Where’s Your Treasure?
Where is your treasure? Is it on earth or in heaven? And what does that even mean? Mary Hunt, Callie Briese, Randy Alcorn, and Dennis Rainey help give perspective and offer tips for how to better manage your earthly blessings.
Show Notes
When it comes to giving, are you a tightwad or an open hand? Randy Alcorn, author of 'The Treasure Principle,' helps us gain a biblical perspective on money.
Dennis Rainey talks with author Mary Hunt, an expert in money management and a contributing editor at Woman's Day magazine, about teaching your children financial responsibility.
About the Guest
Callie Briese
Callie Briese is manager of external relations for Thrivent Financial, a not-for-profit financial services organization that helps Christians be wise with money and live generously. Thrivent serves more than 2.3 million Christians in the U.S. and provides guidance on their journey to a healthy money mindset. Callie is responsible for creating and executing Thrivent’s external communications strategy and leads the organization’s media relations program. Prior to joining the organization, Callie worked at a PR firm in the Twin Cities.
Callie obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology from the University of Montana in Missoula. She, her husband Ryan and their three young children reside in Minnesota.
As someone who believes in the importance of giving back to others, she serves on a board of directors for NeighborWorks Home Partners, a Twin Cities nonprofit dedicated to helping individuals and families buy, keep, and maintain their homes. She also volunteers in children’s ministry at her church.
Dennis Rainey
Dennis Rainey cofounded FamilyLife®, a ministry of Cru®. Since the organization began in 1976 through 2017, Dennis’ leadership enabled FamilyLife to grow into a dynamic and vital ministry in more than 109 countries around the world helping families discover the joy God intended for their relationships with God, spouse, and kids.
Dennis has authored or co-authored more than 35 books, including best-selling Moments Together for Couples and Staying Close and has received two Golden Medallion Awards from the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association. In addition, he served as the senior editor of the HomeBuilders Couples Series®, which has sold over 3 million copies and has been translated into 47 languages.
A powerful and effective communicator, Dennis hosted the nationally-syndicated radio program FamilyLife Today® through early 2019 on more than 1,300 radio outlets in all 50 states. During his tenure on the program, FamilyLife Today was recipient of the National Religious Broadcasters Radio Program of the Year Award three times. Dennis serves on the Board of Directors of Dallas Theological Seminary.
Dennis and Barbara have been married since 1972 and love laughing with their six children and growing number of grandchildren. In his spare time, Dennis enjoys helping Barbara in their garden, reading great books, and pursuing his passions for hunting and fishing. They live near Little Rock, Arkansas.
Mary Hunt
Randy Alcorn
Randy Alcorn is an author and the Founder and Director of Eternal Perspective Ministries (EPM), a nonprofit ministry dedicated to teaching principles of God’s Word and assisting the church in ministering to the unreached, unfed, unborn, uneducated, unreconciled, and unsupported people around the world. His ministry focus is communicating the strategic importance of using our earthly time, money, possessions and opportunities to invest in need-meeting ministries that count for eternity. He accomplishes this by analyzing, teaching, and applying the biblical truth.
Before starting EPM in 1990, Randy served as a pastor for fourteen years. He has an MA degree in Biblical Studies from Multnomah University and an Honorary Doctorate from Western Seminary in Portland, Oregon and has taught on the adjunct faculties of both.
A New York Times bestselling author, Randy has written more than forty books, including the bestsellers Heaven, The Treasure Principle, and the Gold Medallion winner Safely Home. His books in print exceed seven million and have been translated into over thirty languages. Randy has written for many magazines including EPM’s quarterly issues-oriented magazine Eternal Perspectives. He is active daily on Facebook and Twitter, has been a guest on more than 700 radio, television and online programs including Focus on the Family, FamilyLife Today, Revive Our Hearts, The Bible Answer Man, and The Resurgence.
Randy resides in Gresham, Oregon, with his wife, Nanci. They have two married daughters and are the proud grandparents of five grandsons. Randy enjoys hanging out with his family, biking, tennis, research, and reading.
About the Host
Michelle Hill
Radio has been ingrained in Michelle for most of her life. This love for radio has taken her to various radio stations and ministries in places like Chicago, Alaska and other snow covered terrains like her hometown in north central Iowa. In 2005 she landed on staff with Cru/FamilyLife®. While at FamilyLife she has overseen the expansion of FamilyLife Today® internationally, assisted with the creation of Passport2Identity™-Womanhood and is now the host of FamilyLife This Week®.
For the last 15+ years Michelle has been mentoring young women and is passionate about helping them find their identity in God. She also has a fascination for snowflakes and the color yellow. Michelle makes her home in Little Rock, Arkansas.