The love of money is sin – and we are all sinners.