Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks.

Where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.

I'm Tanya Wilmoth. If you were always generous, if you don't worry about

money, and if you don't have any struggles about how to use it, then you should turn

off this episode and listen to Taylor Swift's new album instead

But if you're like the rest of us, I hope you stick around for a few minutes as we unpack together more than just a few Bible verses

Taken out of context that leave us

feeling good or bad about ourselves and money and look instead at the story of generosity that

unfolds throughout the entire Bible. It's a story that shapes us and offers grace where we need it most.

I have really no grounds to stand on today, other than being on this journey with you.

So I'd love to humbly walk through this together.

We are by nature, not generous people.

Chances are mine was one of the first three words

in your developing vocabulary.

Chances are Mind is still one of the first things that comes to mind in our current

thought vocabularies. We do get better at taming it, but it's a struggle that sits with us.

And if sin causes us to live for ourselves, then money is part of this self-obsession.

We tend to think about it like this. What can I do with it? What do I want to do with it? How can I get more of it? And how can I make it work for me?

Now there is sometimes generosity woven into this

narrative but it's usually not the driving factor. But what if we flipped that

narrative upside down? What if we redefined the purpose of money? flipped that tells us about something called the Year of Jubilee.

When God used Moses to tell the Israelites how to live in the new land,

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