Following a budget is a great way to be a good steward of the financial resources that God has entrusted to you.

Yet what can you do if your debt is swallowing up not only your budget, but your hopes for financial future as well?

The Good $ense Debt Course, an upcoming Saturday broadcast on CCN , is a great way to help people learn how to get out of consumer debt.

This biblically based, practical workshop allows you to partner with an expert to address a major issue in many peoples' lives — and to provide a means for them to be released from debt's grip.

“Personal debt is at record levels and increasing dramatically,” says Dick Towner, the Executive Director of the Good $ense stewardship movement in for the Willow Creek Association. “People in heavy debt feel trapped and often lose hope of ever getting out of debt.”

The Good $ense Debt Course is a tested tool that helps people regain hope by applying God's principles to their financial situation. Seminar host Dick Towner is an experienced practitioner in helping people overcome debt.

This high-energy, three-hour seminar will help your congregation understand:

• Spiritual dangers of debt
• What the Bible says about debt
• Practical solutions for getting out of debt
• Long-term plans for staying out of debt

With consumers more than $2 billion in debt (and that's not counting home mortgages), isn't it time to help the people of your church discover a good, sensible way to get out of debt — and stay out!

Dick Towner is the Willow Creek Association's executive director for the Good Sense Stewardship Movement. He is also the primary author of the WCA's Good Sense curriculum. Prior to arriving at Willow Creek Community Church in 1992, Dick served 13 years as the minister of administration at a church in Cincinnati . He also spent 14 years in university administration. Dick serves on the board of Christian Stewardship Association and on the President's Council of Christian Management Association.