Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook
Budgeting for a Healthy Church
Jamie Dunlop · 2022
🎙 Narrated by Tim Denbo and John Behrens (with an introduction read by Tim Challies)
74/100
👍 Worth It
This one flips the script on church budgets, treating every line item as a statement of what a congregation actually values rather than pure accounting. It's a narrow audience book (built for pastors and elders, not casual readers) but genuinely thoughtful, grounded in scripture, and comes with real worksheets you can use. The two-narrator delivery plus a short intro from Tim Challies is clean, straightforward listening that suits the material well.
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🎙 Narration: good Two male narrators plus a brief author-approved intro from Tim Challies; clean, standard expository delivery with no dramatization needed.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety90
Substance / usefulness75
Craft & writing72
Originality68
Evidence & accuracy72
Hype vs delivers78
Age-fit85
Human-eye read75
Penny’s verdict74
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