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

With the economy reeling in the wake of the recent recession, many people are experiencing such financial challenges as credit card debt, downsizing, dead-end jobs, and inadequate or depleted savings. With these challenges come others as well. Recent studies confirm that more than half of all divorces are the result of financial pressures at home. And spiritually, many people are struggling to maintain a biblical perspective amidst the constant tug of materialism. But there is hope. The Bible has a lot to say about money. In fact, the Bible is a veritable blueprint for managing your finances. InYour Money Counts, trusted financial expert Howard Dayton shows you how to manage your personal finances in a highly practical, biblically-based way.Your Money Counts is a thorough, highly practical, guide to personal finance that looks at earning, spending, saving, giving, and getting out of debt from a uniquely biblical perspective. InYour Money Counts, readers are taught the ABCs of establishing a household budget, basic investment strategies, and charitable giving to help them customize their own financial strategy. The book is filled with worksheets, charts, and calculators for calculating budgets, debt, mortgage payments, investments, etc. Your Money Counts provides a clear and thoughtful approach to living debt-free in any economy.

Crown Financial Ministries®, founded in 1976, is an interdenominational ministry dedicated to equipping people around the world to learn, apply, and teach biblical financial principles. Crown has taught or equipped more than 50 million people in over 80 nations with the life-transforming message of faithfully living by God's financial principles in every area of their lives. The ministry is located in the United States, Canada, Latin America, South America, and Africa, and is expanding into Europe, India, Asia, and Australia. Crown relies on approximately 250 employees and over 10,000 passionate volunteers worldwide to help ignite True Financial Freedom around the globe. Vision: To see the followers of Christ in every nation faithfully living by God s financial principles in every area of their lives. Mission: Equipping people worldwide to learn, apply, and teach God s financial principles so they may know Christ more intimately, be free to serve Him, and help fund the Great Commission. Core Values: Crown Financial Ministries is a Christ-centered, Bible-based ministry whose core values include recognition of God's ownership of all things, the need to pray about everything, and the desire to equip and serve others with excellence while teaching in ways understood by all cultures and generations.