What should you do with your money? Should you save? Invest? Give it away? These questions have...
by Tom Nelson Can we be faithful without being fruitful? It is a crucial question for each one of us to ponder...
by Robert Netzly Intel Corporation [ticker: INTC] is the largest semiconductor chip manufacturer in the United States (second largest in the world...
by Tom Blaisdell Much of the capital available to Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) around the world, especially in the U.S., is...
What a blessing to be in this room. A room of Christ-followers who share a common faith in God as sovereign over...
Every Investment has an Impact, what's yours? Faith Driven Investor is a movement of fund managers, investors and leaders who believe that...
I find Jesus’ investment advice hard to take. But then again, I don’t have a good investment track record. In October of...
Ken Duncan is one of the world’s most important landscape photographers. He and his wife, Pam, founded what today includes three galleries and a profitable Web site that sell Ken’s amazing photography, as...
Effectively equipping church members for daily life and work requires significant investments of money and staff time. This may mean reallocating resources...
Finance is that human activity whereby we allocate or exchange resources with respect to time. For the most part this article concerns external exchange—that is, borrowing, lending and investing—rather than allocation of resources...
Humanity does not know everything, and individually each of us knows only a tiny fraction of what can be known. God created each of us with our own unique mind which takes in...
Intermediaries are institutions that “remanufacture” lenders’ resources into a form that is useful to borrowers. A simple example is when a bank intermediates between several depositors and one business loan borrower. Intermediaries include...
If finance is a means of care and love, doing finance through intermediaries raises a question. Can we love someone we do...
The question of prices raised two questions about finance as a form of love. First, can love be expressed in a market...
Up to this point we have considered finance as God originally intended. But, we know that the Fall of humanity has marred every aspect of creation. Until Christ’s redemption of the world is...
A hedge fund is a mutual fund that invests in specialized financial instruments not usually available to individual savers. Hedge funds are often lightly regulated, highly-leveraged, and can invest in a wider variety...
Can biblical principles help us determine how much to borrow or when to borrow? Several of the biblical foundations of finance can help. First, we inhabit God’s time-bound world with social cycles and...
Those who provide resources—lenders and savers—have a responsibility to invest their resources for the common, and not only for their own, gain. This perspective is sometimes called “socially responsible investing.” We will explore...
Some national leaders attain provision or wealth through unjust means such as exploitation, force, corruption, theft and others. Brutal dictators and regimes...
Not all accumulation of wealth is a result of injustice. However, even when wealth is gained through legitimate means, it still has...
The first humans were directed by God to take care of the Garden and all creatures and plants within it. This is...
While giving is a fundamental way of using wealth to aid those caught in poverty, wise investment of wealth can also be very effective in helping the poor. There are many examples of...
We can seek guidance about provision from God and expect that doing so will help us meet our needs, the needs of...
Is it possible for our faith to influence how we invest? And if so, what would that look like? There’s a movement...
All kinds of investors—from the rich young ruler to the widow and her mite—have the ability to affect change. How and where...
How do we take the principles of a Faith Driven Investor and put them into practice? Well, there are three habits, three...
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