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SpaceX has officially launched onto Wall Street. 

Last Friday, Elon Musk's rocket ship company SpaceX made its debut on the stock market. The stock market is like a giant online marketplace, except instead of buying groceries or clothes, everyday buyers are purchasing tiny pieces of companies (called shares). 

When a company does this for the first time, it's called "going public" or an “initial public offering” (IPO). Think of it like a pizza. Before, SpaceX was a pizza owned by a few people. Now, anybody can buy a slice… and millions of people did (555.6 million shares sold, to be exact). 

Companies usually decide to go public for the money. It’s a lot easier to sell a piece of your company to a million buyers for a small price than to ask one investor to write a check for hundreds of thousands. That money can be used to pay bills or fund future projects.

SpaceX’s fundraiser was out of this world. It sold shares for $135 each and raised $75 billion. That’s more money than most countries spend in a year… 

By the end of its first day on the stock market, one share of SpaceX soared to be worth $161. The company’s total value skyrocketed to more than $2.1 trillion, making it the sixth-largest company in America and the biggest IPO in recorded history. 

And speaking of making history, Elon Musk is officially the galaxy’s first trillionaire. 

SpaceX said it plans to use the money to create the rocket for NASA’s 2028 moon landing. It also plans to build AI datacenters in space and a city on Mars.

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CHRISTIAN PERSPECTIVE
Massive wealth gains could be here today and gone tomorrow. Don’t let money determine your attitude, win your heart’s affection, or keep you from sharing the good news of the gospel.

“No one can serve two masters, since either he will hate one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.” 
Matthew 6:24 (CSB) (read full passage)

What gospel lesson can be taught through this story?
Money is a powerful thing. There’s very little Elon Musk can't make happen because of his enormous wealth. And yet, no one can buy their way out of the curse, or death, or the uncertainty of every day as a human being: “time and chance happen to them all” (Ecclesiastes 9:11). 

The good news of the gospel is that the ultimate assurance, security, and power come from joining Jesus's covenant family. At the cross of Jesus, we are all invited to come with what we do not have and buy what we do not deserve.

What response to this story do I want to model for my children?
As parents, our posture toward money speaks volumes about our faith. If we see our wealth and possessions primarily as what we have earned and own, we are bound to compare ourselves to those with more and enter a cycle of ingratitude and discontentment. 

But if we see all that we have as given by God (Matthew 6:25-30) and owned by Him (Psalm 24:1), we are free to live in both gratitude and generosity. Showing your children the hard-won work of countercultural contentment (Philippians 4:11-12) and intentional generosity will chart a path away from money’s tangles and toward the Kingdom’s upside-down joys.

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Family Life’s Bible studies are built to help couples grow spiritually in community. Whether you’re a ministry leader planning a church event this fall or a spouse simply looking for a clear place to start, studies like Art of Marriage and Art of Parenting give you a Scripture-rooted path—with video and workbook materials, so you’re not piecing it together on your own.

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Persecuted Christians have so much to teach our kids (and us) about what it means to be bold witnesses in a world that opposes faith in Christ.  

The Voice of the Martyr’s Learn, Grow and Go! curriculum brings these stories to life for kids. Through lessons, activities, and prayers, children learn biblical truths and what it means to follow Jesus when it could cost you everything. 

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