About Us

• The No Debt No Sweat! Ministry
• Steve Diggs

The No Debt No Sweat! Financial Ministry

For a number of years we had noticed a number of our church's members dealing with financial problems. These struggles often damaged their physical, emotional, and spiritual health. Marriage relationships were harmed. Spiritual health was damaged. Kingdom work was hindered.

Like most Elderships, ours was at a loss. Giving away money and other band-aid “cures” only camouflaged the real problems. Money, spending, and debt struggles are often rooted in spiritual issues that must be addressed before real healing can begin. Learning to say “no” to instant gratification and materialism is tough. Looking to God for our worth and value is tough. Taking responsibility for our actions is tough. We needed a real solution.

Steve’s No Debt No Sweat! teachings on Christian money management have had a profound effect on the family at Antioch. Our people are learning to live within their means. Some are able to give more. Marriages are closer. Others have learned how to avoid bankruptcy. Steve’s message doesn’t pander to the “wealth and prosperity” teachings that are so popular today. Instead he gives clear, simple, practical solutions with a Biblical base. This stuff really works!

No Debt, No Sweat! has broad appeal. It speaks to people who are financially sound and looking for investment strategies. It is also aimed at the audience who is in financial turmoil and needs a successful plan for getting out of debt.

Parents will find that No Debt, No Sweat! speaks to their teenagers and college students. It shows young people how to preact—so they won’t spend their lives reacting to financial catastrophes. It gives them solid reasons not to be suckered into the on-campus credit card sellers. It teaches positive ways to buy cars without borrowing money. In a phrase: Our kids learn to avoid our mistakes.

This is also the ultimate “couples seminar.” Husbands and wives will attend it together as they refocus their budgeting and investing programs. They will use what they learn to buy homes, select which insurance coverages they need, and teach their youngsters about money. As the kids get older, families will use the strategies to plan for college—without years of loan repayments. The strong spiritual focus and biblical emphasis will bring balance to the late night infomercials and “name-it-and-claim-it” teachers that besiege.

Empty nesters find the investing and retirement planning strategies easy to understand and encouraging—even if they are starting late.

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Steve Diggs

For over 25 years Steve headed The Franklin Group, Inc., a company he founded in 1972. In 2000 he sold the firm and went into full time ministry. Since the release of No Debt No Sweat! (Steve's third book) his ministry has been fully devoted to writing, counseling and presenting the No Debt No Sweat! Live Seminar over 200 times nationwide.

A 1974 graduate of David Lipscomb College, Steve later taught in that school's business department. As a young man he preached for a middle Tennessee church, hosted a Christian radio program, and several other radio and television shows.

Steve has also been a private investor and real estate agent. His second book, Free To Succeed was a popular Bible class study. Today Steve is a minister at the Antioch Church of Christ in Nashville where his family has been active members since 1977. He has published five books and over a hundred articles. Steve and Bonnie have four grown children whom they home schooled. The family lives in Brentwood, Tennessee-a Nashville suburb.

The Antioch Church

We hold the Bible to be God's word, the only source of our faith and practice. Our objective is to "restore" the New Testament church in our time - to determine from the Bible what the church was like in the beginning, and to be like that. We believe this is a worthy and reverent goal.

Founded in 1892, today church attendance runs between 800-900 on a typical Sunday morning. We are overseen by eight Elders, and have a staff of six ministers, and four support staff.

For more information go to http://antiochcofc.org/