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Biblical Wisdom for Approaching Wealth, Money & Your Work - Roy Goble

Making It Work Podcast

How important are wealth and money to your job, and how important should they be? What insight can the Bible offer about...

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The Impact of Biblically Responsible Investing - Rachel McDonough (Podcast Episode 18)

Making It Work Podcast

What should you do with your money? Should you save? Invest? Give it away? These questions have...

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Executive Health Care Makes its Biggest Impact on Poor Workers (Video)

Businesses become heroes by offering executive services to the poorest workers.

Best of Daily Reflections: The Best Way to Bless the Poor

Daily Reflection

Our tendency may be to see the poor as “different” or the poor themselves to be to blame for their poverty. How...

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All Things New: From the Inside Out

No word portrays the condition of the homes of this neighborhood better than broken.

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Ken Duncan Video Study Guide

Ken Duncan is one of the world’s most important landscape photographers. He and his wife, Pam, founded what today includes three galleries and a profitable Web site that sell Ken’s amazing photography, as...

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God Hears the Groans of the Poor

Daily Reflection

Yesterday we focused on Romans 8:23, where it says that we join creation in groaning. Though life can be filled with many blessings, there are times when we suffer and when we cry...

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If the Poor Will Always Be Here, Why Bother?

Jesus consistently helps those who have no helper. In many ways, the anointing of this woman was the “blessing of the wretched”...

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Can We Really Love Someone Through Intermediaries?

If finance is a means of care and love, doing finance through intermediaries raises a question. Can we love someone we do...

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Instruments

Financial instruments are promises between two or more parties with differing resource needs which are tailored to allow both parties to be prudent risk takers when the future is unknown. As argued above...

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Making Lending Decisions

How does our finance theology inform whether to make a loan to a particular customer and at what interest rate? Several of the foundations of biblical finance come to the fore here. First...

We are to develop and model right attitudes to provision and wealth

From an Attitude of Ownership to Trusteeship

The first humans were directed by God to take care of the Garden and all creatures and plants within it. This is...

We are to change our personal lifestyles

From a Lifestyle of Self-Sufficient Individualism to Community

One of the more frequent words translated as “community” or “fellowship” in the New Testament is koinonia. This was a well-used word...

We are to change our personal lifestyles

From a Lifestyle of Isolationism to Personal Engagement

The temptation of those who have much to become isolated from those who have little is very real. High-fenced houses, air-conditioned cars...

We are to use our wealth for the aid of those in poverty

Aiding the Poor Through Giving

When we are genuinely aware of the presence of God’s grace in our lives, our grateful hearts inevitably overflow into generous giving. Jesus directs his disciples, “Freely you have received, freely give” (Matthew...

Aiding the poor through investing

Aiding the Poor Through Investing

While giving is a fundamental way of using wealth to aid those caught in poverty, wise investment of wealth can also be very effective in helping the poor. There are many examples of...

We are to use our wealth for the aid of those in poverty

Aiding the Poor Through Spending

It may seem odd to suggest that spending is potentially a way to aid those in poverty. We often associate spending with excessive consumption. Many Christians hold a frugality mentality that regards spending...

We are to change the organizations and structures of society

We Are to Change the Organizations and Structures of Society

Christians are called to work not only at the small enterprise and person-to-person level in seeking to alleviate poverty, but also at...

We are to work with non believers to increase provision and reduce poverty

We Are to Work With Non-Believers to Increase Provision and Reduce Poverty

At a number of points in Scripture, God uses those who aren’t his followers, to bring about...

Nehemiah a positive role model

Nehemiah - A Positive Role Model

Nehemiah is one biblical character whose attitudes, lifestyle, strategies and priorities work together to change society for the betterment of poor people. As governor of the city of Jerusalem—working for a foreign power—he...

Roy goble wealth money bible miw cover podcast banner square

Biblical Wisdom for Approaching Wealth, Money & Your Work - Roy Goble

Making It Work Podcast

How important are wealth and money to your job, and how important should they be? What insight can the Bible offer about...

Rachelm 500x500 podcast banner square

The Impact of Biblically Responsible Investing - Rachel McDonough (Podcast Episode 18)

Making It Work Podcast

What should you do with your money? Should you save? Invest? Give it away? These questions have...

Executive health screening for poor workers

Executive Health Care Makes its Biggest Impact on Poor Workers (Video)

Businesses become heroes by offering executive services to the poorest workers.

Best of Daily Reflections: The Best Way to Bless the Poor

Daily Reflection

Our tendency may be to see the poor as “different” or the poor themselves to be to blame for their poverty. How...

152630018 5967528523 o

All Things New: From the Inside Out

No word portrays the condition of the homes of this neighborhood better than broken.

4141 478x358

Ken Duncan Video Study Guide

Ken Duncan is one of the world’s most important landscape photographers. He and his wife, Pam, founded what today includes three galleries and a profitable Web site that sell Ken’s amazing photography, as...

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God Hears the Groans of the Poor

Daily Reflection

Yesterday we focused on Romans 8:23, where it says that we join creation in groaning. Though life can be filled with many blessings, there are times when we suffer and when we cry...

22881741992 0cdfa3dadf k

If the Poor Will Always Be Here, Why Bother?

Jesus consistently helps those who have no helper. In many ways, the anointing of this woman was the “blessing of the wretched”...

620px yuanta bank hq in yuanta financial tower

Can We Really Love Someone Through Intermediaries?

If finance is a means of care and love, doing finance through intermediaries raises a question. Can we love someone we do...

Business 163870 620

Instruments

Financial instruments are promises between two or more parties with differing resource needs which are tailored to allow both parties to be prudent risk takers when the future is unknown. As argued above...

Tax office 233345 620

Making Lending Decisions

How does our finance theology inform whether to make a loan to a particular customer and at what interest rate? Several of the foundations of biblical finance come to the fore here. First...

We are to develop and model right attitudes to provision and wealth

From an Attitude of Ownership to Trusteeship

The first humans were directed by God to take care of the Garden and all creatures and plants within it. This is...

We are to change our personal lifestyles

From a Lifestyle of Self-Sufficient Individualism to Community

One of the more frequent words translated as “community” or “fellowship” in the New Testament is koinonia. This was a well-used word...

We are to change our personal lifestyles

From a Lifestyle of Isolationism to Personal Engagement

The temptation of those who have much to become isolated from those who have little is very real. High-fenced houses, air-conditioned cars...

We are to use our wealth for the aid of those in poverty

Aiding the Poor Through Giving

When we are genuinely aware of the presence of God’s grace in our lives, our grateful hearts inevitably overflow into generous giving. Jesus directs his disciples, “Freely you have received, freely give” (Matthew...

Aiding the poor through investing

Aiding the Poor Through Investing

While giving is a fundamental way of using wealth to aid those caught in poverty, wise investment of wealth can also be very effective in helping the poor. There are many examples of...

We are to use our wealth for the aid of those in poverty

Aiding the Poor Through Spending

It may seem odd to suggest that spending is potentially a way to aid those in poverty. We often associate spending with excessive consumption. Many Christians hold a frugality mentality that regards spending...

We are to change the organizations and structures of society

We Are to Change the Organizations and Structures of Society

Christians are called to work not only at the small enterprise and person-to-person level in seeking to alleviate poverty, but also at...

We are to work with non believers to increase provision and reduce poverty

We Are to Work With Non-Believers to Increase Provision and Reduce Poverty

At a number of points in Scripture, God uses those who aren’t his followers, to bring about...

Nehemiah a positive role model

Nehemiah - A Positive Role Model

Nehemiah is one biblical character whose attitudes, lifestyle, strategies and priorities work together to change society for the betterment of poor people. As governor of the city of Jerusalem—working for a foreign power—he...