Your Money Counts: The Biblical Guide to Earning, Spending, Saving, Investing, Giving, and Getting Out of Debt

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Summary: Excellent Financial Overview
Review: I have read this book three times, and each time I do I pull some great nuggets of golden wisdom out of it. This book is an overview of the Crown Ministries study which works to implement biblical principles on money in churches. If you are able to participate in a Crown small group in your local area, I would highly recommend the 12 week study...The book promotes a balanced biblical view of becoming a faithful steward in the areas of spending, saving, giving, investing, seeking counsel, working, avoiding debt, honesty and teaching children.

The chapter on honesty at work is particularly convicting. He writes that most people define honesty as what we can get away with, but the Bible always defines it as absolute faithfulness to the unvarnished truth. I really enjoyed the part of the book about work and becoming focused on a calling from God.

Dayton studied for two years the 2300+ verses in the Bible on money. He writes with candor and humility. I like that he challenges Christians to look at their lifestyle based on being faithful to God, and not automatically raise it with their income. Greed the silent sin is one of the most pervasive sins in our culture, he says.

For anyone that is interested in becoming more faithful to God with their money, and would like to experience the peace and joy that comes from learning contentment, I would highly recommend this book.

Ashley Hodge, CFP
Southlake, TX

Rating:
Summary: Excellent Financial Overview
Review: I have read this book three times, and each time I do I pull some great nuggets of golden wisdom out of it. This book is an overview of the Crown Ministries study which works to implement biblical principles on money in churches. If you are able to participate in a Crown small group in your local area, I would highly recommend the 12 week study...The book promotes a balanced biblical view of becoming a faithful steward in the areas of spending, saving, giving, investing, seeking counsel, working, avoiding debt, honesty and teaching children.

The chapter on honesty at work is particularly convicting. He writes that most people define honesty as what we can get away with, but the Bible always defines it as absolute faithfulness to the unvarnished truth. I really enjoyed the part of the book about work and becoming focused on a calling from God.

Dayton studied for two years the 2300+ verses in the Bible on money. He writes with candor and humility. I like that he challenges Christians to look at their lifestyle based on being faithful to God, and not automatically raise it with their income. Greed the silent sin is one of the most pervasive sins in our culture, he says.

For anyone that is interested in becoming more faithful to God with their money, and would like to experience the peace and joy that comes from learning contentment, I would highly recommend this book.

Ashley Hodge, CFP
Southlake, TX

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Summary: Very enlightening view of money
Review: If you are looking for an intro book into the biblical principals of money management, this is a good place to start. Dayton does a great job giving a lot of scripture references showing biblical principles for finances and i hope to memorize many of them for my own.

With that in mind, if you are looking for a book that will give you all the tools you need to get you going to a better budget etc, this is not the one. It is more of a mindset of how you should approach your stewardship than practical tips and tricks to make it happen.

Highly recomended to all Christians (and those curious about how we believe about money and possesions). You will recieve a blessing from it that you can then build on.

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Summary: Be Careful!! Reading this book could change your life!
Review: If your are struggling with money-- read this book! If you are fighting with your spouse over money-- read this book! If you are clueless as to how to get out of your current finacial situation-- read this book! If you want to grow in your undersating of the meaning of your life-- read this book! If you want to keep drowning in debt, if you want to keep reaching for that better car, or bigger house-- then DO NOT READ THIS BOOK!

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Summary: Very enlightening view of money
Review: This book was organized and an easy read. I found it very helpful in shaping my view on money. I also felt a great burden was lifted from my shoulders, do to the references given from the bible on spending, saving, earning, and giving. It will also prove to be a great reference book for the future.