Broke: How Not to Give Up When Climbing Out of Debt

by Thor Ramsey

Have you ever struggled with debt? Wait. Let me rephrase that question. Do you live in America? Did you once believe that 90 days was the same as cash? Me, too. Broke chronicles my climb out of the financial hole I dug. (By the way, you should only dig holes if you plan on filling them with treasure.) Along the way, I discovered that my debt didn’t just reflect my bad decisions. It was a spiritual issue, “for where your treasure is there your heart will also be.” Apparently, my heart was in overdraft. Broke will shine some funny hope into your messy money life. This book is for the days you feel like giving up, encouraging you to take a step closer to being debt-free. People want to know if other people are as dumb as they are – and thankfully, I am. And if I can climb out of debt, you can, too.

153 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 8, 2017

About the author

Thor Ramsey is a comedian, writer and pastor who studied English Literature and Hellenistic Greek at Texas Christian University where he nearly graduated. Even though he also studied theology at Westminster Seminary (California), he is best known for the Thou Shalt Laugh DVDs and his stint as host of the comedy series Bananas. Thor had entertained thoughts of being a comedian since high school, thoughts he shared with a high school friend. “She had a dream one night that I did ‘The Tonight Show,” he said. She told him that he “had a good set, which always stuck with me. I thought, ‘Well, if you’re not going to follow your own dreams, you might as well follow somebody else’s.’” So, beginning in 1987, he was soon working forty-two weeks a year traveling the country as a standup comedian and continues to perform at special comedy events today. Eventually, he realized that “most comedians are just preachers who haven’t answered their call.” Thus, in addition to performing at comedy events, Thor helped plant Emmaus Church in Redlands, California, which is going strong in its eighth year. Then he served as teaching pastor of the Threshold services at Canyon Lake Community Church for four years and is now the lead pastor of a brand new church plant in Lake Elsinore, California called Center Church. Three publishers have been daring enough to distribute his books and one independently wealthy individual who is good friends with Stephen Baldwin has seen fit to finance his screenplay Youth Group, which he will also star in this coming year (2016). He lives in Southern California with his wife Dinika, daughters Eden Olivia and Kate Tulip and just the right distance from his mother-in-law, Maureen, to remain on speaking terms with her.