The Finish Line Podcast Taylor Standridge, FaithFi Production Manager, on the Central Motivations of the Generous Heart (Ep. 157)
Taylor Standridge, production manager at FaithFi, is passionate about creating engaging content that makes an impact for the Kingdom of God. Taylor developed a love for radio in his early years which grew into a passion to see more Christian programming on radio and podcasting platforms. Today, Taylor has an extensive background in radio and media production, as well as a seminary degree from Dallas Theological Seminary which combines to create and deliver deeply impactful content, particularly in the generosity space.
As production manager, Taylor walks through the Faith and Finance radio program and podcast from beginning to end, as well as their one-minute program on 1900 signals across the nation, to share the message of God as our ultimate treasure. He’s a frequent content creator for the FaithFi team and has much wisdom to share on many topics surrounding faith, generosity, and personal finance.
Major Topics Include:
- Taylor’s discoveries about wealth in the Scriptures
- Approaching investing through a theological lens
- Viewing every dollar as an opportunity to be generous
- A biblical view of eternal reward
- The “my value is in my money” identity crisis
- Practical steps for aligning your finances with the Kingdom
- Knowing God through Scripture for Kingdom-aligned financial decisions
- “When it comes to managing money God’s way, it’s not just attaching a Bible verse to a financial principle and calling it biblical. But it’s looking deeply at the story of the Bible and finding out what it has to say about money and how we relate to it.”
- “I approach everything that comes through our accounts as belonging to the Lord and everything is an opportunity to be generous.”
- “We often think of eternal rewards as being merit based, but when we look at how God speaks about obedience in Scripture we realize that obedience is not our gift back to God, it’s actually God’s gift to us.”
- “It is God’s grace that enables us to obey Him.”
- “If our ultimate treasure is not God Himself and we’re more excited about what we’ll get from Him, I think we’re still fundamentally making the same mistake as worshiping money instead of Him.”
- “When we get to Heaven, I think we’ll find that we didn’t sacrifice at all, we simply let go of what was not eternal.”
- “God is our treasure. We utilize everything else as a tool to accomplish His purposes.”
- “Money promises us everything that God does, but doesn’t deliver on any of them.”
- “If we realize that our ultimate value is in God, we don’t see our money or assets as indicative of our value. But we recognize that we’re so valuable that God Himself died on a cross for us.”
- “God doesn’t need us, but He chooses to involve us in His work.”
- “I don’t think you can understand God’s heart for the world until you know God’s story.”
- “Debt obligates you to the past and prevents you from opportunity for the future.”
- “Peace-of-mind and security should never come from money.”
- “Financial security is a feeling because God knows my needs more intimately than I do. And if He can feed people with manna from Heaven, I think I’ll be fine.”
- “There’s currently 22 trillion dollars worth of assets managed by Christians in this country. Christians here have tremendous influence and opportunity to make God known.”
- FaithFi
- FaithFi Podcast and Radio Program
- Kingdom Advisors (see our interview with founder, Ron Blue)
- Insight for Living
- More than Money Podcast with Art Rainer
- Ronald Blue and Co., CPA (see our interview with founder, Ron Blue)
- Eternal Perspective Ministries (see our interview with founder, Randy Alcorn)
- The Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey
- Simple Money, Rich Life by Bob Lotich
- Undue Medical Debt
- The Finish Line Community Facebook Group
- The Finish Line Community LinkedIn Group
Proverbs 13:22a | A Lasting Inheritance
A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children,
Malachi 3:10 | Put Me to the Test
Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby put me to the test, says the Lord of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need.
Philippians 2:13 | God’s Grace for Obedience
for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.
Matthew 13:44 | The Parable of the Hidden Treasure
“The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered up. Then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.
Luke 6:35 | Give Freely
But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.
Matthew 20:1-16 | Laborers in the Vineyard
Ephesians 2:8-10 | By Grace Through Faith for Good Works
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
2 Timothy 3:16 | God-Breathed Scripture
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
Ephesians 3:20-21 | More than We Could Imagine
Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
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