Biblical financial principles pdf

MONEY ISSUES are HEART ISSUES.

As you think about your money, what are your hopes? Do you want to understand your finances better? Do you want to be able to successfully face financial challenges and meet financial goals? Do you want to be able to communicate effectively about money with those you love? Ultimately, I want you to handle money from a confident place — empowered by biblical financial wisdom. No small task, right?

In this short guide, I will offer a framework for thinking differently about money. It comes from a few simple truths about money that I’ve condensed as I’ve shared biblical financial wisdom with people over a five-decade career. Based on my experience of delivering financial advice to individuals and families in all circumstances of life, I know with certainty that God’s Word speaks authoritatively, timelessly, and simply to all financial planning and decision-making.

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RON BLUE is the founding director of Kingdom Advisors and the author of nearly 20 books on biblical financial topics, including Never Enough? Three Keys to Financial Contentment. He has most recently created a small-group curriculum, God Owns It All. Ron is the chief executive officer of the Ron Blue Institute for Financial Planning at Indiana Wesleyan University. In 1979, he founded Ronald Blue & Co. (now Ronald Blue Trust), the largest Christian financial planning firm in the country. He and his wife, Judy, have five children and thirteen grandchildren and live in Atlanta, Georgia.

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The 4 H Tool

HEART

I want you to handle your money from a confident place — empowered by biblical financial wisdom.

HAT IF I TOLD YOU that it is possible to understand financial issues without having to know all about spreadsheets and retirement plans? Would you feel relief?

As you think about your money, what are your hopes? Do you want to understand your finances better? Do you want to be able to successfully face financial challenges and meet financial goals? Do you want to be able to communicate effectively about money with those you love? Ultimately, I want you to handle money from a confident place — empowered by biblical financial wisdom.

No small task, right?

The roadblocks are many, and you know them well.

First off, starting a money conversation — even an internal one — can feel like kicking an ant pile: you never know how many poisonous things will come out!

Know this: money issues are heart issues.

When money comes up, you and I instinctively fear conflict, exposure, shame, or loss of control. These fears are real, and they come from the heart. Examining financial priorities and motivations, trying to untangle what’s messy, or charting a course toward what’s true unearths heart-level priorities, motivations, and truth systems. Financial conversations take you to places that require courage and deep honesty. These places can be uncomfortable, and that’s okay!

The beauty of having an honest money conversation is that you open yourself up to profound change that yields both financial and heart-level freedom.

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