00:00 Opening: The grocery CEO in the trailer park
01:09 FDE Podcast Intro
01:21 God’s mega-trends: Seasons of stewardship
02:44 Money as ministry, not a program or product
03:57 Upstream vs. downstream: What stewardship really means
07:06 Ron Blue the serial entrepreneur: A flyover
07:45 Giftedness discovered: Taking the complex and making it simple
08:18 Starting the accounting firm: Serving Main Street
10:04 Hiring the person who finished first on the CPA exam
11:11 Building a platform for other people’s ministry
12:04 What entrepreneurship actually takes: 10 years
13:07 When no one equated the Bible with money
14:38 Enough money in evangelical hands to fund the Great Commission
15:10 The three most important questions: Who owns it? How much is enough?
16:07 The finish line is contentment, not a number
17:21 John Steinbeck’s prophetic 1959 letter on American abundance
18:34 NBA salaries then vs. NFL today: A culture of more
19:16 The devastating realization that a billion dollars doesn’t satisfy
20:18 Contentment as a choice, not a calculation
21:50 The ATM church vs. the platform business
22:49 Surrender doesn’t mean sell: Stay in the fight
23:14 The heart surgeon in the million-dollar home
24:26 Reversing the question: What does God think?
25:50 The grocery CEO and the trailer park
27:11 The church has more resources than any generation in history
28:06 Satan’s strategy: Push you over the edge with abundance
29:08 Money, success, significance, security—why none of them deliver
30:37 Hard vs. impossible: Serving God and mammon
30:53 Succession planning: The firm is more important than the founder
31:19 Building in equity vesting from day one
32:20 Called into ministry with only 35% vested
33:22 Family succession and treating children uniquely
35:09 Do your giving while you’re living
36:04 Does it bother you that you’re not participating in the value?
37:15 NCF gave away $3.5 billion; Blue Trust clients gave $500 million
38:37 The boy with the loaves and fishes
38:56 Blue Trust’s counter-cultural growth: 17% compounded in 4 years
40:48 God’s math on a spreadsheet
41:31 The rise of faith-driven investing
43:26 From stewardship to a full Kingdom ecosystem
44:32 Flying in the face of worldly values
44:50 Where to start: Ask “Who owns it?”
46:12 Holding it with an open hand
47:21 God makes the waves—what a gift to ride them together
47:33 Closing encouragement from Justin
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