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Here's a fun, free, print-at-home game to make your Super Bowl gathering a blast! Download the PDF for free at https://abrahamswallet.com/2024/02/07/a-super-bowl-game-taylors-version/

8 Feb 20243min

Poverty is invisible; it exists in your work ethic, your personal discipline, your aversion to pain, and even your ability to make a plan. Steven and Mark kick around the Biblical idea of poverty, and give tips on how to wrestle it into submission, so that you can lead your family into true, deep, lasting prosperity. Also, Mark is excited that Texas now has razor wire! Abraham's Wallet exists to inspire and equip Biblical family leaders. Please partner with us in inspiring and equipping multi-gen families at https://abrahamswallet.com/donate/ Resources Mentioned in This Episode: A Framework for Understanding Poverty, Payne Scarcity Brain, Easter About Abraham's Wallet: AW website: https://abrahamswallet.com/2017/11/27/what-is-abrahams-wallet/ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/abrahams-wallet/id1462593706 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6xbcf3IhayaoKB4sTegPRw?si=4M-m7mwUR0GigEkgrf3aJA YouTube full episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@abrahamswallet Twitter: https://twitter.com/abrahamswallet Facebook: https://facebook.com/abrahamswallet Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/abrahamswallet This Week's Episode Rundown: 0:00 - News review: Texas tough! 5:45 - Intro 14:00 - You might have poverty if… 30:45 - What to DO about it

7 Feb 202454min

There is a family (okay, there are many families) who have decided that, one month a year, they'll spend as little as possible, wear not-spanking-new clothes, forego lattes, and eat everything they already have! The LoDo exercise we do here at Abe's Wallet every February helps train us in spending, our ability to restrain ourselves... and helps train our money to not be our master! Give this experiment a listen and maybe try it yourself! Abraham's Wallet exists to inspire and equip Biblical family leaders. Please partner with us in inspiring and equipping multi-gen families at https://abrahamswallet.com/donate/ Resources Mentioned in This Episode: LoDo Article at AW: https://abrahamswallet.com/2019/02/12/lodo-the-month-of-little-things/ LoDo Tactics (2023): https://abrahamswallet.com/podcast/dough-lodofeb-inflation-edition/ About Abraham's Wallet: AW website: https://abrahamswallet.com/2017/11/27/what-is-abrahams-wallet/ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/abrahams-wallet/id1462593706 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6xbcf3IhayaoKB4sTegPRw?si=4M-m7mwUR0GigEkgrf3aJA YouTube full episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@abrahamswallet Twitter: https://twitter.com/abrahamswallet Facebook: https://facebook.com/abrahamswallet Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/abrahamswallet This Week's Episode Rundown: 0:00 - Hello and Steven Wears a Tie! 4:30 - Introducing LoDoFeb 16:30 - Biblical TRAINING via LoDo 25:15 - training re SPENDING 31:25 - ways that LoDo trains 43:20 - banter about being audited

31 Jan 202446min

Is “toxic masculinity” real? It is if you read The Mosquito Coast… and learn the lesson from a book like “Moonwalker”…! Jeff Davenport and Mark Parrett continue their annual Best Books of… series with 2023’s crop of old and new reads that may inspire you to pick up something intellectually and creatively stimulating! Give these lunkheads a listen! Abraham's Wallet exists to inspire and equip Biblical family leaders. Please partner with us in inspiring and equipping multi-gen families at https://abrahamswallet.com/donate/ About Abraham's Wallet: AW website: https://abrahamswallet.com/2017/11/27/what-is-abrahams-wallet/ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/abrahams-wallet/id1462593706 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6xbcf3IhayaoKB4sTegPRw?si=4M-m7mwUR0GigEkgrf3aJA YouTube full episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@abrahamswallet Twitter: https://twitter.com/abrahamswallet Facebook: https://facebook.com/abrahamswallet Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/abrahamswallet This Week's Episode Rundown: 0:00 - Hello and Books About Men  7:00 - We Die Alone 11:10 - Big Rock Candy Mountain 13:30 - Moonwalker 19:20 - Matterhorn 22:45 - Serling, TV’s Last Angry Man 27:00 - The Bonfire of the Vanities 34:00 - The Passenger 37:00 - The Death of Ivan Ilych 38:50 - Masculine Christianity 40:30 - The Mosquito Coast 43:30 - The Remains of the Day 47:00 - Never Let Me Go 48:10 - Something Wonderful 51:00 - What’s coming for 2024?

24 Jan 202455min

Who do you want to become? Setting ambitions isn't just for 8th graders; we all have to decide which way we're headed, then plot a course for our destination of choice. In this episode, Steven and Mark lay out a case for AMBITIONS: it's good to have them, but they can be dangerous if vanity is present. The fellas lead off this episode with a review of 2023's AW episodes. Abraham's Wallet exists to inspire and equip Biblical family leaders. Please partner with us in inspiring and equipping multi-gen families at https://abrahamswallet.com/donate/ About Abraham's Wallet: AW website: https://abrahamswallet.com/2017/11/27/what-is-abrahams-wallet/ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/abrahams-wallet/id1462593706 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6xbcf3IhayaoKB4sTegPRw?si=4M-m7mwUR0GigEkgrf3aJA YouTube full episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@abrahamswallet Twitter: https://twitter.com/abrahamswallet Facebook: https://facebook.com/abrahamswallet Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/abrahamswallet This Week's Episode Rundown: 0:00 Introductory thoughts 8:20 Review of 2023 Episodes- highs and lows 18:45 Ambitions

17 Jan 20241h 3min

What can the Chronicles of Narnia, a decades-old children’s fiction teach us about having a godly home?  Mark Parrett talks with Aaron Bair, a teacher and author of A Joyful Outpost, which is an exploration of the Narnia stories created by C.S. Lewis. Aaron believes that a Biblical home of order, security, celebration, bravery, and hospitality are all wonderfully modeled for us by… Mr. and Mrs. Beaver!?? Abraham's Wallet exists to inspire and equip Biblical family leaders. Please partner with us in inspiring and equipping multi-gen families at https://abrahamswallet.com/donate/ Resources mentioned in this episode: About Abraham's Wallet: AW website: https://abrahamswallet.com/2017/11/27/what-is-abrahams-wallet/ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/abrahams-wallet/id1462593706 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6xbcf3IhayaoKB4sTegPRw?si=4M-m7mwUR0GigEkgrf3aJA YouTube full episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@abrahamswallet Twitter: https://twitter.com/abrahamswallet Facebook: https://facebook.com/abrahamswallet Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/abrahamswallet

10 Jan 202439min

Steven Manuel talks us through Psalm 37 as a blessing for the year of craziness before us. Are you ready to walk into massive societal turmoil and keep your head on straight? Psalm 37 will show you the way! Abraham's Wallet exists to inspire and equip Biblical family leaders. Please partner with us in inspiring and equipping multi-gen families at https://abrahamswallet.com/donate/ Resources mentioned in this episode: Wealth is Inevitable series: https://abrahamswallet.com/2018/03/14/wealth-is-inevitable-part-1/ About Abraham's Wallet: AW website: https://abrahamswallet.com/2017/11/27/what-is-abrahams-wallet/ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/abrahams-wallet/id1462593706 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6xbcf3IhayaoKB4sTegPRw?si=4M-m7mwUR0GigEkgrf3aJA YouTube full episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@abrahamswallet Twitter: https://twitter.com/abrahamswallet Facebook: https://facebook.com/abrahamswallet Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/abrahamswallet This Week's Episode Rundown: 0:00 Introductory thoughts 7:30 Psalm 37

3 Jan 202420min

If God could set up a society, what would it look like? Unrestrained capitalism? Pure free markets? Or would there be freedom... with LIMITS? Let's take a look at Leviticus 25 and find out God's principles about making (and keping?) money. About Abraham's Wallet: AW website: https://abrahamswallet.com/2017/11/27/what-is-abrahams-wallet/ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/abrahams-wallet/id1462593706 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6xbcf3IhayaoKB4sTegPRw?si=4M-m7mwUR0GigEkgrf3aJA YouTube full episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@abrahamswallet Twitter: https://twitter.com/abrahamswallet Facebook: https://facebook.com/abrahamswallet Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/abrahamswallet This Week's Episode Rundown: 0:00 Intros  7:20 Leviticus 25 14:00 Observations about the text 30:30 Applications for us 1:03:10 Closing prayer

27 Dec 20231h 7min