401k's and retirement funds

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Brother Schoel, this may help!

Mt 6:19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where
moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
Mt 6:20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
Mt 6:21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Mt 6:22 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be
single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
Mt 6:23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of
darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness,
how great is that darkness!
Mt 6:24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate
the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one,
and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Mt 6:25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what
ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
Mt 6:26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they
reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
Mt 6:27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
Mt 6:28 And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of
the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
Mt 6:29 And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory
was not arrayed like one of these.
Mt 6:30 Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to
day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
Mt 6:31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or,
What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
Mt 6:32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your
heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
Mt 6:33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

Mt 6:34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow
shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto
the day is the evil thereof.

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What is a Christian ethics based IRA?

livingink

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What is a Christian ethics based IRA?

It filters companies out of its investments that profit from pornography, abortion, alcohol, tobacco, etc.

The Timothy Plan is one I'm currently researching
http://www.timothyplan.com

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i honestly had never even thought about this before; i always assumed it was good stewardship to save for the future; of course they didnt have 401ks and the like and they also didnt live as long in NT times (in general). i dont think the "love of money" necessarily has to have anything to do with saving for older age. it might, but it doesnt have to. if you dont save for your own future, who is going to come to your rescue when the paychecks stop? sure, God could, but he also might be expecting us to save now. it just seems a tad irresponsible to simply hope for the best when we can no longer work.

but the fact that i have never even felt convicted by this and the fact that so many of you have been leads me to believe that joining this forum is going to provide a lot of great challenges... these discussions are outstanding!

thx, Todd