Wise Financial Resources

Wise Financial Resources is a ministry at Alliance Bible Fellowship that provides curated resources by Jim Loscheider, Elder, other contributors, and from various trusted Christian authorities/experts. Articles are published can be found below.

Our goal is to provide Godly advice and practical insights for financial decisions facing believers, or anyone else. You will find biblical principles, useful tools, practical information, inspiration, and encouragement. You’re not alone!

Financial Peace University – Our Core Curriculum

At the soul of Wise Financial Resources is Ramsey Solutions’ Financial Peace University (FPU). Several hundred folks have taken FPU at Alliance since we started offering it over ten years ago. Many lives and marriages have been transformed through this ministry. There are 15 experienced FPU Coordinators at Alliance.

Financial Coaching Ministry

The role of financial coaches is to understand the situation, provide helpful information and insights, and to inject hope. We are working on developing a team of Ramsey Solutions Master Financial Coaches at Alliance.

The Master Training is designed to help Alliance offer a financial coaching ministry to confidentially come along side individuals and couples who are seeking to manage their finances better or seek a second opinion to make financial decisions wisely.

This training involved 15 lessons that had 5-6 chapters each. Following each lesson, and at the end of each Chapter, participants take tests to help validate what they’ve learned. In addition, there are group coaching calls hosted by the Ramsey Solutions team with 20-25 other individuals studying from all over the country.

Meet Your Ramsey Solutions Master Financial Coaches:

Jim Loscheider

I became a follower of Jesus Christ at the age of 29. As husband, father, grandfather, my greatest desire is to faithfully follow Christ. My career as a believer has been a rocket ride hanging on to the Lord’s leading. After five years of teaching, eleven years in the investment and insurance profession, the Lord drew me into ministry. With a passion for studying Biblical Stewardship, Generosity, and working in three Christian nonprofits, I finished my ministry career having served eighteen years as Vice President of Donor Ministries with Samaritan’s Purse, transitioning in 2018 to pursue my passion for helping people make wise financial decisions based on Biblical Wisdom.

For over thirty years my wife and I have facilitated a variety of Christian Financial Programs. We started with Larry Burkett’s Financial Freedom Seminars, led Ron Blue’s “Master Your Money” classes, and most recently, Ramsey Solutions “Financial Peace University” at ABF for the past twelve years. I’m humbled by what God has done. Trained as a financial wellness coach in 2012 and then recently completing the Ramsey Solutions Master Financial Coach training, I hope to be a resource for others on the journey to stewarding well what God has entrusted to them. I look forward to serving you.

Brenda Isaacs

My background is rooted in deep relationships with others where my childhood was enriched by a small close-knit community of believers and non-believers alike. Mentors encouraged me to further my education when I wanted to live like the status quo with no vision or goals. Each time I wanted to “be finished / done” and just “settle” with a bland cyclical life, God sends His messengers to encourage and prod me onward to a higher calling.

I was two years old when my Dad was in an industrial accident which left him with a significant, life-altering brain injury. Due to this major life event, my siblings and I have held some kind of employment since we were 14 years old. I worked my way through college and with God’s help graduated debt free. I’ve spent 22 years on staff in ministry as well as worked for local, state, and federal governments. I currently work in accounting and human resources with a local, private family company.

God continues to send people to prod me onward towards His higher calling. This is how I met Jim and Adah Loscheider. My husband and I were most likely in Jim’s very first Financial Peace University class all those years ago. At that time, we were loaded down with short-term and long-term debt. We had two school-age children, and I had a desire to stay at home more and work less. Imagine my disappointment to learn that our debt load would prevent me from being able to live out that high and Holy calling of being a stay-at-home mom.

I am now a trained Ramsey Solutions Master Financial Coach. It’s now my turn to use my life experiences, professional growth and the lessons God has taught me through a lot of hard knocks and sleepless nights to help others to “do things differently.” From living impoverished as a child to landing on my feet when my children’s father died, God has been with me every step along the way. I am deeply honored and humbled to be a part of the ABF Financial Coaching Team.

David Sexton

My life has been a story of God’s providence and provision. Jesus became my Lord and Savior through youth ministry when I was 13. I mowed lawns in the neighborhood and helped at the family business. I believe dad paid me 25 cents per hour! I cooked in restaurants from the 8th grade through college and drew house plans for a local contractor. I pursued an education in engineering. I obtained a minority scholarship, cooked and taught classes to pay for my education and expenses. Graduated debt free in ‘81. I took a job as a structural engineer at Duke Power. I moved into Project Management and System Engineering roles at Duke’s nuclear plants. I resigned after 18 years due to God calling me into ministry. I then served as Administrative/Executive Pastor at a Southern Baptist Church for 15 years and retired in June of 2014.

Through my life’s journey, God was increasing my awareness and skills with numbers, budgets, details, people, money management and goals. God was revealing His ways in finances through my exposure to Ron Blue’s Master Your Money books in the late 80s and attending Larry Burkett ‘s Financial Freedom seminars at our church. I was certified to teach Crown Financial classes and began facilitating Financial Peace classes in the late ‘90s. I thank God for His hand in my life’s course.

I desire to help others grasp and live out God’s way with their finances and wealth. I’m a trained “Ramsey Solutions Master Financial Coach”. If you want someone to walk with you on your financial adventure with God, I’d be honored to serve you. Below is my contact information.