Are Finances a Reason for Divorce?

Is severe, unrepentant financial adultery grounds for divorce? Pastor Heath Lambert tackles this question on Marked by Grace. If you or someone you love is walking through the pain of financial betrayal in marriage, this episode offers biblical clarity, honest pastoral compassion, and real hope for how to find peace when the pain feels unsolvable.

00:28 Welcome to the new season and new set

2:40 Overview of Christian views on biblical grounds for divorce

3:00 View one: no biblical grounds for divorce exist

3:46 View two: sexual immorality as grounds for divorce, Matthew 19:9

5:16 Desertion and abandonment as grounds for divorce, 1 Corinthians 7:15

6:18 Why financial mistreatment does not qualify as biblical desertion

8:43 Living by Scripture rather than feelings in a painful marriage

9:37 James 1:2-4 on counting trials as joy and finding steadfastness