Articles filed under Your Money

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   Life insurance: More than money?

   By Henry Friesen on Aug 24, 2012

   Smelling a sure sale, the young life insurance agent leaned toward his prospective client and explained: “You’re betting you die young. I’m betting you don’t. And you hope I win!” Life insurance has more to do with death than life….Read More→

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   Decluttering: a matter of stewardship?

   By Henry Friesen on Jun 14, 2012

   Three moves are as good as a fire! It’s a bad joke to people who have experienced a fire. But the folks packing up their house to relocate soon realize it’s not a joke at all. My neighbours recently listed…Read More→

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   Old Age Security and sacred cows: a reality check

   By Henry Friesen on Apr 12, 2012

   What difference does two years make? Quite a lot, apparently! A firestorm erupted when Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s January speech in Europe mentioned an increase to Canada’s retirement age from age 65 to 67. The rhetoric was re-ignited when the…Read More→

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   Need a miracle to pay for college?

   By Henry Friesen on Mar 29, 2012

   The young lady wanted a miracle! That Sunday morning she asked for prayer that her “financial needs for Bible College would be met.” A miracle you ask? Good question! She had requested my assistance with her student loan application, but…Read More→

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   Saving money by giving up privacy: tradeoffs in the digital age

   By Henry Friesen on Feb 16, 2012

   Would you like to get a financial reward for good behaviour? Who wouldn’t? Even bad guys might improve their conduct in exchange for money. TomTom, a maker of GPS devices, wants to help drive down your car insurance premiums. According…Read More→

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   Have a merry (sanitized materialistic) Christmas

   By Michael Krahn on Nov 23, 2010

   That Christmas is a season of Christian worship probably isn’t news to you. For all its materialism, uninhibited spending and consumer debt, there is still some residual knowledge of the fact that the reason we have Christmas is Jesus Christ….Read More→