Giving

How to Handle an Abundance of Wealth

Personal Finance

If you one day find yourself in the fortunate position of coming upon a large sum of wealth, you may be at a loss for what to do with it. Sure there are plenty of choices: spend it, save it, invest it, and so on, but what if these options aren’t enough? Is there some [...]

Christian Finance – A Blueprint For Getting Your Financial House in Order

Personal Finance

This was an original post I did over at ChristianPF – you can check it out in its entirety there. My wife and I recently built a new home and moved in a few months ago.  It feels good to be done with the process! There are some good financial lessons to be learned from building [...]

Tithing – How Much Should a Christian Give? Part 2

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Yesterday we set the stage for the topic of tithing and Christian giving. Today we want to delve a little further into giving and try to answer this question, “How much should I give?”. We are going to take a bit of a journey to get there, but that’s where we’ll end up. This post [...]

This Week in Personal Finance – April 9, 2010

Personal Finance

It’s been a crazy couple of weeks around the R2 household and office!  There seems to be just a lot of stuff going on. I’m really looking forward to some rest this weekend! But, it’s another week in the books and it’s time for a quick tour.   This Week in Personal Finance takes a look at interesting [...]

What Is Your Motivation in Giving?

True Wealth

Lately I’ve been reflecting on giving and our heart motivation behind it.  I’ve had the great opportunity to teach a money class the last couple weeks to a Young Marrieds group at church and It’s been a great experienc for me, because I’ve had to spend some time digging in to Scripture to get me [...]

This Week in Personal Finance – February 12, 2010

Personal Finance

It’s been a great week!  My first post as a writer went up on Christian PF (see link below).  I’m excited about the opportunity to write for a great site like that. The markets have been a little crazy this week and there still a lot of talk about our national debt.  The best thing [...]

This Week in Personal Finance – January 29, 2010

Miscellaneous

Another week “in the books”.  I can’t believe it’s almost February already.  This was a fun week on R2 – if you didn’t check out my mom’s guest post on marriage you should! Anyways, This Week in Personal Finance takes a look at interesting articles, posts and news from the past week in the personal finance [...]

This Week in Personal Finance – January 15, 2010

Miscellaneous

Today’s the big day! We are finally closing on our new house. We started the building process back in August of ’09, moved into the inlaws basement and recently have been frantically trying to get a bunch of little things done so we can keep our closing date. We locked in our rate back in [...]