Do you have an idea, or a passion that you know will be a great blessing to others; but may not result in a big payday? Yet, knowing this, you still want to pursue this passion? Today’s blog was inspired by a great conversation surrounding last week’s blog. If you remember, we talked about […]
Financial Tips
What If I Seriously Can’t Afford To Tithe?
How can I tithe when I can barely pay my bills? This question is real. And today, I want to talk to the one who doesn’t have an income. I want to talk to the one who doesn’t make enough money to pay their bills. When You Can’t Afford To Tithe I often counsel […]
5 Reasons You Need A Budget, Even If You Have No Income
When surveying families about how many of them established a budget, to our surprise we found out that many of them didn’t feel the need to have one. One of the common responses was: what’s the point if I don’t even have enough money to live on? I don’t need a piece of paper […]
Needs Versus Wants
Does your family keep a running needs and wants list? What for? When we were in the real estate and mortgage business, and the market crashed, so did our finances. We lost all we had, and it prompted us to write up a new family budget. We purposed to live within our new means, […]
Starting Over
We are often asked: how we started over? The answer is simple; we focused on the small beginnings. Starting over for us was a new beginning that demanded acknowledging small victories. On the Oxygen channel, we watched a new series called Preachers of LA. We heard one of the pastors say, “you may see […]
When Less Became More
You’ve never really lived until you’ve lost everything and find joy in starting over. That was us over 8 years ago and looking back those were the best moments of our life! During that time, we had a 72% decline in our income, which started the trend for us to live with less. However, […]
Living To Pay Bills
How do we stop living to pay bills? This is a question we asked ourselves several years ago. We went from making more than enough to barely getting by. And it was in that very moment, we earnestly sought God to help us stop living to pay bills. One morning, André had a revelation. […]
Family Time On A Dime
We never have any money to do anything. Does that sound familiar? We took that out of our vocabulary a few years ago. It’s true that you will definitely have what you say, so if you keep saying it, you just might find yourself in that position. In a previous blog, Our Daily Bills, we […]