by Jeffrey Lucas Jr. | Sep 11, 2021 | Personal Finance
Recently, I met with a missionary from another country. He and his wife ate at our home. We shared conversation through some language difficulties. These are people who had left lucrative careers in engineering to become culture changers for a people they loved....
by Jeffrey Lucas Jr. | Aug 15, 2021 | Personal Finance
I talk a lot about putting money ‘on mission’ and being mission-minded. Often that brings up the fair question of “what’s a mission?” or more importantly “what’s MY mission?” Followers of Christ, like anybody else, can fall into a trap of a purposeless, wandering...
by Jeffrey Lucas Jr. | Jul 31, 2021 | Personal Finance
Recently, my used lawn tractor of five years finally bit the dust. This has been a death long in the making. While I wasn’t exactly surprised, I was annoyed. The biggest annoyance was that I had set aside a specific time to mow my yard, but now I couldn’t complete the...
by Jeffrey Lucas Jr. | Jul 25, 2021 | Personal Finance
Baby steps are for babies. Of course it’s easier to reduce Christian Money to ‘7 steps to make God happy with your money’. My experience with having a relationship with a living God, however, is that it’s a little more complicated than rote rules like ‘taste...
by Jeffrey Lucas Jr. | Jul 3, 2021 | Personal Finance
“A Penny saved is a penny earned” “Waste not want not.” Across the country, a cold shudder runs over the waiters and waitresses on Sunday afternoons, as the notoriously stingy after-church crowd descends on their restaurants. Christian business owners “steward”...
by Jeffrey Lucas Jr. | Jun 19, 2021 | Personal Finance
Having an emergency fund is a hot topic in personal finance. I myself used to have a fairly large five figure savings account that I kept around for ‘emergencies’. But how do we line up the risk taking words of Jesus with the worldly wisdom of socking aside...
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