TS&TT: Fiscal Transparency: What Hath DOGE to do with Your Congregation

The Sword & The Trowel

Founders Ministries

Education, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 794 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Today on The Sword & The Trowel podcast, Tom Ascol and Graham Gunden discuss fiscal transparency and the work being done in the Federal government by DOGE. They talk about the need that the SBC and other christian organizations have for a DOGE-like movement for transparency. Show Notes:Get a FREE Bag of Coffee from Squirrelly Joe's: https://SquirrellyJoes.com/Founders Pre-Order "The Pilgrim’s Progress - A Poetic Journey": https://press.founders.org/shop/the-pilgrims-progress-a-poetic-journey/ Get 10% off Miller's Grove Soap with code "FOUNDERS": https://TheMillersGrove.com Pre-Order "Resist Tyrants, Obey God": https://press.founders.org/shop/resist-tyrants-obey-god/ Register for the 2026 National Founders Conference - Make Disciples: https://founders.org/conference/ Pre-Order "What Did God Make?": http://press.founders.org/shop/what-did-god-make/ Pre-Order "Made to be Glorious": https://press.founders.org/shop/made-to-be-glorious/ Shop the Founders Press Store: https://press.founders.org/ Become a part of the F.A.M. https://press.founders.org/fam/ The Institute of Public Theology: https://www.instituteofpublictheology.org/ Wield The Sword: https://founders.org/wieldthesword/ Follow Founders Ministries: Website: https://founders.orgFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/FoundersMin/Twitter: https://twitter.com/FoundersMinInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/foundersministries/ All Founders Ministries resources are copyrighted and any use and distribution must be approved by Founders Ministries.

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0:00.0	Thank you for joining us for this conversation today on the Sword and the Trial.
0:03.0	Today, Pastor Tom and I talk about fiscal transparency.
0:05.8	A lot of the things that we're seeing going on in the federal government with
0:08.2	Doge and then also the need that the SBC has and other Christian organizations have
0:12.6	for a Doge-like movement for fiscal transparency.
0:15.8	I hope this is a helpful conversation to you.
0:17.4	Take a listen.
0:23.9	Welcome to The Sword and the Troll. The Sword and the Trial is a podcast of Founders Ministries and Founders Exist for the Recovery of the Gospel and the Reformation of Local Churches. I'm
0:28.7	Graham Gundin. I'm Tom Askell. And this episode is brought to you by Squirley Joe's Coffee in the Miller's
0:33.8	Grove soap company. Today we want to talk a bit about financial transparency.
0:39.4	There's a lot going on today in our own culture, and I think it's important that we have
0:43.4	this conversation.
0:44.2	What's so important about transparency, and why is it on your mind?
0:48.8	Yeah, we're recording this, what, two or three weeks into Trump's administration, and
0:54.1	it's like whiplash trying to keep up with every new exposure of government waste and fraud.
1:03.0	It's sad, but it's confirming of what many people have suspected for years.
1:08.8	We've just all been told, look, don't worry about that.
1:11.5	You know, the government's budget is so big. This is minuscule percentage wise. And, you know,
1:16.4	what's a few billion here, a few being there? You know, it doesn't really add up to much.
1:20.9	And so now that we're being confronted with the reality you can't turn away from of how much
1:25.9	abuse has been going on just in one week recently, in one week, it was
1:31.8	discovered that USAID, or was it, no, it's FEMA that sent 59 million to New York City to house
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