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Today we are talking about emotionally healthy marriages, Jimmy.

That's right. We're talking about the three challenges of change to have an emotionally healthy marriage.

Now the teaching is coming up here in just a minute and this teaching is going to

help you really to understand how to break through to have a better marriage

emotionally and spiritually, how to resolve some problems. You know, you get in bad habits, you start doing things in your marriage.

And part of the problem, Karen, and this is the first challenge of change is the word of

God offends our natural minds.

Our natural minds can accept it. You and I went to church one

Sunday morning and when we lived in Canyon, Texas, we were 20 years old or so and we went to this little church by a college and the pastor was preaching on giving.

And I made $600 a month, we were broke, I think you're either pregnant or children was a little baby.

He was preaching on tithing and giving.

Well, I was shocked, offended, and disgusted through the entire message. And we went home that day and I the whole time he was preaching I just thought I

would never ever ever come back to this stinking place and so we went home that was that well that afternoon you said

told me that you liked his message and you wanted to give and that so you gave it was

$40 but to us it was we should have been four million. But that has changed that has that act has transformed our family

generationally. There is no way to calculate over the last 47 years how giving has

dramatically changed our lives and our family. The point being it began by my mind

being offended.

Well, as a marriage counselor,

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