Kingdom-Focused Finances for the Family

Kingdom-Focused Finances for the Family

Kingdom-Focused Finances for the Family is easy to understand and enjoyable to read; it is Kingdom teaching for a Kingdom-focused people. Author Gary Miller disassembles our view of finances and carefully puts it all back together in a way that makes sense. With its common sense approach to personal finances and an emphasis on glorifying God, this book is realistic, humorous, and serious about helping us become stewards instead of owners. An excerpt from Kingdom-Focused Finances: I began to view the small items in a store in a new way. A bag of potato chips at $1 may not seem too expensive. Surely I can afford a bag of chips! But when I realize buying those chips every day can cost me several hundred dollars a year, a bag of chips begins to look amazingly overpriced. Suddenly some of my habitual purchases became less attractive, and I began to realize the price displayed in the store was not the true cost of the item. How well would Starbucks sell their mocha latte if the sign said, Have one each day on the way to work and it will cost you only $1,123 a year? The author of Kingdom-Focused Finances first helps the reader find himself in the morass of a deceptively affluent America. Then he walks the reader through steps of obedience to Jesus' Kingdom commands, clearly flagging the economic dangers that lurk to deceive. The many stories and analogies help to clear up much confusion about a widely misunderstood subject and make the book easy and enjoyable to read. The serious Christian will find himself well-informed and amply equipped to obey Jesus and experience the powerful freedom of Kingdom economics. --John D Martin This is one of the best nuts-and-bolts books on Christian finances that I have read in quite a while. Miller helps his readers get their priorities in order. --David Bercot This book directs the reader to make Biblically sound decisions about life and finances. The author points to principles that really matter now and for eternity. --Simon Schrock Gary Miller has a growing passion to help Christians use their personal finances to build God's Kingdom. He also works with the poor in Third World countries and started an experimental microloan program in Haiti. As part of this program, Gary wrote a teaching manual designed to provide both spiritual and financial teaching. After Christian Aid Ministries took over this microloan program (SALT Microfinance Solutions), they recognized that the Scriptural principles in Gary's manual were just as pertinent for our American Anabaptist communities, and asked him to write this book. Gary was raised in an Anabaptist community in California and lives with his wife Patty and family in the Pacific Northwest. He worked in construction all his life, but now focuses his time and energy on writing and helping find sustainable solutions for the poor.