How do we steward everything God has entrusted to us?

We are called to be good stewards, so understanding biblical principles of stewardship and generosity is essential. Our faith should inform our stewardship decisions, and when faith and finance meet in the way God intended, the results are powerful! We recommend you start your journey by visiting Guiding Foundations and then explore your current life stage.

Life Stages

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Starting Out

For those just starting out and trying to determine next steps.

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Getting Established

For those progressing in a career, starting families, or putting down roots.

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Building Impact

For those in their prime earning years, interested in how their 401k is performing.

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Leaving a Legacy

For those nearing retirement or already retired and desiring to finish well.

Starting Out

Starting out on your own is an exciting and potentially overwhelming time of life. Adopting wise budgeting, spending, credit, retirement savings, and stewardship principles can set you up for a bright future.

In this section of Faith & Finance, you’ll find helpful resources to guide you as you’re finding your way. Get answers to tough questions about things like finances, planning for the future, and getting started on the right foot.

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Getting Established

Juggling relationships, careers, young children, and extracurricular activities can be exhausting – and expensive. Finding the right balance of time and financial resources can be tricky, but it’s also an excellent time to implement solid stewardship and generosity practices. By establishing a good foundation, you can ensure your family is set up well for the future. 

In this section of Faith and Finance, you’ll find many resources to help you confidently navigate as you are getting established.

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Building Impact

This season can be such an exciting time. You might be sending kids to college, becoming empty nesters, earning your highest income, or planning to transition into retirement. So many decisions must be made during this time to ensure you honor the Lord with the impact you are creating.

In this section of Faith and Finance, you’ll find helpful resources to think through those crucial decisions, so you are set up for success.

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Leaving a Legacy

You’ve worked hard. You’ve saved. You’ve done your best to ensure your family will be provided for as retirement is on the horizon. While this is an exciting time and one we all look forward to, there are still some significant things to consider before sailing off into the sunset.

Need to update or create a will or trust? Wondering when to sell business interests or real estate holdings? What about determining how much to leave to your family and favorite ministries? This section of Faith and Finance is for you! Your later years can be the years of your most significant impact. Check out the resources here to learn more about Leaving a Legacy!

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  • "You should have two financial goals in life: to make a little money first, and then to make a little money last."

    Unknown

  • "If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor, indeed. We are bought by the enemy with the treasure in our own coffers."

    Edmund Burke

  • "Every man ought to have money on his mind. No man ought to have money on his heart."

    Anonymous

  • "How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! And to get understanding is to be chosen above silver."

    Proverbs 16:16

  • "The plans of the diligent lead surely to advantage, but everyone who is hasty comes surely to poverty."

    Proverbs 21:5

  • "Divide your portion to seven, or even to eight, for you do not know what misfortune may occur on the earth."

    Ecclesiastes 11:2

  • "Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it."

    Henry David Thoreau

  • "We are not to judge thrift soley by the test of saving or spending. If one spends what he should prudently save, that certainly is to be deplored. But if one saves what he should prudently spend, that is not necessarily to be commended. A wise balance between the two is the desired end."

    Owen D. Young

  • "There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there."

    Colonel Sanders

  • "A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, and the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the righteous."

    Proverbs 13:22

  • "Planning one's finances must take place under the sovereignty of God, recognizing His omnipotence, wisdom, purposes, and plans."

    Ron Blue

  • "If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area of his life."

    Billy Graham

  • "God can have our money and not have our hearts, but He cannot have our hearts without having our money."

    R. Kent Hughes

  • "Command them to do good, to be rich in good deeds, and to be generous and willing to share."

    I Timothy 6:18

  • "Ultimately, financial planning is the predetermined use of financial resources in order to accomplish certain goals and objectives. The difference in financial planning between the Christian and the non-Christian is the belief as to whom the financial resources belong and the source of the goals and objectives."

    Ron Blue

  • "…every spending decision is a spiritual decision"

    Ron Blue

  • "Stewardship is the use of God-given resources for the accomplishment of God-given goals."

    Ron Blue

  • "A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart."

    Jonathan Swift

  • "Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can."

    John Wesley

  • "A man's treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character—how he makes it and how he spends it."

    Moffat

  • "Financial planning is allocating limited financial resources among unlimited alternatives."

    Ron Blue