Brad Hewitt - Your New Money Mindset: Create a Healthy Relationship with Money

Your New Money Mindset lays out a countercultural, proven, and practical approach to managing your relationship with money. Encouraging rather than preachy, Hewitt and Moline make a compelling, biblically grounded case that being wise and generous with your money and time will lead to greater joy, less worry, and a world more the way God intended, and the authors provide actionable steps to get there.

JONATHAN T. M. RECKFORD, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL

Generous giving is something that seems out of reach for the vast majority, and generosity with contentment is only for the very rich, not average, working-class Joes like the rest of us. Enter authors Brad Hewitt and Jim Moline. These gentlemen turn our thinking about contentment, giving, and financial stability on end and ask us to make a radical change, one that begins not with the budget, but with the heart. Whether youre a young family just starting out, or middle aged and trying to navigate college tuition or fast-approaching retirement, they will challenge you to drastically change your attitudes and ideas regarding your finances and giving. They will help you break the persistent desire for more in our consumer-driven society and ask you to reach for something better, something most of us cant see on the financial horizon. That elusive something is peace the peace that comes with contentment and the decision that we have enough, enough for ourselves and enough to share.

SHERRY SURRATT, PRESIDENT & CEO OF MOPS, INTERNATIONAL; AUTHOR OF BRAVE MOM, BEAUTIFUL MESS AND JUST LEAD

In a culture in which financial plans and money tips abound, Your New Money Mindset takes us deeper: to the heart. Hewitt and Moline invite families into a soul-healthy approach toward finances, casting a vision extending well beyond bills and 401Ks into the gospel calling of generosity. This fresh perspective beckons us past how to into the life-shifting call: Follow me.

KELLI B. TRUJILLO, EDITOR OF TODAYS CHRISTIAN WOMAN

Imagine sitting down with a Bible and all your finances. Next to you sit two fellow Christians a psychologist and a financial leader. With warmth, wisdom, and wit, they talk to you about your faith and your money. That important conversation is Your New Money Mindset.

LEITH ANDERSON, PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS

Brad and Jim demonstrate that while good financial strategies are important, they fail to address the root issue that keeps us in constant angst our money mindset. How do we achieve a mindset that believes we have more than enough regardless of income and puts us in a position to share it joyfully with others? The authors wisely lead us down the path toward this blessed position. Well written, challenging, and powerful!

PATRICK JOHNSON, CHIEF ARCHITECT OF GENEROUSCHURCH

Brad Hewitt and Jim Moline authentically share their own journey to a healthy relationship with money and challenge us to take the same journey. In Your New Money Mindset they connect you with a free online assessment that will help you discover your own money mindset so you can make the necessary adjustments to live the life God dreams for you to live.

DAVE FERGUSON, LEAD PASTOR OF COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN CHURCH, VISIONARY LEADER OF NEWTHING, COAUTHOR OF FINDING YOUR WAY BACK TO GOD

Your New Money Mindset is a book that belongs on the shelf of every family who desires to walk in financial freedom. Brad Hewitt and Jim Moline are perfect collaborators, and they have created a resource that will help you have the mind of Christ in the way you view money. The journey you travel with the authors will help you realize your feelings and attitudes about money and how to break free from the debilitating effect of consumerism. Finally, I believe that the transformation that can occur when you experience this New Money Mindset is one that will change the world.

ELLIE KAY, AUTHOR OF LEAN BODY, FAT WALLET

Brad Hewitt and Jim Moline do an excellent job of providing eye-opening and practical ways to put your faith into action by nurturing a spirit of generosity, regardless of how much money you may or may not have. I recommend Your New Money Mindset as a resource to individuals and congregations, for it contains many nuggets of truth that help you explore your relationship to money and to an incredibly generous God.

M. SARAH BRECKENRIDGE, EXECUTIVE PASTOR OF ST. ANDREWS LUTHERAN CHURCH, MAHTOMEDI, MN

In Your New Money Mindset, Hewitt and Moline persuasively convince us that there is no such thing as financial security. In this compelling book full of both research and personal narratives, they offer an invitation to go beyond money management to a deeper understanding of the ways our relationship with money has distorted our views of success and our image of the good life. Mere strategies of self-discipline and delayed gratification are not enough to free us from the bondage of consumerism and the myth we buy into that larger bank accounts will provide the options and affirmation of significance that we are longing for. Investing in a rich relationship with God, living with generosity of time and resources, and practicing the countercultural virtue of contentment are some of the signposts that mark the way on this journey to genuine financial freedom and wisdom.

LAURA ROBINSON HARBERT, PHD, DEAN OF THE CHAPEL AND SPIRITUAL FORMATION, FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY

Fixing our money problems starts with changing our hearts, and in a world filled with so much noise about finances, Brad and Jim show us how to create real and lasting change. A thought-provoking read, no matter where you are in your financial journey.

RUTH SOUKUP, NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LIVING WELL, SPENDING LESS

Its one thing to say consumerism is like a cancer in our American culture. It certainly is, but many say that. Its another thing to offer a clear, compelling cure for that cancer. Thats what Brad and Jim do in Your New Money Mindset. The book is filled with assessment tools, stories, Scripture, and personal candor. I want my children and my congregation to read this book.

BILL BOHLINE, LEAD PASTOR OF HOSANNA! LUTHERAN CHURCH; AUTHOR OF ITS SUNDAY, BUT MONDAYS COMIN

In the spirit of generosity, the authors will not receive any compensation from the sale of this book.

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Your New Money Mindset: Create a Healthy Relationship with Money

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All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the Holy Bible