Managing Your Finances Together
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 3 March 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
One of the biggest sources of conflict in marriage revolves around money. In this message, Chip walks through how couples can biblically manage their finances and tackle debt issues in their marriage.
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 | This is the Chip Ingram Sermon podcast, brought to you by Living on the Edge. |
| 0:06.8 | In this podcast, you'll hear Chip's teaching unedited and from beginning to end. |
| 0:12.6 | Here's Chip Ingram with today's teaching, managing your finances together. |
| 0:17.4 | If you'll pull out your note, skill number four is how to biblically manage your finances together. |
| 0:23.8 | The number one source of conflict and divorce in America is issues and problems around money. |
| 0:30.7 | And really, it's the symptom as we learned. |
| 0:32.7 | It's different values, different priorities, different styles. |
| 0:36.4 | Almost every marriage has a sper and a saver. |
| 0:39.3 | Different family backgrounds. Your whole view of money, wealth, spending, saving, investing, risk. |
| 0:47.2 | You grew up in a family and it's in your thinking, it's in your nerves, and you just have |
| 0:53.4 | preconceived ideas about those |
| 0:55.9 | things. And then some of you, because of circumstance or situations, entered your marriage with |
| 1:02.0 | debt or challenges, or have had huge hardships that have created financial problems. All I'm saying |
| 1:08.2 | is all that does is this, it creates incredible pressure. |
| 1:12.2 | Just incredible pressure. And incredible pressure brings things to the surface where, |
| 1:19.1 | because we're human, we figure out primarily how to blame the other person. Okay, you still have |
| 1:25.3 | your passage. We're still in Clauseians 3, 12 through 17. So in context here, |
| 1:32.8 | it says, as those have been chosen of God, holy and beloved, put on a heart of compassion, |
| 1:37.3 | kindness, humility, patience, bearing with one another and forgiving each other, |
| 1:42.4 | whoever has a complaint against anyone, |
| 1:44.7 | just as the Lord forgave you, so also should you. |
| 1:47.9 | Beyond all these things, put on love, |
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