Being a Godly Husband
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2020
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
As a husband, it's critically important to lead your wife and children toward God. But the big question is, how? Greg and John give advice for leading your family spiritually, and Erin talks about how she's learned to encourage her husband in his role. Featuring Pastor Craig Groeschel.
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| 0:00.0 | Alyssa suffered through 11 years of her husband's addiction and she feared the worst. |
| 0:06.5 | After we had called Focus on the Family, that was really the journey where we started to see God moving and working. |
| 0:16.4 | I know that focused on the family was just an answered prayer. |
| 0:19.8 | Elissa's marriage was transformed so much so that she began sharing our resources with many other |
| 0:26.0 | hurting couples. |
| 0:27.0 | Focus on the family was really the first resource outside of our church that was truth, that was biblically grounded in truth that we kind of |
| 0:37.8 | were like this is something we can get behind. I'm Jim Daly working together |
| 0:42.4 | this season we can give families hope please consider a generous |
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| 0:57.0 | Thank you for downloading the Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast. You can find more |
| 1:06.3 | relationship insights at focus on the family dot com slash marriage podcast. |
| 1:12.0 | You know scripture tells us as men to lead our family spiritually and you might have kids or not. |
| 1:19.0 | Either way, you're supposed to be the leader somehow, spiritually in the home. |
| 1:23.3 | I'm John Fuller along with Greg Smalley and his wife Aaron Smalley. |
| 1:28.0 | They run the focus on the family marriage department here and Greg this is a tough one because |
| 1:32.3 | like I didn't grow up knowing what that means to be a spiritual leader. |
| 1:36.0 | And then there's all this stuff that we as a Christian community think it should look like. |
| 1:42.0 | Did you run into anything in terms of difficulties once you |
| 1:46.0 | and Aaron married and you became the spiritual leader of the of the Smalley family? |
| 1:50.7 | Oh very much so because my father was a famous speaker and author and when I observed him I just saw this spiritual giant and I didn't realize how much that impacted me from a confident standpoint. |
| 2:05.0 | At some level I just thought there is no way I could ever measure up to this spiritual giant. |
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