A 28-week journey through work, money, and a life well lived
Walk the old road to wealth, one step at a time.
Twenty-eight timeless principles from the old books and the Scriptures. Read the story, work the lesson, take one step this week, and collect your stamp. Free tools help you put each one to work.
A pilgrim’s road for your work and your money
For a thousand years, pilgrims have walked the Way of St. James to Santiago. They carry a credencial, a little passport, and collect a stamp at each stop along the road. The stamps don’t make the journey. They mark it.
The Wealth Wisdom Journey works the same way. Twenty-eight lessons, one a week, take about half a year. Each one begins with a true story from the old books, like John Jacob Astor setting out with everything he owned tied in a red handkerchief. Each one ends with a single step you take that week.
How it works
1.
Read the chapter.
A true story, the principle behind it, and what Scripture says about it.
2.
Work the lesson.
The Companion Workbook gives you questions to answer and a practical exercise.
3.
Take one step.
Choose one thing you will do this week, date it, and sign your name to it.
4.
Color your stamp.
Thirty days later, check in. If you did it, color that lesson’s stamp in your credencial.
Where Am I on the Journey?
The five stages of the road
Stage 1
Build the Person
Character comes before capital. Self-reliance, diligence, and the use of your time.
Stage 2
Create Value and Earn
Honest money begins with useful work. Jobs, skills, and knowing the state of your affairs.
Stage 3
Control Spending and Build Margin
What you keep matters as much as what you earn. Budgets, small leaks, needs and wants, and saving.
Stage 4
Debt, Risk, and Preservation
Protect what you have built. Getting out of debt, risks that fit your means, and preparing for later years.
Stage 5
Wealth with Wisdom
What wealth is ultimately for. Trust, generosity, wise counsel, and turning knowledge into conduct.
Tools for the road, free for every traveler
Knowing a principle is not enough. These free tools help you put each lesson to work with your own numbers.
Wealth Wisdom Calculators
Twelve calculators, each tied to a lesson in the book. Weigh a job offer, count a purchase in hours of your life, build a debt payoff plan, set up your savings, or picture your later years. Your numbers stay in your own browser. Nobody else sees them.
Your Credencial
The pilgrim’s record for your journey. Twenty-eight stamp spaces, one for each lesson, with a place to write the date. Print it at home, at church, or in your classroom.
A few calculators to try first
Two books for one journey
Wealth Wisdom
Timeless Principles for Work, Money, and a Life Well Lived
Each of the twenty-eight chapters opens with a true story from the old books. John Jacob Astor leaves home with everything he owns in a red handkerchief. Benjamin Franklin studies through his lunch hour. P. T. Barnum eats cold dinners until his debt is paid. A little girl in Philadelphia gives fifty-seven cents that help build a church, a university, and a hospital. Each chapter draws out the principle behind the story, shows what Scripture says about it, and closes with practical steps you can take this week.
Ebook: $4.99
Paperback: $14.95
Wealth Wisdom
The Companion Workbook
The other half of the journey. Each lesson has two facing pages. On the left, you reflect: the principle in one sentence, a key verse, and three questions to answer in writing. On the right, you put it to work: a budget, a debt list, a savings plan, a risk check. Then you choose one step, date it, and sign your name to it. Thirty days later, you come back and write what happened.
Workbook (Paperback): $9.99
Read the book for the stories. Work the workbook for the change.
For every traveler from sixteen to seventy
Everyone starts somewhere. The road is the same; you simply join it where you are.
Good, hardworking people were never taught how money works. It is not too early, and it is not too late, to learn.
About Pastor Tex
Your guide on the road
Ray “Tex” Lang, known to many as Pastor Tex, is a retired Christian minister who spent eighteen years in ministry. Over those years he sat across the table from young couples, working families, and retirees, and heard the same story again and again: good, hardworking people who had never been taught how money works.
He knows that story firsthand. Like most of his generation, Tex learned to work hard but was never taught what to do with his wages, and that cost him more than once. Wealth Wisdom is the book he wishes someone had handed him as a young man.
At eighty, Tex is still learning and still teaching. He lives in Austin, Texas.
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“Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom:
and with all thy getting get understanding.”
Proverbs 4:7