Best of 2022: Encouraging Moms to Laugh
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Pastor Ted Cunningham brings hilarious encouragement to moms by urging them to stop stressing out over non-essential decisions, and start actively seeking out a more lighthearted approach to life.
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| 0:00.0 | In those early years, when I came to know the Lord, he and his family were so |
| 0:07.3 | against it that they actually advised him to divorce me. |
| 0:12.5 | Joyce spent many lonely years trying to trust God and love her husband well. |
| 0:17.2 | Thankfully, she found the support and encouragement she needed. |
| 0:21.0 | I think that God just really used to focus on the family and your guys' ministry to |
| 0:26.0 | grow me and prepare me and guide my heart to live out in front of my husband what it means to follow Christ. |
| 0:35.8 | In the best news of all is that Joyce Husband also became a follower of Jesus. |
| 0:40.8 | I'm Jim Daley. When we work together, we can strengthen more marriages like Joyce and give |
| 0:46.2 | families hope. Please call 800 the letter A in the word family or donate at focusonthefamily.com |
| 0:53.0 | slash hope and your gift will be doubled. |
| 1:03.8 | Your children are not your source of life. Don't find your strength from them. |
| 1:09.3 | Do I go know my kids film me up? Yeah, give it a while. You will find out nothing sucks the life out of you faster. |
| 1:16.0 | Then a child. Pastor Ted Cunningham has some hope and encouragement somewhere in there for busy |
| 1:23.1 | parents on this best of 2022 edition of Focus on the Family. Thanks for joining us. Your host is |
| 1:29.0 | focus president Jim Daley. Well, John, we all love our kids of course, but if we expect them to be |
| 1:34.2 | our source of joy and our reason for living, we're bound to be disappointed, right? Only God |
| 1:40.1 | can truly fill our hearts that way. And that's the message Ted Cunningham will share today. |
| 1:44.7 | And this is one of our top programs of the year. In fact, it had over 200,000 views on the YouTube |
| 1:50.9 | channel. Ted is going to encourage you to de-stress with laughter and I know you're going to get a |
| 1:57.0 | kick out of this presentation. It's based on his book, A Love That Lapse, published by Focuson |
| 2:02.0 | the Family. Right. And you can get a copy from us of course and the proceeds go right back in |
| 2:06.6 | the ministry. Well, the link to the book A Love That Lapse in the show notes. Ted is really a |
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