Kingdom Calling vs Financial Advisors: Debt or Wealth – What’s the Focus?
Some Financial Advisors out there are so focused on debt reduction, that they can hamper your ability to make money. Why? Because they’re people. And like anybody, their behavior can be conditioned by experience. But when that experience is irrelevant to your financial situation, it can condition some to be inefficient. Take the example of […]
Kingdom Calling vs Financial Advisors: A Better Way
Almost all financial advisors recommend that you invest your money in the stock and bond market, usually through mutual funds, although it could be through wrap accounts, managed accounts, or in individual stocks and bonds. All of these options are subject to the schizophrenic, emotional roller coaster of the markets. As you know well, the […]
Kingdom Calling vs. Financial Advisors: Building Glass Ceilings
My years as a traditional financial advisor, before I questioned the status quo and began focusing on stewardship, taught me a lot. One of the most salient things I gleaned in those years was that fact that your standard financial advisor can’t, over time, really help you out-perform the market. But they may well help […]
Kingdom Calling vs. Financial Advisors: Forfeiting Your Power
I feel sorry for most of the common people I hear about who have lost wealth, lost their way, or both in the financial storm we’re currently weathering. “Why cry for those whose fault it is?” I’ve been asked. Certainly these people were at fault. One can throw blame upon many right now, and that’s […]
Kingdom Calling vs. Financial Advisors: Trying to Predict the Future
Kingdom Calling cannot and does not try to predict the future. If you’re working with a financial advisor that does, it’s probably time for you to question your direction. Instead, Kingdom Calling tries to plan for every contingency while focusing on maximizing the efficiency of your plan. By doing so, we are able, in most […]
The 3 Levels of Tithing: Level 2
Many people outside the Church practice tithing (continued from yesterday). People of other religions do it. I’ve seen modern financial books that I would consider “new age” that promote tithing in some form. They all receive a blessing for doing this. And yet too many of us in the Church look suspiciously at a pastor […]
“I Don’t Tithe Because…”
Our temptation is to look at our own circumstances and decide that they are too difficult and to say that God understands your reasons for not tithing. Please understand that Satan tells everyone this when they’re not in the habit of tithing. By following the wrong master you’re are not allowing God to bless you […]
Tithes and Offerings
The tithe is one of the most important things we can do to grow and steward our wealth. Yet most people unaccustomed to this practice or new to faith are horrified by the idea. They feel that they don’t have enough to be giving much away; or that if they did, there would be nothing […]
How Are You Handling His Affairs?
We discussed previously the difference between ownership and stewardship and that all followers of Christ are called to be faithful stewards over what we are given. Jesus explained it this way, “He said: “A man of noble birth went to a distant country to have himself appointed king and then to return. 13So he called […]
The Uncertainty of Riches
Being rich in the world is of no consequence when compared to being rich in communion with God: “that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man” (Ephesians 3:16). “I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, […]