Money Made Faithful With John Putnam

By John Putnam

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July 01, 2025191 - A ‘Christmas in July’ 3-Step Reset - 'Refreshed Replay'
As summer shines bright, it’s a perfect time to pause, reflect, and realign. Midyear often lands us in the messy middle—but what if we brought a little Christmas joy to the Summer season?
In this refreshed replay, we’re unwrapping a “Christmas in July” perspective to help you revisit your financial goals with renewed clarity and purpose.
Whether the year has flown by or felt heavy with unexpected turns, this conversation offers a thoughtful, Christ-centered reset to help you finish strong!
In this episode, John discusses:
Why midyear is a powerful checkpoint for financial reflection
The importance of revising plans in light of real life
How to keep your goals aligned with faith and purpose
Three practical steps to reflect, revise, and refocus
Key Takeaways:
Taking time to reflect midyear gives you space to acknowledge progress, recognize what still needs attention, and reconnect with the heart behind your goals.
Revising your financial plans allows you to adapt to life’s inevitable changes while staying grounded in a purpose that reflects your current season and needs.
Realigning your goals with your faith and God's greater story helps ensure your financial journey is not just productive, but also deeply meaningful and spiritually aligned.
Simplifying and refocusing your financial priorities can clear the clutter, ease the pressure, and help you move forward with clarity, confidence, and peace.
“We want to leave room for God to move. We want to plan. God asks us to plan, but not so much that we box him out.”

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June 24, 2025190 - 3 Tips to Beat the Summer Money Heat - 'Refreshed Replay'
Summer is in full swing—a time filled with sunshine, shifting schedules, and all sorts of new opportunities. But as routines relax and plans pile up, it’s easy for our financial focus to fade without us even realizing it.
In this refreshed replay, we’re returning to a timely and practical conversation that really resonated with the Money Made Faithful community. We’re sharing three scripture-anchored tips to help you stay on track with your finances during the summer months so you can enjoy the season while still honoring your financial goals and your faith.
In this episode, John discusses:
Three simple, biblical strategies to help you navigate summer money choices with purpose
Why summer often challenges even the best financial plans—and how to stay grounded
How aligning your money choices with biblical wisdom brings peace, clarity, and impact
Key Takeaways:
Recognize how easily summer’s busyness and unpredictability can pull you off track. Building awareness—of your spending habits, current financial standing, and upcoming expenses—is the first step toward staying focused and faithful.
Set clear, meaningful financial goals that reflect both your immediate needs and your long-term vision. By reviewing and adjusting your budget consistently, you can stay on mission—even when summer throws you a curveball.
Make every financial decision count by choosing intentionally and resisting the impulse to spend without thought. Budgeting with purpose reflects your values, strengthens your faith journey, and allows you to be a good steward of what God has entrusted to you.
Let scripture shape your summer decisions. When your financial plans grow from biblical truth, you’ll find yourself navigating this summer season with a sense of alignment, purpose, and gratitude—putting first things first and honoring God along the way.
“Every financial decision, even in the sun and fun of summer, is an opportunity to honor God and steward the blessings that He has given you.”

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June 17, 2025189- 5 Tech Tips for Your Best Vacation Ever - 'Refreshed Replay'
We’re wrapping up our series on how to have your best vacation ever. We’ve already covered the power of setting and sharing expectations, along with eight intentional steps to make your time away more meaningful. But what happens when tech distractions sneak in and start to steal those special moments?
In this episode, we’re revisiting five practical tech tips to help you stay focused on what really matters during your vacation. A few thoughtful boundaries can go a long way toward keeping your attention—and your heart—right where it belongs.
In this episode, John discusses:
Setting clear boundaries for technology use
Using digital tools without letting them take over
Modeling intentional tech habits for others
Capturing memories creatively without relying on phones
Getting active to help minimize screen time
Key Takeaways:
Designate specific times and areas where phones and devices are off-limits—like meals, game time, or evenings. These tech-free zones help protect face-to-face connection and make space for deeper conversations.
Schedule intentional moments for using phones—whether it’s snapping photos, checking in with friends, or finding local spots to explore—so tech use stays purposeful, not constant.
Lead by example when it comes to phone habits. Others, especially kids, will often mirror what they see, so your own behavior can gently shape the group’s overall tech use.
Bring along a digital or disposable camera to encourage creativity without defaulting to your phone. It adds fun to memory-making and invites everyone to see the trip from a different perspective.
Plan active group moments that naturally draw attention away from screens—like a hike, a game, or a walk on the beach. Physical activity often creates space for presence, laughter, and lasting memories.
“Stay prayerful, flexible, graceful, and kind. Even with preparations and expectations set and shared, and tech tips in place, and doing your best, a plan is still only a plan.”
Resources Mentioned:
How Teens and Parents Approach Screen Time by Pew Research Center: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2024/03/11/how-teens-and-parents-approach-screen-time/
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June 10, 2025188 - You're 8 Steps Away from your Best Vacation Ever - Refreshed Replay
With summer right around the corner, many of us are longing for a true break—but how do we make sure our vacation leaves us rested, and not just overly busy in a different location?
In this refreshed replay of a listener favorite, we revisit eight practical and faith-rooted steps to help you plan a vacation that restores your soul, strengthens your relationships, and honors your calling.
Inspired by Mark 6, where Jesus invites His disciples to “come away… and rest,” this conversation blends spiritual wisdom and real-world strategies to help you prepare well and return refreshed.
If you're already planning on getting away this summer, this is the episode you will want to hear before you go.
In this episode, John discusses:
How to plan for true rest before, during, and after your vacation
The importance of prayer, preparation, and support systems
Creative ways to build margin into your time away
Budgeting and financial strategies that align with faithful stewardship
Key Takeaways:
Start your vacation with prayer—lift up your work, your family, and your time away, inviting God to go before you and be present in every moment.
Build support and set boundaries at work—from assigning a vacation buddy to crafting a thoughtful out-of-office reply, prepare to unplug with confidence.
Plan both structure and spontaneity—leave room for rest, play, delays, and the unexpected ways God may show up in unplanned moments.
Stay financially grounded—determine your budget in advance and vacation at the speed of cash to enjoy peace both during your trip and after you return home.
“Your work can wait. Your rest cannot. Jesus is waiting. Your family and friends are too. And may this year be the year of your best vacation ever.”
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June 03, 2025187 - Setting Expectations for Your Best Vacation Ever - 'Refreshed Replay'
Welcome to the first episode in a special season of 'refreshed replays'—a curated collection of listener favorites we’re revisiting with fresh perspective as we journey toward episode 200.
These episodes are packed with timeless wisdom, and we’re pausing to reflect on them with new eyes, fresh hearts, and deeper intention.
Today, we're diving into a highly practical and transformative conversation: setting expectations for your next vacation. Whether you're traveling solo, with family, or friends, we'll explore five key areas that can turn your time away into a truly restful and spiritually renewing experience.
Join me as we step into this season of reflection and rediscovery—one faithful conversation at a time.
In this episode, John discusses:
Why unmet expectations can derail even the most well-planned vacations
How clear communication can transform family and group trips
The spiritual and emotional benefits of vacationing with intention
How physical, financial, and relational awareness shapes a fulfilling break
Key Takeaways:
Identifying what you and others want from your vacation—like quiet, adventure, or space to recharge—helps you communicate clearly and protect your time for true rest.
Having honest conversations ahead of time about how you’ll spend time together or apart allows everyone to feel considered and reduces relational tension during the trip.
Discussing financial boundaries in advance, including budgets and expectations for shared costs, prevents stress and creates space for generosity and enjoyment.
Intentionally planning spiritual moments—like prayer, reflection, or faith-filled conversations—invites God into your time away and brings deeper purpose to your rest.
Choosing activities that match your energy, abilities, and capacity allows you to enjoy memorable experiences without returning home more exhausted than when you left.
“Your time and rest with family and friends, I just want to remind you, this is important to God. And I believe it's His sincere desire for you and for me to take a break after the hard work.”

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May 27, 2025186 - A Prayerful Pause
After 185 episodes, we believe it’s time to reset with intention and seek God’s direction for our next season.
We’re taking a 'prayerful pause'—some time to reflect, listen, and reimagine how we can serve you even better.
This isn’t about stepping back; it’s about leaning in, listening deeply, and preparing for even greater impact.
We’re sharing what’s coming, how you can stay engaged, and how we believe this journey is just getting started.
Key Takeaways:
We're taking a 90-day pause from new podcast episodes.
Please stay engaged with us with “refreshed replays” to highlight top past episodes with added insight and updated commentary.
New resources and workshops are being considered and developed to help you deepen your stewardship journey.
Keep in touch and let us know of any suggestions, topic ideas, and prayer requests to shape future content.
We are returning on September 2nd with Episode 200, marking a renewed vision, forward movement, and we're anticipating a few surprises, too!
"I’m embracing this pause not as downtime, but as preparation time. To hear from God. To ask better questions. To get clearer on the mission. To envision what’s next."

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May 20, 2025185 - 3 Keys to Stewarding What's Not Yours
What if the way you’ve been thinking about money is completely upside down?
In this episode, we’re challenging one of the most deeply held beliefs in our culture: ownership. Through scripture, personal reflection, and powerful truth, we’ll explore what it really means to steward something that doesn’t belong to you—and why embracing that reality could change everything about your financial journey.
In this episode, John discusses:
Shifting your mindset from ownership to entrusted stewardship
How core beliefs about money shape your goals and decisions
The connection between spiritual obedience and financial behavior
Using everyday financial choices to honor and reflect Christ
Key Takeaways:
When you begin to see money not as something you own but as something entrusted to you by God, your entire approach to money becomes more intentional and aligned with His story.
Believing that all resources belong to God, invites you to hold your finances with open hands, asking not “What do I want?” but “What does God want, through me?”
Aligning your financial actions with God's purpose allows your daily decisions—big or small—to serve as visible testimonies of your faith and spiritual maturity.
True financial peace isn’t found in reaching a number or goal, but in surrendering control and faithfully asking, “Lord, what would You have me do with Your money?”
“Let's stop asking, "What can I do with my money?" and let's start asking, "Lord, what would You have me do with Yours?" Guys, that is the shift that leads to freedom. That is the heart of stewardship—and stewarding what's not yours.”
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May 13, 2025184 - Finding Calm in the Storm - Part 2 - When Jesus Speaks
We’re finishing the series on finding calm in the middle of our financial storms—this time focusing on the incredible power and results when Jesus speaks.
In Mark 4, His words don’t just still the wind and waves around the disciples—He challenges the disciples and exposes another storm within. In this episode, we explore how that same voice speaks boldly and divinely into our financial fears today.
With biblical insight and practical application, we’ll unpack how to find real peace, take faithful action, and stay anchored when everything around us feels uncertain.
In this episode, John discusses:
How Jesus models divine authority in the midst of chaos
The difference between external and internal turbulence
Responding to financial stress with faithful belief
Building a steady money mindset using biblical truth
Key Takeaways:
Jesus’ command to the storm in Mark 4 shows that His authority brings instant calm to the external chaos, reminding us that we can rely on His power in our financial storms, too.
True peace isn’t about having perfect conditions or a fully funded financial plan—it’s about intentionally inviting the presence of Jesus into our decisions.
Believing in God’s promises, His purpose, and His provision allows us to face external and intermnal pressure with confidence and clarity.
“Peace isn't just a feeling. Peace is a person, and that person is Jesus.”
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May 06, 2025183 - Finding Calm in the Storm - Part 1: When the Wind Picks Up
In this episode, we step into the tension of financial storms and reflect on how fear quietly shapes our decisions in times of uncertainty.
We revisit a real storm and story on the Sea of Galilee to draw timeless truths about trust, stewardship, and peace. As we consider unhealthy and healthy fear, we’re reminded that calm doesn’t depend on the storm ending—it depends on knowing who's already in the boat with us.
This conversation lays the groundwork for what’s still to come as we continue navigating faith and finances under pressure.
In this episode, John discusses:
How fear influences our financial decisions during uncertain times
What a biblical storm and story can teach us about our current reality
Distinguishing between types of fear in the face of financial pressure
Inviting spiritual perspective into money choices
Key Takeaways:
When we allow unhealthy fear to take over, it hijacks our ability to make wise decisions and pushes us toward reactive, emotionally driven financial choices that often don’t serve us well.
Healthy fear, in contrast, can sharpen our vision and help us stay grounded, encouraging intentionality, faithful stewardship, and renewed focus on what truly matters.
Even when our circumstances feel overwhelming and the waves are crashing, we can experience calm by remembering that Jesus hasn’t left—we just need to let Him in.
His kind of peace doesn't require perfect conditions; it requires awareness of His presence and the courage to trust His guidance even when our financial future looks uncertain.
“I know the storm can feel difficult. I know it can feel tumultuous, but you don't need the storm to stop for Jesus to bring peace to you. You just need to know where He is—and He's in your boat.”

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April 29, 2025182 - Financial Forensics - 5 Steps of a Money Choice - Encore Edition
Small choices shape big destinies—and that’s just as true with your money as it is with your faith. In this encore episode, we’re revisiting a powerful truth: every financial decision you make is moving you either closer to God and His purpose or further away.
Using the Financial Forensics model, we’ll unpack the five essential steps behind every money choice and show how you can navigate decisions with greater wisdom, peace, and purpose.
Let’s lean into faithful stewardship one small step at a time—and watch those steps lead to lasting impact.
In this episode, John discusses:
How everyday financial choices impact long-term outcomes
The spiritual significance behind small decisions
Understanding the internal process of decision-making
Practical steps to align financial choices with faithful stewardship
Key Takeaways:
Every financial decision begins with a source—whether seen or unseen—and discerning the true motives behind it helps you respond with greater wisdom and faithfulness.
What you allow through your senses shapes your mind and heart, making it crucial to guard what you see, hear, and take in when making financial choices.
Training your mind to dwell on truth and excellence prepares you to think clearly and resist worldly patterns that can derail wise stewardship.
Since your deepest beliefs and desires live in your heart, nurturing a heart aligned with God’s truth is essential for making faithful financial decisions.
By submitting each decision to prayer and seeking God’s direction, you invite His wisdom into your finances and anchor your choices in His purpose for your life.
“I truly believe that the little financial choices we make every day have the ability to bring us closer to God or closer to the world. That's why it's so critical that we choose wisely.”

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