Finance

CFA February: What should Christian’s Keep in Mind While Planning for Retirement?

by Matthew E. Parrott February 3, 2012

The Christian Financial Alliance was created to help readers.  The idea is simple: Create a panel of biblical finance gurus, who take seriously the call to teach the Bible accurately with grace and truth.  Once a month, we post a question with responses from our panel to provide you with well-rounded, sound, biblical advice.  For more information, or to join [...]

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Tagged as: Andy Rooney, Bear Bryant, calling, Christian Financial Alliance, Joe Paterno, Purpose, Retirement

CFA July Question: Defining Biblical Generosity

by Matthew E. Parrott July 4, 2011

The Christian Financial Alliance was created to help readers.  The idea is simple: Create a panel of biblical finance gurus, who take seriously the call to teach the Bible accurately with grace and truth.  Once a month, we post a question with responses from our panel to provide you with well-rounded, sound, biblical advice.  For more information, or to join [...]

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Tagged as: CFA, Christian Financial Alliance, Defining Biblical generosity, Luke 10, Mark 12, Matthew 5, Psalms 24

Christian Financial Alliance Core Beliefs

by Matthew E. Parrott June 14, 2011

Recently, DiscipleshipGuy joined the Christian Financial Alliance.  This alliance is focused on  defining a set of core beliefs regarding biblical finance and holding ourselves accountable to it.  The great part about this is simple:  There are many bloggers in the blog-o-sper who claim to base their financial principals on sound Christian advice / doctrine.  However, [...]

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Tagged as: Christian Financial Alliance, Dollars and Doctrine, Faith and Finances, Finances

How to Make Selling on eBay into a Business

by Matthew E. Parrott January 18, 2010

I have been a member of eBay since January of 2003, I signed up in order to sell some bobble head dolls I had received as part of a promotion at a football game.  My initial thoughts were that if I sold the bobble head dolls for enough, then I might be able to pay for my tickets to [...]

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Tagged as: eBay, Making Money on eBay, payday, Selling on eBay, Tips to sell on eBay

10 Tips for Buying and Selling on Craigslist

by Matthew E. Parrott January 6, 2010

Over the past two years or so I have been using Craigslist to buy and sell many items, mostly electronics, but I have bought appliances, almost two thousand books and sold my Saturn Vue on Craigslist. Here I have compiled a list of the Top 5 Tips for Buying things on Craigslist, the Top 5 [...]

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Tagged as: Buying on Craigslist, Craigslist, Making money on Craigslist, Selling on Craigslist, Tips for buying and selling on Craigslist

Materialism and it’s effect

by Matthew E. Parrott January 4, 2010

The sermon at church yesterday was about materialism and the effects that it has on all of us. The pastor brought up several points about how we allow things get a hold of us, and we just feel this overwhelming need to have certain things. The pastor then went on to give several examples of times [...]

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Tagged as: Cell Phones, materialism, Sermon at Church, Sprint HTC Hero