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While generosity may be the antidote for the dizzying effects of wealth, your appetite for more may function as an antidote against God-honoring generosity. Your appetite for more stuff, status, and security has the potential to quash your efforts to be generous. And that's a problem.

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Andy Stanley
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 16
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Atlanta
Georgia
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