One More Week

Next Friday, June 1, will be the launch date for the new financial blog for Christians, “Where Your Treasure Is.” The four writers: Wes Hazel, James Dalton, Joey Sparks and I are all looking forward to a successful launch.

We hope this blog will be of some help to you. We all struggle with money in one way or another, and we sincerely pray that this effort will help us all come closer to the Biblical way of using our monies and possessions.

If you have not done so yet, please bookmark the site, Where Your Treasure Is.

Also,

• If you are a member of Technorati, there is a link on the blog for you to add Where Your Treasure Is to your favorites.
• If you have not done so, please pass along word about the blog through emails or word-of-mouth.
• Check out the article Joey Sparks wrote on his blog about the launch.
• Go to the blog and click on “subscribe to: posts (atom)” to get updates about articles as they are added.
• Most importantly, pray for this effort. We certainly are.

We hope to see you in one week on Where Your Treasure Is!

Just Two Weeks Away

Two weeks from today, the new blog dealing with the Christian and personal finance will launch. We are still on schedule to launch on June 1.

We ask you to do three things:

1. Spread the word. Send an email with a link to this article or to the site itself. This blog is going to take much work, but it will be worth it if people actually read the content!

2. Link to the blog. We have already registered the blog on Technorati. So, if your blog or personal site is registered there, too, you will help us out by linking to it with an article.

3. Pray for this effort. While we are sure mistakes will be made along the way, we really feel as if this is going to be an effort that is needed. We are excited about the launch and we hope it will help many people use the money God has entrusted to them in the right way.

Remember, the site is Where Your Treasure Is. Go ahead and bookmark it today!

Where Your Treasure Is

Faughnblog: The Big Announcement!

The Big Announcement!!!

Since last Friday, we have been mentioning that a big announcement would be unveiled this week. So, of course, we waited all the way until Friday to unveil it.

So, what is it?

Four preachers, including me, have been working together on an idea for a new blog, and today we are giving you a “preview” of this new work.

Joey Sparks of Jasper, Alabama; Wes Hazel of Manchester, Tennessee; James Dalton of Blytheville, Arkansas; and Adam are all four going to be administrators and writers for the new blog.

Most “blogging experts” say that, for a blog to be successful, it must be focused in on a specific subject area. That is the idea behind our new work. The four of us have divided up areas of responsibility, but all articles will deal with the Christian and finance.

The blog is called “Where Your Treasure Is: Merging Faith and Personal Finance.” The masthead, designed by Joey Sparks, is pictured below:

We hope, through this blog, to give a Biblical perspective on finance. All four of us admit, we are not experts in how to handle money. That is part of the purpose of this blog. By writing articles dealing with the Bible and finance, giving, frugal living, saving, investing, debt reduction and other areas, we hope to help ourselves as well as each reader. We are going to be very open about our own finances, both positively and negatively. We hope you will celebrate our victories and “boo” our defeats!

The blog will feature articles written by each author, and also links to other helpful sites and articles. Our initial goal is to average at least two posts per day (at least 60 per month). By giving you this many resources, you should want to come back daily to learn–with us–about the Bible and finance.

So many websites and blogs deal with money, but very few have a Christian viewpoint. We want to change that. Yes, there will be a lot of articles and links dealing with “general” finance, but all will be chosen to help you give more to the Lord, save more for your family and avoid having your heart in this world.

The blog will be unveiled on Friday, June 1. Please pass along a link to this article in emails to friends, coworkers, family members,…well, anyone!

Oh, yeah, and go ahead and bookmark the site: http://whereyourtreasureis.blogspot.com.

One More Page Change

We have removed the “May We Recommend” section from the right-hand side of the page. It was a good way to put some good material up for you to see on Amazon.com, but it cluttered the sidebar too much. Now there are just links to good, helpful websites and Google News stories.

Please continue to spread the word about our blog.

A big announcement is coming this week!