A Christian Perspective on Money Management - Week 1
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My pastor at Hope Presbyterian started a new sermon series yesterday on money and achieving “financial peace”. It’s based on the Dave Ramsey series of the same name, but he (Pastor Craig) does an excellent job of relaying the principles of money management from a Christian perspective.
Here’s the Reader’s Digest version of his sermon along with a few Bible passages:
- We overspend (recent stats show $1.22 spent per $1.00 of income)
- We buy into the philosophy of “keeping up with the Joneses”
- Our culture’s “normal” view on wanting unneeded expensive “stuff” is actually very ABNORMAL as it causes nothing but debt, stress, and unhappiness
- We can be free and have financial peace with God’s help
The plans of the diligent lead to profit as surely as haste leads to poverty. - Proverbs 21:5 (NIV)
For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. - Matthew 6:21 (NIV)
Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter… - Proverbs 6:5 (NIV)
Just more substantial (if you subscribe to the Christian beliefs found in the Bible) proof that good money management (whether you use Quicken or some other tool) is essential to real happiness.
I’ll be posting the next few week’s of sermon notes here as well…
DK
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