Changing Bad Money Habits
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
What do you do when it feels like you and your spouse can't agree about money? John and Erin will share how to be patient when you and your mate are struggling to find financial unity. Featuring Chuck and Ann Bentley.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Jim Daley here. If you like the focus on the family broadcast and haven't |
| 0:04.7 | grown tired of this voice just yet, you'll love my ReFocus podcast. On ReFocus I |
| 0:10.2 | take a deeper dive with a respected thinker on different aspects of culture. I |
| 0:14.4 | ask those hard questions that maybe they don't get that often and I don't |
| 0:18.8 | shy away from challenging topics to help you share God's grace, truth, and love |
| 0:23.6 | with others. So listen to ReFocus with Jim Daley on your favorite streaming app |
| 0:28.3 | today. |
| 0:36.1 | All right, so you're doing everything you can to save money, to not spend it, |
| 0:40.1 | to stay within the framework of the budget, but your spouse is getting in the |
| 0:45.5 | way. You can't make progress because he or she is just spending it. And you're |
| 0:49.8 | wondering, is he ever going to change? Or will she ever stop? Well, today |
| 0:54.8 | you're going to hear a really powerful story about a wife who trusted God about |
| 0:59.7 | her husband spending, even when it wasn't easy. I'm John Fuller along with Erin |
| 1:04.8 | Smolley and she and her husband Greg are in charge of our marriage team here at |
| 1:09.7 | focus on the family. And last time on this podcast we heard from Chuck and Ann |
| 1:14.8 | Bentley, they struggled for two decades with financial conflict in their |
| 1:20.0 | marriage. And Ann was at a Bible study and a woman encouraged her to start |
| 1:26.2 | praying for her husband Chuck. And here's more of their story with Jim Daley. |
| 1:31.4 | Let me ask you in that regard. That's really interesting because I think most |
| 1:34.8 | men would have that since that equation. How did that revelation then come to |
| 1:41.4 | you that that was not working? Your formula was not her heart's ache. |
| 1:46.8 | I'll tell you a story Jim that really made it so apparent to me. We went out |
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