CUMC’s Financial Literacy Blog

Each generation is responsible for passing on the Gospel message and the truths found in the Scriptures to its children. “Train up a child in the way he should go, even when he is old he will not depart from it” (Proverbs 22:6). Since parents are the primary teachers of their children, especially during their early years, they should be the ones to instill within their children God’’s principles of finance as detailed in God’s Word.

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If you’re constantly broke and can’t figure out why, the answer may be sitting in your driveway.

Read more at MSN

According to CNN Money, your adult children may need a hand charting a financial course. So buy them time with a planner.

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CNN Money has an excellent article on mistakes to avoid in managing your 401(k):

In a study of 100,000 401(k) participants, the company found that 70 percent gave up returns of one to three percentage points a year after inflation because of common and entirely avoidable blunders.

The cost: potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars over the course of a career.

Read more at CNN Money

Please join us Saturday, August 25 at 1:30 p.m. to discuss “Giving Back to God.”

We will explore topics like:

• The difference between tithes and offerings
• The importance of the right attitude
• What it means to give God leftovers

We will use the following scripture as the basis for our discussion:

• John 3:16
• 2 Corinthians 8:1–2; 9:7
• Acts 20:35
• Matthew 6:20-21
• Matthew 25
• Malachi 1:6-9

Please bring your bibles and join us at Centenary!

You can purchase Taking Care of Business from our bookstore.

Ben Stein provides tips for students starting college this year to ensure that their financial future is solid:

Finance is an endlessly fascinating topic. It involves history, intuition, logic, mathematics, and hope. But for most of us, our finances come from work and not from investments.

In turn, how we do at work is vitally affected by the kind of education we get — and most especially what we get out of our education. And what we get out of our education is very largely dependent on what we put into our education.

Read more on Yahoo.

David Bach, “The Automatic Millionaire” has an excellent article on paying off credit card debt.

This article is a good companion to our study of paying off debt.

We had a very small turnout today, so we will save these notes for our next session on 8/25/2007.

Taking Care of Business - Ch 7

Also, see this article on Giving by Lee Jenkins.

You can purchase Taking Care of Business from our bookstore.

Notes from Saturday, July 14, 2007:

Spending Your Money Wisely

You can purchase Taking Care of Business from our bookstore.

Notes from Saturday, April 14, 2007

From Financial Bondage to Freedom

You can purchase Taking Care of Business from our bookstore.