Over the past year I’ve watched as Baker over at ManVsDebt.com has had a meteoric launch to become one of the premier voices in the blogosphere in several different niches. He is a recognized personal finance writer, landing a staff writer position at one of the premier personal finance sites, GetRichSlowly.org. He writes about his family’s travels as they globe trot – from New Zealand to Australia to Thailand – in the past year. His writing has been inspired, and lots of people (myself included) have come to enjoy his writing immensely.  Read more... (878 words, 13 images, estimated 3:31 mins reading time)

• New Larry Winget book is on the way I stopped by Borders while I was in town tonight and read part of Larry Winget's People Are Idiots And I Can Prove It! It took me a little hunting to find it, though.  I started by heading over to the personal finance section -- his last book was You're......
• Book Review: Jim Cramer's Mad Money Whistles blow, car horns honk, things get thrown around the room and screams echo throughout the room.  The sounds of bulls, bears, and pigs are heard on a frequent basis.  Occasionally, even the sounds of ghosts are heard in the distance.  Is this a sign of the Apocalypse? No, it's......

As I’ve stated elsewhere on this site, one of my goals for Bible Money Matters has been to make it one of the go-to places on the internet for personal finance information from a Christian viewpoint. I want to provide great commentary on money topics, and make this site useful, entertaining and engaging.

One of the ways I’ve been trying to improve the site in the past year is by hosting some of the best Christian personal finance writers from all over web on this site. In the past year we’ve hired several talented staff writers to write for our site every week.  Read more... (609 words, 11 images, estimated 2:26 mins reading time)

• 2010's Top 50 Romance Novel Blogs part 3 Continuing on with the Top 50 New Romance Novel Blogs of 2010... Here are 10 more blogs to visit, say hi to, and fall in love with! Don't forget you can subscribe to both lists with this Google Reader Romance Novel Bundle. Lusty Reader – She lusts for books, especially......
• Interesting Facts: Volume 1 [/caption] WORLD FACTS Who Made The Marree Man? facts 60 km out of the town of Marree in South Australia, there is the figure of a man etched into the ground that is more than 4 km long. This geoglyph, popularly known as the Marree Man, is not only Australia's......

Within the past couple of days I was notified that Bible Money Matters was nominated and was one of the finalists in the “Best Religious Finance Blog” category of the Plutus Awards.  I’m humbled and gratified that someone enjoyed the site enough to nominate us. Before we get too far though, we should clarify – what on earth are the Plutus Awards? 

The Plutus Awards are like the Oscars of the personal finance blog world.  They honor the best and the brightest of the year in a variety of categories.   They have categories for everything from “Blog of the Year” to the “Lifetime Achievement Awards”.  Read more... (530 words, 12 images, estimated 2:07 mins reading time)

• Open handed personal finance The final step in Dave Ramsey's Baby Steps is to build wealth and give it away. That seems completely counter to what the world would teach, but as Christians, helping others should be one of the barometers by which we measure our spiritual health. There are over 2300 verses in......
• Get Advertising Revenue From Prosper I've been lending money on Prosper.com for nearly a year now. I've been getting a pretty decent rate of return, despite having had a couple of borrowers default. I've also made over $200 from referrals fees! Whenever anyone signs up using the referral link and funds atleast $50, we both......

Last month I wrote a series of posts on this blog about how I had turned my blog into a nice secondary source of income for my family. I discussed all the things that I have done over the past 2 years in order to take a small unheard of blog, and turn it into an income producing asset. The series of posts was extremely popular, and I decided to write some more on the topic and create an expanded resource for new and intermediate bloggers alike.  Read more... (716 words, 12 images, estimated 2:52 mins reading time)

• Reporter vs Expert - Why Most Bloggers Are Stuck Reporting There are basically two types of bloggers in the world - reporters and experts - and some people perform both roles (usually the experts, it's hard for reporters to become experts, but it's easy for experts to report). If you have ever taken an Internet marketing course or attended a......
• There is a price for convenience Photo by: brewbooks I've mentioned in a few posts in the past that I enjoy playing Dungeons & Dragons*.  Call me a geek, but it really is an incredible game, much like playing a novel where you are the main character.  Recently, Wizards of the Coast (the makers of......

Over the last few weeks I’ve been making a lot of changes behind the scenes, things that most people probably wouldn’t notice.  In order to help make the articles here available for even more people I’ve been making Bible Money Matters compliant with several mobile platforms, in addition to launching an email newsletter just yesterday.

So without further ado, let’s take a look at some of the new options you have to keep in touch with Bible Money Matters!  Read more... (625 words, 14 images, estimated 2:30 mins reading time)

• No Swimsuits, No Skin, And No Innuendo... Regards, Apple Over the last few days we’ve been tracking Apple’s recent decision to remove all sexual content from the App Store. It’s an alarming move on Apple’s part, if only because it shows that the company is willing to throw developers (and their livelihoods) under the bus without any notice......
• Flixup Brings Its Movie Tweet Aggregator To The Web For The Holiday Movie Season At our Realtime CrunchUp in November, Bazaar Labs showed off their iPhone application Flixup, which scans Twitter to create aggregate scores for movies. Tonight, just in time for the busy Christmas movie-going season, they’re launching the website for the service. The website works just like the app. The main page......