Hi, I'm Jimmy Evans, co-host of the Marriage Today podcast.

Today we have a great teaching for you that I pray grows your marriage and blesses you

as you seek to center your marriage on Christ.

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God bless you.

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 college and the pastor was preaching

on giving and I first, I made $600 a month.

We were broke.

I think you're either pregnant or she 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 the whole time he was preaching on his thought, I would

never 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 it was, it should have been $4 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

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