Navigating Your Finances God's Way

by Howard Dayton (Foreword), Compass (Editor)

Navigating Your Finances
273 pages
Hardcover
Compass Finances Gods Way
ASIN: 0983133131

273 pages, Hardcover

About the author

HOWARD DAYTON was born in Daytona Beach, Florida in 1943. After graduating from the School of Hotel Administration at Cornell University in 1967, he served two and a half years as a naval officer. In 1969, he developed a successful railroad-themed restaurant in Orlando, Florida. Howard began his commercial real estate development career in 1972, specializing in office development in the Central Florida area.
In 1974, after a business partner challenged him to study the Scriptures to discover what God teaches about handling money, Howard's life was profoundly changed. The Lord gave him a passion to share the life-changing principles he discovered, resulting in the authorship of four books, including Your Money: Frustration or Freedom, Your Money Counts, Free and Clear, Your Money Map, and his most recent title, Money and Marriage God’s Way.
Howard founded Crown Ministries in 1985 and developed a remarkably effective small group financial study. Crown Ministries merged with Larry Burkett’s Christian Financial Concepts in September 2000 to form Crown Financial Ministries®, the world's largest financial ministry.
Howard and his wife, Beverly, were married in 1971 and have two grown children, Matthew and Danielle. Howard and Beverly reside in Gainesville, Georgia, and have just completed leading their 55th small group.

Reviews

[Jody · Rating 3 out of 5]

For me, this was a one or two star book. Nothing new to learn, given that I was raised by frugal parents who are wise with investing, giving, and spending. They taught us early on about saving and handling money thoughtfully (and from a Scriptural perspective).

That said, for anyone who has not been given the financial and Scriptural tools I was, this book and the accompanying videos could be very useful/practical. There are worksheets (practical), Scriptural reflections (reflective and practical), and discussion questions that could facilitate good conversations. Not all of the questions were helpful or to the point, but if you're discussing them with a group (as I was) you can pick and choose which ones were most thought-provoking/beneficial and discuss those.

Aside from the group conversations/interactions I had with this course, the most beneficial thing was the large sections of Scripture in the last section of each chapter to read and ruminate on.