Trusted: Preparing Your Kids for a Lifetime of God-Honoring Money Management

by Matt Bell

When your kids develop a healthy relationship with money at an early age, it will help every aspect of their lives to flourish.

Kids have an invaluable They have time. And the multiplying impact of wise money-management lessons learned early will be staggering. Cultivating within them a heart for generosity and wise habits around earning, saving, investing, and spending will impact every aspect of their lives—their relationship with Jesus, their future marriage, their ability to make a difference with their lives, and much more.

In Trusted, Matt Bell provides the stories, motivation, and guidance you need to help your kids develop powerfully effective biblical money-management attitudes and behaviors. Drawing from his family’s experiences and those of other parents, Matt will equip you to teach your kids the purpose of money and how to pursue biblical financial priorities—everything they need to get on the right path for a lifetime of effective, joyful, God-glorifying money management. Includes plenty of examples, suggested conversation topics, and activities to do together with your children.

Genres: Parenting, Nonfiction

230 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 4, 2023

About the author

Matt Bell is Managing Editor at Sound Mind Investing, a Christian company that helps people invest well and grow as stewards of God’s resources. Bell is the author of five personal finance books and the Matt About Money blog. He has been interviewed by U.S. News & World Report, WGN-TV, Chris Fabry Live, MoneyWise Live, and many other outlets. Bell, who earned a master’s degree from DePaul University, offers video training on biblical money management through Right Now Media.
He has spoken at churches, universities, and conferences throughout the U.S. His unintentional reenactment of the Bible’s parable of the prodigal son completely changed his life, opened his eyes to a whole new way of managing money, and gave him a passion to help others manage money well. Matt lives with his wife, Jude, and their three children near Louisville.

Reviews

[ArynTheLibraryan · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a fascinating parenting book, and while the target topic is financial stewardship and wisdom, it has a much more broad impact than that.

It truly helps you to be able to help your kids become responsible adults capable of long-range planning, building an attitude of generosity in more than just financial ways, and delayed gratification, which is an increasingly rare and helpful life skill!

The book is full of practical advice and how-to information. Each chapter ends with a concise recap of the chapter advice which you use as an index as well as a planning guide. There are suggestions for applicable verses for you and your kids to memorize.

I need to get ahold of a hardcopy because I can see the need to refer to it over and over again through the years ahead.

I received a copy of this book from Netgalley and chose to review it here. All thoughts are my own.

[Achu Aswathi · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book Trusted by Matt Bell is about money management with some spirituality and how the Christianity as mentioned about money management and verses related to it,

The author has mentioned how he was overspending and used money before getting the insight to go in right direction and how he started teaching money management. This book is not only to help us with teaching kids about finance, saving and investing, we can also learn and practice from it. The way the author says how he implemented this with children was so nice to hear.

It was really helpful read for me and made me remember my childhood and teenage and how our parents thought us budgeting and made me know the house hold expenses and they had given allowances too.

The writing style was so simple and each chapter discuss well about financial skills that are necessary and that can improve the behaviour and mould the child well and make them right choices at right time.

[Chloe · Rating 3 out of 5]

Although this book isn’t really for me as I’m an atheist, it definitely has some important lessons in it regarding how to be more smart with your finances and how to pass these lessons onto your children. I feel like I definitely learned some things from this book in different areas such as the importance of investing, how to be more generous with your money and how different temperaments can affect your attitudes towards money. If you’re planning on bringing up your children with the importance of God and teachings from the Bible then this would be a good read for you with some great lessons throughout.

[Angela W. · Rating 3 out of 5]

While the book wasn’t exactly revolutionary, it was Biblically solid. I believe the author used his own experience of mismanaging money in his young adulthood as a springboard to prevent his children from repeating his mistakes. He presents a typical give, save, spend model fit youngsters, but he offers more challenging money managing tasks as the children mature. I felt like part 1 & 2 were the strengths of the book. The dive into various temperaments in the last section was much weaker in my opinion.. Overall, there were some good takeaways for parents.

[Tracy · Rating 4 out of 5]

What a great resource in teaching our children biblical wisdom regarding money and finances. This book is filled with practical, down-to-earth strategies and solutions to our consumer driven world. I highly recommend this to parents looking for ways to teach their children a biblical approach to money.

Thanks to NetGalley for this free ARC in exchange of an honest review.

[Andrew Wolgemuth · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent for parents who want to impart biblical financial wisdom to their children...and for parents who need some wisdom and reminders themselves!

(full disclosure: the agency of which I'm a partner represents Matt and this book)

[LaShanda Chamberlain · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book contains solid parenting advice. It is packed with practical money management skills from a biblical perspective. While I do not have kids of my own, I have 4 nephews. There are gems here I can use with them.

Thanks to NetGalley for this free ARC in exchange of an honest review.

[Jerah Alvarado · Rating 4 out of 5]

What a great tool to help teach your children the responsibility of money. I got so many nuggets to apply with my family and for myself. I wish I had read this when my oldest was smaller!

[David Wenzel · Rating 3 out of 5]

A good book for parents thinking about how to teach kids about money. For those steeper in financial literacy this may be a bit more of a book covering the basics.