Christian Financial Resources to Get Organized in the New Year

If tax season has you concerned about what is going on with your finances, help is here!

We found a web site that is packed full of the Top 50 Christian Business and Finance Blogs that will help you understand how to organize your own personal finances, get out of debt, set up college funds, save for retirement, invest, understand legalese of financial issues and much more.

Some of these resources include:

• ChristianPF.com: This site gives advice on everything from credit card tips, building personal wealth to banking tips. Also be sure to check out the “Money in the Bible” category to help you see your priorities more clearly.
• Gather by Little: Use simple Bible tips to help you increase your personal wealth, “little by little.”
• Why Religion is an Important Part of Personal Finance: Read articles about how to save money by cutting costs in unlikely places.
• Christian Finance Blog: Browse categories like taxes, retirement, emergency fund, and more. This blog gives great financial advice that is “relevant to today?s Christian.” Don?t forget to check out the verse of the day!
• Free Money Finance: Find tons of helpful resources on this blog inlcuding saving for your kids? college tuition, holiday spending trends, and Biblical investing.
• Fallible.com: Katy McKenna Raymond writes about her personal Christian experiences often touching on money and finance.
• Good Sense Ministry: Learn about the financial and spiritual benefits of stewardship.
• Crown Financial Ministries: This site gives valuable information on organizing and understanding your money.

This is one page you will want to bookmark and refer to often!

Free Book Offer of “Heaven is Real”

Cecil Murphy is the author or co-author of hundreds of books including, “90 Minutes in Heaven” with Don Piper (which is available in the Rest Ministries
bookstore – it’s a great book!)

This week his assistant, Twila, shared that “Cec’s books are taking over my world! That’s good news for you.”

Her offer?

If you purchase a copy of Cec’s newest gift book, Words of Comfort for Times of Loss: Help and Hope When You’re Grieving for $11, I will give you a hardback copy of Heaven Is Real: Lessons on Earthly Joy–What Happened After 90 Minutes in Heaven (by Cecil an Don Piper, author of 90 Minutes in Heaven)

This is a $22 value free and good only while supplies last. (These will go fast!)

You may want to read these yourselves or donate them to your church library, a grief support group, a ministry, or give them to a friend. Contact Twila at twila@gottatellsomebody.com or 563-332-1622.

Cold Hands? Try a Heated Computer Mouse

Brrrrrr. . . it will just getting to you? If you’re sitting at your computer desk with cold hands trying to type, and yet you are trying to conserve and not turn up the heat, this inexpensive heated computer mouse and other accessories may be just the ticket.

According to the company warmmouse.com:

The Warm Computer Mouse is a new product by ValueRays(TM) and available online. A Warm Mouse uses infrared heat to create a soothing deep penetrating warmth to your mouse hand. Infrared heat warm mouse improves blood circulation and relieve tension and stress to the mouse hand.

The Warm Computer Mouse retails for just $25.95, which is around the same price range as most computer mice. There is also a heated, warm mouse, heated, warm mouse pad, a heated, warm keyboard pad and a fleece mouse hand warmer blanket pouch to house the warm mouse and warm mouse pad.

You can find them all at IGM Products .

Most are connected to the computer with a USB port using a low 5v electrical current.

IGM Products state:

The heated computer mouse, heated mouse pad and heated keyboard pad are made using a carbon fiber. Carbon fibers create infrared heat. Infrared heat has healing qualities making the time the user spends holding the warm computer mouse therapeutic in nature. Studies reveal a minimum of 20-30 minutes daily of infrared therapy has healing effects.

So, what do you think? If you decide to try it let us know by coming back and writing a review!

Audio Bible is Exceptional When You Don’t Feel Well

Can’t concentrate to read? Missing reading The Word?

Lisa saw the promotional video for The Bible Experience at a Christian retail show and was blown away! She bought it for herself for Christmas a couple of years ago. Now YOU can watch this video below, thanks to Zondervan and YouTube.

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It truly brings the story to life and features voices from Denzel Washington, Angela Bassett, Cuba Gooding Jr., Samuel L. Jackson, Bishop T.D. Jakes, Blair Underwood, Yolanda Adams, Shirley Ceasar, Faith Evans, Kirk Franklin, and more.

Do yourself a favor watch the video. It was originally priced at $50 so this is a great deal and you can listen to it in bed! Get it here.

Longing for Someone to Say… “I’m Proud of You”?

When was the last time you heard these words? A touching book that Lisa recently read and gives 5 stars is I’m Proud of You: My Friendship with Fred Rogers by reporter Tim Madigan.

And if you really do have a hankering to hear someone say those words, drop by Mister Roger’s web site where he will sing “I’m Proud of You” as well as other classics like “You are Special” and “I’m Still Myself Inside.”

And we thought this Presbyterian minister was ministering just to kids! Here at Rest Ministries we think most of us can relate with his messages.

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Freebies for Your 2010 Birthday

Since it is the beginning of the year we figured you probably have a new calendar. Don’t be shy to put your own birthday on that calendar! And while you’re at it, we thought you may be interested in some of the goodies we have found for people all over the country in the USA who are having a birthday. There are far too many of us who have a chronic illness and therefore, are unable to spend extra money on eating dinner out splurging on a desert.

If you go to the website Free Birthday Treats you will find a wide selection of free or discounted forms of entertainment, restaurant discounts, or actual freebies, and other services. You can select by state and if you want to view just free items or services or also discounts.

For example, it lists restaurants where you may get a free meal, but where are the people accompanying you also receive a free dessert. How cool is that?

Some of these freebies require that you sign up for e-mail notifications or make your plans in advance. So don’t wait until the day of your birthday to check out this site. Visit it now to see what things you may want to select for your birthday.

The good news is many of them are also offered during the week of your day or the month of your birthday, you don’t have to get your car washed, go have dinner, grab ice cream, and hit an amusement park all on the same day.

Be sure to pass this on to friends or relatives who also have children. There is a special area of the website which offers just for kids.

Even Minimal Activity Decreases Depression

If you are stuck in a rut right now and feeling the blues of winter you likely have heard how exercise can boost your mood and decrease levels of depression. However, when your body is sore and you are feeling depressed, who actually feels like exercising? Personally, we’d much rather grab a bowl of macaroni and cheese and watch a Lifetime movie.

The good news is that although lots of studies may have shown that exercise can decrease depression, a new health survey done in Britain with 20,000 people, has revealed that it actually takes very little physical activity to lift your spirits. Just 1-3 twenty-minute sessions a week of activity reduced people’s suffering of depression.

In fact, they found that the biggest impact on one’s mood, came from doing anything — even mopping the floor — for at least 20 minutes a day. Mark Hamer, PhD of the University College of London, says “Daily activity knocks down the distress score by more than half.”

Though you may not want to run and grab a mop to chase those blues away, these findings are good to keep in mind when you are debating about whether you should go for that short walk, get up and play tennis with your Wii, or throw a ball with your dog for a few minutes. It’s encouraging to find that even minimal exercise in short intervals can significantly impact our mental health.

Visit Web Sites On a Regular Schedule

If you have a bunch of web sites you like to visit every week, but your mind doesn’t want to wrap around the technology options to remind you to do this via feeds or widgets, etc. this service may be a great fit!

My Weekly Browsing Schedule is a Firefox extension (that means you would need to be using Mozilla Firefox rather than Internet Explorer – we use MF around here!)

It  opens your favorite web sites automatically based on what day of the week, and time, you have specified.

Just add the current page (or add from your bookmarks), choose the day and time, and you’re done. You can also specify certain websites to open when you open up your browser.

All of these can be great ways to keep up with health or illness web sites or news you want to check with on a regular basis, but you don’t necessarily want to be added to their mailing lists.

Saturday is Religious Freedom Day

Religious Freedom Day is officially proclaimed on January 16th each year by an annual statement by the President of the United States when he calls upon Americans to “observe this day through appropriate events and activities in homes, schools, and places of worship.”

Read more about this event at their official web site or at the National Day of Prayer’s site.

Share Your Used Christian Books!

Love Packages collects them and sends them to English-speaking countries in Europe, Africa and Asia.

They received nearly 8 tons of items last year that were used to change lives! Books can be sent to Butler, Illinois, or call the ministry to see if a truck is in your area. They send them all over the country.

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