Best of 2024: Establishing Clear Boundaries in Your Life
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
4.8 • 4.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Driving is such a great illustration for life! We encounter people and circumstances that force us to make quick decisions all while trying to protect our family and ourselves. And we have to stay in the right lane to get to where we are headed. On this one-day Focus on the Family broadcast, pastor Kevin Thompson helps you learn how to navigate the roads of life—circumstances, situations relationships—by staying in your lane. By examining what belongs to us, what belongs to others, and what belongs to God, you’ll get a strong grasp on boundaries and how to apply them in your life.
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| 0:00.0 | As a young pastor, Ryan thought he was ready to get married, but soon after the wedding, he had a big problem. |
| 0:07.0 | When I'm doing counseling, I tell people oftentimes that I had the worst beginning six months of a marriage that I know of, |
| 0:13.0 | and so I'm a qualified counselor for them. |
| 0:17.0 | And what really began to give me a 180 in my marriage and understanding my role as a husband was just the |
| 0:24.1 | ministry of focus on the family. Now, Pastor Ryan points his congregation to all the resources we |
| 0:31.1 | provide for families because we're still helping them today. Focus on the family empowers me in my |
| 0:37.1 | marriage because I can understand |
| 0:39.2 | that other people have gone through the same thing that I'm going through and I'm not alone |
| 0:42.8 | in the struggles that I face and my wife and I can gain hope from the stories that are shared |
| 0:48.3 | on air. I'm Jim Daly. Help us give families hope today. Donate and your gift will be doubled at |
| 0:56.1 | Focus on thefamily.com slash gift. I think for so many of us, so often what we do is we deny |
| 1:04.6 | what's ours, we try to control what's theirs and we fight about what's God's. Instead of accepting God, you know what's best. I'm going to |
| 1:13.3 | lean into what you're doing in this moment. I'm going to trust you and I'm going to accept |
| 1:17.9 | what's taking place. That's Kevin Thompson here today on this Best of 2024 episode, a focus on the |
| 1:24.0 | family with Jim Daly. Kevin will be sharing with us the importance of setting |
| 1:27.7 | boundaries to reduce stress in relationships. Thanks for joining us. I'm John Fuller. |
| 1:33.5 | John, let me ask you, I think, a loaded question. Do you get frustrated driving? |
| 1:40.2 | Yes, I do all the time. I'm getting better, I think. But yeah, how about you? No, the same. I mean, driving is such a personality profile test. You know, it is funny. It's a great anecdotal kind of approach to life and how we drive and how that plays out in our personalities. And today, we're going to apply that to a great guest, Kevin Thompson. |
| 2:02.0 | We've had him here before, but he's written a wonderful book. Stay in your lane, worry less, |
| 2:06.2 | love more, and get things done. I think it's a good Christian application to our driving frustration. |
| 2:11.5 | So I'm looking forward to it. And I think there are practical applications to all of life, |
| 2:15.9 | beyond driving frustrations. Kevin is the |
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