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A blessed New Year to you! I pray you are stepping into 2026 with a fresh passion for your God-given vision, expectant faith for God-sized faith targets, and clear priorities. I’ve just returned from a few days of personal retreat where I cultivated all this in my heart. Such personal retreats I take at the turn of every year—to evaluate, listen to God, and determine faith goals for the next year.

If you’ve ever thought, “If we just had more money, our ministry could really take off,” this episode is for you. I sit down with movement practitioner and author Brett Butler to tackle one of the trickiest issues in ministry – money. Together we explore the theme “When Money Hurts Ministry.” Drawing on years of conversations with movement leaders, Brett unpacks how funding can unintentionally damage movements, why “more money” is rarely the real solution, and how leaders can move toward truly self-sustaining ministry.

We dive into biblical principles for handling money wisely, and how to discern when funding actually helps—and when it quietly harms. This conversation is especially for frontline movement practitioners and leaders who wrestle with the financial side of multiplying disciples and churches.

If, after listening, you want to go deeper, you can do this on Brett’s website www.movementsandmoney.org, or check out his book To Whom Much Was Given in audio or print, offered at subsided prices.

Who in your network will benefit from this? Please forward or restack—it could inspire someone’s next step in making their ministry more self-sustaining..

Warmly, Emanuel Prinz – Father’s beloved & movement activist