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About Faithful Wallet

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David Bennett

Founder & Editor, Faithful Wallet

Husband, father of two, and lifelong student of biblical stewardship. Writing from the conviction that money is a discipleship issue.

Why This Blog Exists

Faithful Wallet was born out of a simple frustration. As a Christian family trying to navigate budgets, debt, giving, and long-term planning, I kept finding two kinds of personal finance content online — neither of which fit. One side was secular finance writing that treated money as a purely technical problem, with no place for faith, calling, or eternity. The other was prosperity-flavored content that seemed to promise God would multiply your bank account if you gave enough.

Neither matched the Bible I was reading. Scripture takes money seriously — there are more than 2,000 verses about wealth, stewardship, and generosity — but it never reduces money to a spreadsheet, and it never treats God as a return-on-investment vending machine. I started Faithful Wallet to be the kind of resource I wished I had: practical, honest, biblically grounded, and willing to sit in the tension between faith and financial reality.

Who I Am

I'm David — a husband, a father of two, and a small business owner based just outside Nashville, in Franklin, Tennessee. My family attends a local evangelical church where my wife and I have served in various ministries over the years, including a season leading a young couples' small group focused largely on the financial pressures young families face. That season is what first made me realize how much Christians struggle to talk about money honestly — and how rarely the church equips us to think biblically about it.

I'm not a Certified Financial Planner. I don't sell financial products. I have no commission to earn from anything you do on this site. What I bring to Faithful Wallet is over a decade of wrestling with these questions personally — paying off our own debt, learning to give before it felt comfortable, navigating money in marriage, teaching our kids about stewardship, making mistakes, and trying to apply Scripture to the actual decisions in front of us each month.

How I Write

Every article on this blog is written and edited by me personally. I research carefully, treat Scripture as the primary source, and reference reliable secondary sources when discussing anything technical — IRS rules, retirement account mechanics, insurance basics. Like most writers today, I use modern tools to help with drafting and outlining, but every published article is reviewed, fact-checked, and edited line by line before it goes up. The voice, the convictions, and the conclusions are mine.

I will never publish content I haven't read end to end, and I will never publish financial claims I haven't verified. If I get something wrong, I want to hear about it.

What This Blog Covers

  • Biblical stewardship — the foundational framework
  • Budgeting and saving — practical tools for real families
  • Debt and credit — how to think about borrowing biblically
  • Giving and generosity — beyond the tithe
  • Investing and retirement — long-term planning without idolizing the future
  • Family finances — money conversations with spouse and kids

Who This Is For

Christian families in North America who want their financial life to reflect their faith — not in a performative way, but in the slow, ordinary, sometimes-difficult way that real discipleship actually looks. If you're a young couple just figuring out how to budget together, a parent trying to teach your kids about generosity, or someone in their 40s wondering if you're saving the right way for retirement — this blog is written for you.

A Note on Financial Advice

Everything on Faithful Wallet is for educational and informational purposes only. It is not personal financial advice, tax advice, or legal advice. Your situation is unique, and major financial decisions should involve a qualified professional who knows your specific circumstances. Please don't take a blog post — mine or anyone else's — as a substitute for that.

Affiliate Disclosure

Faithful Wallet is reader-supported. Some links on this site are affiliate links, which means I may earn a small commission if you make a purchase — at no additional cost to you. I only recommend resources I have personally used or reviewed and would recommend to a friend.

Get in Touch

Questions, corrections, topic suggestions, or just a hello — I read every email.

📧 contact@faithfulwallet.com

"Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much." — Luke 16:10

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