Best of 2025: Transform Your Finances: Smart Steps for a Secure Future
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 5 January 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Christian financial advisor Russ Crosson has spent more than 45 years guiding individuals and couples in everyday financial situations. Discussing his book, Your Money Made Simple, he offers practical advice for mastering your finances biblically—and it’s not about how much money you make!
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| 0:00.0 | Chat GPT and AI can offer you ideas and attempt to give you answers, but it can't listen with compassion, |
| 0:07.1 | pray with you, or guide you with wisdom shaped by faith. When life feels overwhelming, real human connection matters. |
| 0:14.8 | At Focus on the Family, we believe in the power of professional help and biblical wisdom. |
| 0:20.3 | That's why we offer a free, confidential consultation with a caring Christian counselor |
| 0:25.2 | to walk with you through life struggles. |
| 0:27.9 | Whether you're navigating challenges in marriage, parenting, anxiety, grief, or something |
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| 0:36.0 | If you're hurting, don't wait. Hope is real and healing |
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| 0:47.8 | 1-800-232-6459 or visit focusonthefamily.com slash get help. That's focus on the family.com |
| 0:58.3 | slash get help. So what we're talking about here is the truth, not complicated, not easy to do, |
| 1:06.1 | but am I going to have the courage to do it? And then when inflation happens, when I've got to really start whittling the way at those student loans because the government didn't pay them off for me, I'm doing the right thing. I'm taking the right step. And then to see what God does. Welcome to a best of 2025 edition of Focus on the Family with Jim Daly. I'm John Fuller, and today we hope to give you the tools you need to manage your finances with God in mind. |
| 1:29.4 | Thanks for joining us. |
| 1:30.7 | You know, John, budgeting is tough. |
| 1:32.7 | Coming off the Christmas season, Jean and I are always spending a little bit more money on gifts and meals with family. |
| 1:40.2 | And there are so many opportunities to spend around the holidays to bless others, which is a good spirit. |
| 1:46.1 | But sometimes it could be a little steep, right? |
| 1:48.8 | But let's face it, nowadays there are opportunities to spend all year long, and it can get exhausting to try to stick to a budget. |
| 1:56.9 | Here's some trivia. |
| 1:58.0 | 25% of couples, that's one in four, confess that managing finances is their |
| 2:03.8 | most significant relationship challenge. That's a big number. Money and all the baggage that |
| 2:09.6 | comes with it can be hard on your family. And that's exactly why this program really resonated with |
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