#42 - John Coleman
The Eric Metaxas Show
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🗓️ 24 January 2026
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Today On The Eric Metaxas Show, Eric talks with John Coleman about a biblical view of money and why Christians should earn, spend, invest, and give with purpose. They break down Good Money, a six step framework for building a financial life that serves human flourishing, and they challenge the culture’s retirement mindset with his argument to save for freedom, not permanent leisure. Subscribe for clips from The Eric Metaxas Show to hear politics and culture from a Christian perspective.📢 Sponsor: BlockTrustIRA — Smarter Crypto Investing for Your Retirement: https://www.metaxascrypto.com/⏱️ TIMESTAMPS0:00 Intro0:35 John Coleman Joins2:31 Is Money Evil Or Misused?6:07 Six Steps To Good Money7:09 Save For Freedom, Not Retirement14:09 Practical Ways To Find Purpose19:55 What Do Young People Believe Now?22:38 Final Takeaways
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, the folks, welcome back. |
| 0:01.6 | I have as my guest, my friend, John Coleman. |
| 0:05.2 | He is the managing partner of sovereign's capital, co-founder of faith-driven investors. |
| 0:10.7 | And he's the author of a book. |
| 0:12.8 | I like the title of the book. |
| 0:14.2 | It is Good Money, Six Steps to Building a Financial Life with Purpose. |
| 0:25.5 | Hop on the train. Six steps to building a financial life with purpose. I am all about that, folks. |
| 0:27.7 | Everything we do is we should do with purpose, |
| 0:30.3 | including how we invest and how we spend and all of that stuff. |
| 0:33.7 | So John Coleman, welcome back. |
| 0:35.2 | Hey, thank you so much, Eric. |
| 0:36.5 | It's a privilege to be here. Well, this is important because, I mean, I've said this so many times in so many different ways that we're supposed to do everything to the glory of God. And, you know, it's one thing to say, like, you need to vote. Like some some some Christians are so pathetic that they're like |
| 0:54.9 | yeah I don't vote you're like well you know we have a lot of influence and so if you can vote in |
| 1:00.3 | America that's number one but that's just the beginning everything we do um how we spend our |
| 1:07.4 | money where we spend our money where we we invest our money, all of that stuff |
| 1:10.8 | matters. And you're in the middle of that. So talk a little bit about what you do because I know |
| 1:17.6 | you care about this and know much more about it than I do. Yeah, Eric, and you're spot on. |
| 1:22.4 | You know, the Christian teachings have a lot to say about money throughout. I think it's the most mentioned thing in the Bible, something like 2,350 references. And certainly many of those are cautionary. People are familiar with the verse. The love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. And yet, God also blesses certain people with money. Abraham was one of the richest people of his day, David, Solomon, |
| 1:45.7 | even characters in the New Testament who are blessed with money that they could use for kingdom |
| 1:51.0 | purposes in the way that others were gifted with other talents. And so that's one of the guiding |
| 1:55.9 | things that's influenced me right now is trying to explore in my day job, both as a writer and investor, |
| 2:02.6 | I'm very focused on human flourishing. I've written books for Harvard about this in the past, |
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