Best Books of 2024

Steven Manuel continues the series on Delighting in Small Beginnings by interviewing a man who started small (with zero dollars to his name) and has built an El Paso mainstay business. Never think you have to have huge financial capital and tons of experience to start a business. You have to have faith (which Fabian has in abundance) and, as you’ll hear him say over and over… WORK HARD!

2 Helmi 202241min

Steven Manuel and Mark Parrett discuss the value in God’s sight of small beginnings (10:30). We all tend to cheer the ARRIVAL of a dream, the FRUITION of years of faithfulness… but what about the seeds? We need to see that every act of faithfulness is a foundation stone onto which more can be built- in both the spiritual AND financial (40:30) realms. They also spat about whether you can put mozzarella cheese on a taco (3:00). Products and resources mentioned in this episode: Drafting Your Family Vision In 3 Hours Abraham’s Wallet channel on Volley

26 Tammi 20221h 10min

Mark Parrett and Steven Manuel discuss whether or not there’s any spiritual or financial value in having a large family (spoiler: there is) (7:30-12:15, 19:30). This important shout out to the large family, and its leaders, is interrupted by a big advertisement for our new way of talking to AW listeners: the Volley app (12:15-19:30). This episode is with a conversation with Large Family Leader Michael Beausejour (1:16:15). Mentioned in today’s episode are the following books and bagel shops: Marx Hot Bagels Volley app (Here’s our channel. Come join us. Come on.) The Wingfeather Saga, Peterson

19 Tammi 20221h 22min

Steven Manuel and Mark Douglass (his old friend from Texas) talk about the concept of ‘dominionism’ that’s moving around some circles and inspires a new group of books (listed below). This is NOT a thorough dissection of the subject; Mark is a novice at the topic and Steven is just trying to get his head around it. They discuss whether God wants his sons “taking over”, where godly ambition and selfish ambition diverge, and the “pope of Bastrop, Texas,” Bob Long. Mark Douglass’ community, training center, and equipping confab is The Viceroy Project. Get him out into your neck of the woods to train your families to be stronger for the Kingdom. Seriously. Do it. Today’s episode mentions the following books and products: [“Dominion” books: It’s Good to Be A Man, Michael Foster and Dominic Bnonn Tennant Gathmu Saith It, Douglas Wilson In the House of Tom Bombadil, C.R. Wiley The Household and the War for the Cosmos, C.R. Wiley] The Benedict Option, Rod Dreher The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien TheViceroyProject.com

12 Tammi 20221h 13min

Mark Parrett and Steven Manuel continue their series on training children financially (20:30). In PART THREE of this series, they review an overall plan of 11 teaching opportunities for fostering financial literacy among your progeny. They cannot help themselves, though, from discussing Christmas lights for about 20 minutes, wasting precious minutes of your day.  Mentioned in today’s episode are the following products: Pay Day, by Hasbro Cashflow [board game] by Rich Dad Greenlight.com Famzoo.com charitynavigator.org Busy Kid app Investopedia App

5 Tammi 20221h 9min

Mark Parrett and Steven Manuel continue their series on training children financially. In PART TWO of this series, they discuss the HOW of financial training (9:30). Before they get into the actual, useful information, they talk about shower processes, and Orator’s Corner makes an appearance (5:45).  Mentioned in today’s episode are the following books and products: Smart Kids, Smart Money, by Dave Ramsey and Rachel Cruze Raising Financially Fit Kids, by Joline Godfrey The Millionaire Next Door, by Thomas J. Stanley The Richest Man in Babylon, by George Samuel Clason Financial Peace Jr., by Dave Ramsey

29 Joulu 202153min

Mark Parrett and Steven Manuel begin a series on training children financially. In PART ONE of this series, they discuss the necessity of training one’s children (17:30). The church at large doesn’t talk about this issue, but leaving a godly inheritance necessitates this kind of training. They also get into whether Christianity, as known in the culture, is going to make it or not (1:00), and the cultural issues surrounding Dave Chappelle (9:00).

22 Joulu 202153min

Mark Parrett reprises his “best books I read this year” gimmick with AW friend Jeff Davenport. They discuss books old and new, fiction and nonfiction, funny and profane- basically, whatever they ingested in the past year. It’s a review of interesting books, and and advertisement for reading in general. it’s 2021’s Book List!

15 Joulu 20211h 16min