October 6, 2024 — Episode #40

Continuing last week’s conversation on finances, Jerry and Becky Drace ask a simple question with a complicated answer: what can money actually buy, and what can it never buy?

They offer a practical, percentage-based approach to budgeting — tithing, savings, housing, food, and debt repayment — and run through a list of things no amount of money can purchase, including peace, health, respect, and salvation. Drawing on the Apostle Paul’s example of contentment, they warn against comparing your family’s finances to others’, including celebrity marriages that look wealthy but are often empty, and share a story about a wealthy man’s wife who longed for the presence of God in her home more than anything money could buy.

Topics discussed:

• What true wealth means versus material riches
• A practical percentage-based budgeting guide
• Contentment and the Apostle Paul’s example
• Things money cannot buy: peace, health, respect, and salvation
• Avoiding comparison with others’ finances or celebrity marriages
• Proverbs 11:24 and Matthew 6:19-21
• Praying for wisdom over financial decisions

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