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Series: Faith & Finance — A Christian's Guide to the Real Economy | Part 7 of 7 — Series FinaleThere's a version of this final column that ends neatly.It wraps up the series with a tidy bow: here are your seven principles, here is your checklist, here is the Christian...
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Series: Faith & Finance — A Christian's Guide to the Real Economy | Part 6 of 7I got the call on a Thursday afternoon.A friend of mine — fifteen years in business, solid reputation, faithful churchgoer, genuinely generous man — told me his largest client had just walked. The client...
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Series: Faith & Finance — A Christian's Guide to the Real Economy | Part 5 of 7A business owner I know — I'll call him Ray — won a contract a few years ago that he probably shouldn't have bid on.The scope was bigger than he'd handled before. He knew...
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Series: Faith & Finance — A Christian's Guide to the Real Economy | Part 4 of 7My brother-in-law called me on a Tuesday."Hey, I know this is a big ask — but my buddy from church needs someone to co-sign his car loan. He's had some credit issues. I vouched...
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Series: Faith & Finance — A Christian's Guide to the Real Economy | Part 3 of 7For years, I gave my ten percent and considered the matter closed.It was a clean transaction: God gets His cut, I keep mine. I'd even worked out a quiet pride about it — I...
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Series: Faith & Finance — A Christian's Guide to the Real Economy | Part 2 of 7My friend Daniel sends the same text every Sunday night at 9 p.m."Ugh. Tomorrow."He's a good man. Faithful husband, devoted father, consistent tither. He serves on the hospitality team at church and genuinely loves...
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Is Money Evil? What the Bible Actually Says (And What It Doesn't)Series: Faith & Finance — A Christian's Guide to the Real Economy | Part 1 of 7I still remember the Sunday my offering envelope came back.I was twenty-six, freshly promoted, and feeling quietly proud of the bigger check I'd...
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I remember exactly where I was when I saw the news that Bitcoin had dropped 30% in a single week. I was standing in the kitchen, making coffee on a Tuesday morning. My phone was already buzzing with messages from friends, some panicking, some gloating. And I remember thinking: why...
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A friend sent me a meme last year: a picture of a Bitcoin chart next to Matthew 19:24 — "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God." The caption read: "Crypto bros reading...
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I spent a summer in seminary studying Acts, and one passage that kept nagging at me wasn't about prayer or preaching. It was Acts 6:1–6 — the moment the early church realized they needed people specifically tasked with managing money and resources well. They didn't just pick anyone. They chose...
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I'll never forget the moment a friend from my home church pulled me aside after a Sunday service. He'd made $40,000 on Ethereum in 2021. Then he lost most of it by 2022. He wasn't asking me about money. He was asking me whether he'd sinned — whether greed had...
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I heard one story from my seminary student: My father-in-law called me on a Tuesday afternoon last spring. He'd been at his men's Bible study and someone had mentioned Bitcoin — again. "Every week someone brings it up," he said, half exasperated. "I just smile and nod. I have no...
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