Jul 15, 2019
What You'll Hear:
- Jeremy made a confession of faith in the Presbyterian Church but on May 24, 2009 he came to know and trust Christ. He had stresses and sin patterns and had a half-hearted commitment and came to the conclusion that he didn't have the new birth. His eyes were opened and he was reading Isaiah 55.
- We get things from low points that we can't get from a mountain top
- Jeremy works for Ronald Blue Trust Company as a wealth manager/financial planner, walking with clients through transitions in life
- At the end of day, he wants to decrease his clients' dependence on worldly wealth and increase their dependence on Christ
- He's started a Bible study with some of his clients
- As John Calvin said "our hearts are idol factories"
- Our hearts were made for one thing, to desire and worship something. If it's not Christ, most likely it's money
- John Piper talks about a war time mentality as Christians, where we are content with loss to put more into the Kingdom
- "Money reduces the friction between me and my idol, it lets me have it faster"
- "Money undresses the heart faster than anything else"
- Stay in the center of Biblical tension at all times
- He worked at a Winn-Dixie grocery store and at the YMCA as a young man
- He wishes he would have focused more on academics than working while in college
- Jeremy's first job after getting his Masters was with Arthur Anderson in Columbia, SC in late August, 2001, just before 9/11
- It used to be the Big 8 Accounting firms, now it's the Final Four
- Arthur Anderson was very entrepreneurial, big into technology, and focused on consulting
- Sarbanes-Oxley was helpful preventing fraud, but the Federal Government came down too hard on Arthur Anderson and 28,000 independent people lost their jobs
- Check out "Firm of the Future" by Ron Baker. Jeremy feels that billable hours deforms the idea of value in the marketplace
- Value has to be determined in the buyer's eyes, that's what should set price
- "I'm not here to be a jelly fish to float downstream"
- Life verse is Ezra 7:10
- jsweaverfamily@gmail.com
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