by Matt Bell | Nov 4, 2025 | Faith & Finances, Generosity |
When my wife, Jude, and I got married, I was making almost three times as much as she was (she worked in full-time ministry while I had a corporate job), and yet she had more money in savings, more money in investments, a paid-off car that was two years newer than my...
by Matt Bell | Sep 2, 2025 | Faith & Finances, Generosity |
It’s tricky business teaching about generosity these days. Preachers of the prosperity gospel are packing their pews and selling lots of books. Theirs is a “give in order to get” message, based on a misinterpretation of verses like Luke 6:38: Give, and it will be...
by Matt Bell | Jul 15, 2025 | Generosity, Teaching Kids |
In his book, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years, Donald Miller tells a powerful story he calls, “How Jason Saved His Family.” After returning from Los Angeles, where he took part in a storytelling workshop, Don got together with his friend, Jason, and learned of some...
by Matt Bell | Apr 8, 2025 | Budgeting/Planning, Credit/Debt, Faith & Finances, Generosity, Saving, Spending |
“The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever.” – Isaiah 40:7 With so much stock market turmoil and economic uncertainty swirling about, now more than ever we need the reassurance and guidance of God’s eternal Word. In order to cope...
by Matt Bell | Oct 15, 2024 | Budgeting/Planning, Credit/Debt, Faith & Finances, Generosity, Insurance, Investing, Money & Marriage, Saving, Spending |
If you were to take your financial life in for an annual check-up, how would it look? To put it in cholesterol terms, would your LDL (debt) be too high? Would your HDL (savings) be too low? Each year, researchers at the University of Southern California and a group...
Thanks for stopping by, Kenny. I hope you're sharing your story with others. I'm sure you could be an encouragement…
Thank you Matt. Really appreciate your story and the key biblical principles and practices to financial freedom. Your story has…
Great stuff, William. So logical, so simple, and yet so rarely practiced. Not having a car payment is a huge…
A great read. If you are paying the above average monthly new car payment of $745 (which does not include…
Glad it was timely, TJ. So much of money management is simple but not necessarily easy!