No Jelly Fish with Jeremy Weaver-CMAW057

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 [email protected]  https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremysweaver/   https://www.ronblue.com/Financial-Advisors/Jeremy-Weaver