Ease the SqueezeEase the Squeeze provides solutions to lead you to a financially free life and helps you develop purposeful plans for getting out of debt, saving, setting up a budget, giving, seizing back control of your time, your plans, your relationships, your finances and more. |
Contents
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Cocaine and the Plastic Plunge | 85 |
Tricks Traps and Monsters | 101 |
The Path to Financial Freedom | 211 |
Digging Out of Debt | 223 |
Determining Your Destiny | 231 |
The Dreaded B WordBudget | 249 |
Freedom in a Flash | 263 |
The Eighth Wonder of the World | 285 |
A Family Finance Reformation | 299 |
Revival? Reformation? Judgment? Its up to You | 327 |
That Tough WordGiving | 131 |
Results of GivingBlessing | 139 |
How Much Should | 153 |
Who Gets my Money? Going Once Going Twice | 165 |
A Land of Rich Young Rulers? | 175 |
Keeping It All in PerspectiveTemporal vs Eternal | 189 |
The Spiritual vs the Practical | 195 |
The Keys to Your Financial Future | 349 |
Appendix AHow Biblical Is It? A Chronology of Giving | 357 |
Appendix CFinancial Worksheets | 365 |
Endnotes | 373 |
Author Biography | 385 |
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Page 25 - Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock.
Page 191 - Command those who are rich in this present world not to be arrogant nor to put their hope in wealth, which is so uncertain, but to put their hope in God, who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment.
Page 103 - People who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge men into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.
Page 162 - Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
Page 162 - Now about the collection for God's people: Do what I told the Galatian churches to do. On the first day of every week, each one of you should set aside a sum of money in keeping with his income, saving it up, so that when I come no collections will have to be made.
Page 190 - Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Page 190 - Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Page 172 - In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.
Page 50 - I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.
Page 146 - Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this," says the LORD Almighty, "and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it.