Love in Action: Faith, Generosity, and Following the Nudge with Pastor Adam Weber
What does it look like to actually live the transformational power of love, not just talk about it? In this episode, Senior Wealth Advisors Kevin Engbers and Ryan Ovenden sit down with Pastor Adam Weber, Lead Pastor at Embrace Church. Adam began as a business and marketing major who expected to do ministry through the business world, and for years he treated his entrepreneurial drive as a flaw. Now he sees it as a gift placed exactly where God wanted it used, and he argues the same is true for anyone in any job: wherever you are placed, you can do full-time ministry. The conversation moves from how a self-described recovering workaholic protects his marriage and his rest, to the hardest year of Adam's life and the book it produced, Love Has a Name. Kevin ties it to the first of the nine principles in his own book, True Wealth: being a living example of the transformational power of love. Adam shares the story of how his parents' bankruptcy made money a god for him, how his wife Becky insisted they tithe from their first paycheck, and the peace that came from inviting God into their finances. Ryan tells the story of a lunch, a recommended book, and a final conversation with his dying father-in-law that Kevin sent him out of the office to have. In This Episode Why any job can be full-time ministry, and why Adam spent 12 years seeing his drive as a flaw How a recovering workaholic pastor protects his family, with a set work schedule and mentors who ask hard questions Phone-free mornings, walks with his dog Senator, and the A-frame cabin behind two barbed-wire fences How the hardest year of Adam's life produced Love Has a Name, with every chapter named for a person who taught him to love Why the difficult person is harder to love than the different one, and what happened when Adam invited a critic from his DMs out for coffee Ryan's story of a lunch, a book that reached his father-in-law days before a terminal diagnosis, and a 30-second goodbye Why Kevin sent Ryan out of the office that day, and the friend named Doug who calls whenever Kevin is on his heart How Adam's parents' bankruptcy turned money into a god for him, and how tithing from the first paycheck broke that hold Adam's starter challenge for generosity: a thousand dollars in twenties, ten of them in your pocket every day Adam's one thing for every listener, and his answer to the question "true wealth to me is what?" Guest: Pastor Adam Weber, Lead Pastor at Embrace Church Hosts: Kevin Engbers, CFP®, Senior Wealth Advisor, CEO & Founder Ryan Ovenden, CFP®, CKA®, Senior Wealth Advisor, Chief Planning Officer (CPO)
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