Check the format first. The listing this post originally pointed to is the audiobook, narrated by Al Kessel and produced by Author’s Republic. The previous review described diagrams and journaling prompts “throughout the book,” which is not something an audiobook can have. Print and Kindle editions exist and both are linked below.
Jonathan Geraci is a pastor who has worked in both small and large churches. His argument for writing the book is that a large share of what he was dealing with pastorally traced back to how people related to money.
What is actually in it
The book covers four areas. Applying the fruit of the Spirit to your financial life. The emotional and spiritual consequences of debt, and how to get out. Five money myths Geraci says Christians commonly fall into. And four principles from Scripture for building wealth.
The most useful of those is the debt material. Geraci treats debt as something that does damage beyond the balance sheet, to your sleep, your marriage, and your sense of what you are capable of. That is true and it is underweighted in most finance books, which handle debt purely as arithmetic.
The five money myths section is the other genuinely useful piece, because most of what Christians believe about money was absorbed rather than taught, and naming a bad assumption out loud is most of the work of fixing it.
What to weigh
The title says “secrets,” and the framing promises a path to being “financially free.” Be a little careful with that. Scripture does not contain wealth-building secrets in the sense of techniques that reliably produce money, and the honest parts of this book are not secrets at all: spend less than you make, get out of debt, give generously, be patient. Those are old and true and unglamorous.
Geraci is a pastor rather than a financial professional, and the book is self-published. Neither disqualifies it, and the pastoral read on money is the part he is actually qualified to give. But if you want investment guidance specifically, get it from someone whose job that is.
The previous review also credited the book with diagrams and journaling prompts, and quoted a review team discussing their budgets. There was no team, and I could not verify the diagrams or prompts in any edition. Both have been removed.
Who should read it
A man carrying debt who has done the math already and still cannot get moving, because the problem is not the math. Someone who wants the pastoral and spiritual side of money rather than another budgeting system. Good in a small group, where the myths section will start real conversations.
Skip it if you want technical financial planning, or if you are already well past the basics.
Wealth Building Secrets from the Bible, print edition