Managing Your Finances Together, Part 1
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 3 March 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
One of the biggest sources of conflict in marriage revolves around money. It’s really hard to get on the same page, especially when one person’s a spender and the other’s a saver. In this program, Chip tackles the most universal habit we all need to learn: how to manage money. Don’t miss how you and your spouse can biblically handle your finances together.
How to biblically manage your finances together:
I. The command – All our words and our actions are to be in Jesus’ name. -Colossians 3:17
II. The second most accurate mirrors of our hearts and lives
- Our words -Luke 6:45
- Our money -Matthew 6:19-21
III. A brief overview of biblical finances*
- God owns it all. -Psalm 50:12; James 1:17
- We are stewards, managers, trustees. -Luke 16:1-15
- We will give an account of our stewardship. -Matthew 25:14-30
- Money is powerful and deceptive. -Mark 4:18-19
- Money is the “other god.” -Matthew 6:24
- Giving is God’s antidote to greed and the dangers of idol worship. -1 Timothy 6:17-19
- Debt is dangerous and to be avoided. -Romans 13:8; Proverbs 22:7
- We are to be accurately aware of our financial condition. -Proverbs 27:23
*The Truth About Money by Russ Crosson, CEO of Ron Blue, Inc.
IV. There are only 5 uses of money
- Giving
- Taxes
- Savings
- Debt
- Living
V. Financial freedom requires spending less than one’s income
VI. How to solve “money problems” in your marriage
- It must begin with… “It’s our problem, we will solve it with God’s help.”
- Assessment instead of blaming
- Alignment of values and execution
- Action
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| 0:00.0 | Today on Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. |
| 0:14.5 | One of the biggest problems and sources of our biggest arguments in our marriage was about our finances. |
| 0:21.7 | We just couldn't get on the same page when it came to money and budget and where it went. |
| 0:27.5 | Do you have some financial struggles with your mate and want some help? |
| 0:31.6 | Well, if that's you, stay with us. That's today. |
| 0:36.1 | Welcome to Living on the Edge. I'm Dave Drouye. And today, Chip Ingram tackles the number |
| 0:41.3 | one source of conflict and divorce in America, money. But here's what most couples miss. Financial |
| 0:47.7 | problems are rarely about the money itself. They're symptoms of deeper issues, different values, different priorities, different backgrounds. |
| 0:57.0 | In our series Choosing Love, Chip returns to Colossians Chapter 3 to show how biblical principles |
| 1:03.2 | transform not just how we handle conflict, but how we steward everything God has entrusted to us. |
| 1:09.9 | Here's Chip Ingram with today's teaching, |
| 1:12.2 | managing your finances together. If you'll pull out your note, skill number four is how to |
| 1:18.1 | biblically manage your finances together. The number one source of conflict and divorce in |
| 1:24.2 | America is issues and problems around money. And really, it's the symptom, |
| 1:29.6 | as we learned. It's different values, different priorities, different styles. Almost every marriage |
| 1:34.7 | has a spender and a saver. Different family backgrounds. Your whole view of money, wealth, spending, |
| 1:41.9 | saving, investing, risk. |
| 1:50.9 | You grew up in a family, and it's in your thinking, it's in your nerves, and you just have preconceived ideas about those things. |
| 1:54.4 | And then some of you, because of circumstance or situations, entered your marriage with debt |
| 1:59.9 | or challenges, or have had huge hardships that |
| 2:03.2 | have created financial problems. |
| 2:04.9 | All I'm saying is all that does is this. |
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