Financial Peace University Lesson Topics
It's hard to be spiritually free when you are in economic bondage.  Getting rid of debt and living on a plan is the key to financial stability and building wealth.  Financial Peace University is a bibilically based, accountability class that teaches how to manage your resources in a Godly manner.  Dave Ramsey, best selling author and popular radio talk show host, does all the teaching on 13 video lessons.  Following the video, the class facilitator leads small group discussion.  This is where true accountability and behavior change occurs.  The group takes the baby steps needed to walk them to financial peace. 

Teaching: FPU teaches financial stewardship – how to manage 100% of what God has given.   One lesson is taught each week and the 13 topics are:

• Super Savers – the importance of saving money. Go to the ant, you sluggard! Consider her ways and be wise…Which, having no captain, overseer or ruler…Provides her supplies in the summer; and gathers her food in the harvest… Proverbs 6:6-9
• Cash Flow Planning – step by step how to put together a zero based monthly budget. For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not sit down first and count the cost… Luke 14:28-30
• Relating with Money – the importance of working together in relationships and how we handle money. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Matthew 6:21
• Buying Only Big, Big Bargains – How to negotiate and get the very best deals. A false balance is an abomination to the Lord, but a just weight is His delight. Proverbs 11:1
• Dumping Debt – how to get out of debt and stay out of debt. The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender. Proverbs 22:7
• Understanding Investments – difference between stocks, bonds, mutual funds, cds, annuities. The plans of the diligent lead surely to plenty, But those of everyone who is hasty, surely to poverty. Proverbs 21:5
• Understanding Insurance – learn the types of coverage we need for all insurance needs. A prudent man sees evil and hides himself, the naïve proceed and pay the penalty. Proverbs 27:12
• Retirement and College Planning – understanding retirement funds, the Roth IRA, and how to best fund our child’s college education. A good man leaves an inheritance for his children’s children… Proverbs 13:22
• Buyer Beware – being marketed to and the keys to developing the power over purchases. The blessings of the Lord makes one rich, And He adds no sorrow with it. Proverbs 10:22.
• Real Estate and Mortgages – best way to buy and sell a house and to finance a home. Prepare your outside work, make it fit for yourself in the field; and afterward build your house. Proverbs 24:27
• Careers and Extra Jobs – importance of doing with our life that which we love. God has given each of you some special abilities; be sure to use them to help each other; passing on to others God’s many kinds of blessings. I Peter 4:10
• Collection Practices and Credit Bureaus – how to check and clean up our credit report and deal with collection agencies. Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do so. Proverbs 3:27
• The Great Misunderstanding – importance of being good managers over the blessings we have been given and to share them. The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof … Psalms 24:1

Financial Peace University classes will begin in the fall of 2008.