“Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” — Matthew 6:21

That powerful truth from Jesus captures the heart of FaithFi’s mission and vision.

If money issues are ultimately heart issues, then we need more than financial tips—we need a heart change that helps us see God as our ultimate treasure. Today, Taylor Standridge joins us to explore the deeper purpose behind FaithFi and how you can partner in that mission.

Taylor Standridge is the Production Director of FaithFi: Faith & Finance and the co-author of Look At The Sparrows: A 21-Day Devotional on Financial Fear and Anxiety.

It’s pretty ironic that the stock market graph sometimes looks like a heart rate monitor. The point? Many people’s emotions—and even their sense of hope—are tied to their financial situation. When the market dips, so does their peace.

But Scripture offers a better way: “Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God” (Psalm 20:7).

If your peace mirrors the market, it may be a spiritual warning light. Scripture calls us to set our minds on things above, not on the volatility of our savings accounts.

At the core of FaithFi is a calling to help people glorify God through wise financial decisions. But our vision shapes how we do it: to see every Christian view God as their ultimate treasure.

In Jesus's words during the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 6:21 tells us, "Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” Christian finance is about more than avoiding debt or giving to good causes. Those are great goals, but Jesus is calling us to something deeper: to reexamine what we treasure in the first place.

It’s not about giving more, it’s about loving God more. That’s why even the Pharisees, who gave plenty, were still rebuked—because their hearts weren’t surrendered. When Christ becomes our greatest joy, giving becomes cheerful, not dutiful.

One of the biggest struggles we see on the show frequently is the tension between trusting God and trusting in financial security.

The culture says to get more and upgrade everything. But the gospel calls us to steward our resources for God’s Kingdom. Ultimately, money can never define our worth—it can only serve as a tool when our identity is rooted in Christ.

This book reminds us that wealth, possessions, and even success are fleeting. Apart from God, they’re meaningless—just vapor, or ‘hevel’ as Ecclesiastes puts it.

But when we view money as a gift from God, not the goal, its purpose becomes clear. Ecclesiastes invites us to stop chasing what won’t last and start investing in what will.

That’s why we’re excited about the release of our latest study, Wisdom Over Wealth: 12 Lessons from Ecclesiastes on Money, authored by John Cortines. Ecclesiastes speaks so much to our modern struggles with wealth, showing us both the futility of placing our hopes in riches and the true path to a life grounded in God’s wisdom. You’ll find that this study will challenge you to rethink your relationship with money and inspire deeper trust in God’s provision and sovereignty.

To get your copy, you can either pre-order it at FaithFi.com/Shop or request a copy to be sent to you when you make a gift of $35 or more to the ministry of FaithFi at FaithFi.com/Give. 

FaithFi isn’t just about biblical theory—it’s about real-life application. There are several ways

I was speaking for an Easter Sunrise Service in the Ozarks, and I saw something that seemed strangely out of place. In front of this church, there's a ten-foot section of a brick wall with a sign in front of it that says, "Berlin Wall." I was thousands of miles from Berlin, but here was a chunk of what used to be the most famous, and maybe the most infamous wall in the world. Many of us remember how the Berlin Wall represented for decades the Cold War division of our world into Communists on one side and free on the other. The Communists built it on the border between East Berlin and free West Berlin. In spite of that wall, many people still risked everything to scale it and escape to freedom. A few made it. Many died trying.

Then came that amazing day - a day few of us could have ever imagined - when the revolution taking place against Communist rule allowed Berliners to start tearing down that wall. All night long, they went after that wall with everything from sledge hammers to their bare hands. And then there were 100,000 Berliners, celebrating in the square, and they were chanting four incredible words over and over again, "The wall is gone! The wall is gone!"

I'm Ron Hutchcraft and I want to have A Word With You today about "The Wall In Your Heart."

For many of us, there's a wall that's still standing that is costing us the most important things in life. It's a wall between us and the God who made us. In fact, you probably didn't need me to tell you there's a wall. We know there's something between us and God. What we may not know is what that wall is keeping us from; like the meaning and purpose of your life. The only person who can show you why you're here is the One who put you here, and He's on the other side of the wall. The only love that can ultimately satisfy the loneliness in your heart is God's love. If we die with that wall still there, it's there forever. The Bible calls that hell.

The Bible describes the wall this way: "Your sins have separated you from your God" (Isaiah 59:2). The bricks in the wall between me and God are all the countless times that I've chosen to do things my way instead of His way - my sins. Every wrong thing I've ever done, every lie I've ever told, every person I've ever hurt, every mean thing I've ever said, every selfish thing I've ever done, every dirty thing I've ever thought or done, and everything and everyone I've ever let be more important than God in my life. Those are my sins. I'm cut off from God because of that sin-wall. And there's no way you or I can tear it down no matter how decent, how religious, or how sincere we are.

The only One who can do that is the very God we've rebelled against, and that's what He did the day His Son, Jesus, paid for our sin on the cross. For centuries, God's people, the Jews, had worshipped in a temple or tabernacle which had at its core, the Holy of Holies - God's place. Between them and that place was a curtain through which no man could ever go, except once a year when the High Priest entered to offer a sin sacrifice on behalf of the people. Our word for today from the Word of God, Matthew 27:51, describes the astonishing thing that happened the moment Jesus died: "At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom."

The curtain separating man from God could never have been removed by man from the bottom to the top. Only God could let us into His presence. So He split the curtain from top to bottom. There's the picture of what can happen to the wall between you and God this very day. God will tear it down forever if you'll bring the sins of your life to Jesus to be forgiven; if you'll tell Him you're putting your total trust in Him and what He did on the cross for you.

If that's what you want, I want to be all the help I can at this decisive moment in your life. Go to ou

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Do you know why the top universities in the world were founded? Or why someone like Harriet Tubman risked her life to rescue slaves? In this program, guest teacher John Dickerson makes that connection for us. John’s gonna unpack the common thread that links some of history’s most notable figures and institutions.

Chip Ingram’s passion is helping Christians really live like Christians. As a pastor, author, and teacher for more than three decades, Chip has helped believers around the world move from spiritual spectators to healthy, authentic disciples of Jesus by living out God’s truth in their lives and relationships in transformational ways.

John Dickerson is a prize-winning research journalist, a seminary-trained pastor, and a frequent commentator in national news outlets such as USA Today. Dickerson is the author of Hope of Nations, Jesus Skeptic and serves as the lead pastor of Connection Pointe Christian Church in the Indianapolis metro area.

Living on the Edge exists to help Christians live like Christians. Established in 1995 as the radio ministry of pastor and author Chip Ingram, God has since grown it into a global discipleship ministry. Living on the Edge provides Biblical teaching and discipleship resources that challenge and equip spiritually hungry Christians all over the world to become mature disci

There are some ways to tell if you’re really walking right with Jesus—John lays it out for each of us. But even if you aren’t, we’ll see how to handle that as well. Listen in and get your spiritual checkup now.

Notes:

Focus verse - 1 John 2
 
Read 1 John 2:1–6
 
#1 How’s Your Walk?
1 John 2:1–6
 
Sin is serious, but Jesus is our Advocate.
 
It’s not if you sin—it’s when.
The question is, “How will you respond?”
 
Read 1 John 2:3–4
 
Are you walking toward Jesus? Are you alongside Him?
Or are you name dropping as you walk the other way?
 
Propitiation: the means by which sins are forgiven.
 
Read 1 John 2:7–11
 
#2 How’s Your Heart?
1 John 2:7–11
 
Sometimes it’s easier to love a God you can’t see than it is to love the person next to you.
 
Anyone who claims to live in God’s light and hates a brother or sister is still in the dark.
1 John 2:9 (MSG)
 
Redemption means giving the love you never received, because God gave it to you first. 
 
The compassion Christ showed you is the same compassion you’re called to show them.
 
 
If your heart is constantly cold toward others, if your instinct is to isolate, criticize, or cut people off, or if you cling to your grudge like an emotional support animal, maybe it's not them—it's you. 
 
Read 1 John 2:12–17
 
#3 What’s Got Your Heart?
1 John 2:12–17
 
Your spiritual health is not a matter of perfection, but direction.
 
Jesus isn’t saying that having wealth is the problem.
He’s saying being owned by it is. 
 
There’s nothing wrong with having possessions, as long as your possessions do not possess you.
 
And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.
1 John 2:17 (NKJV)
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