Best of 2024: Loving the Spouse God Gave You (Part 1 of 2)
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
4.8 • 4.2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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In this best of 2024 broadcast, Dr. Bob Paul and Tara Lalonde share their marriage counseling expertise to help couples communicate in a healthy way and build a marriage that is emotionally safe for both people. They offer some of the powerful tools taught to couples at Hope Restored marriage intensives, including the reactive cycle and heart talk.
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| 0:00.0 | When his wife became pregnant with their fourth child, Greg panicked, but a focus on the family counselor put everything into perspective. |
| 0:09.6 | He said, the first thing you need to realize is kids are a blessing, or all of the blessings, that they're gifts from God. |
| 0:16.3 | And the second thing you said was kids value relationships, not stuff. |
| 0:20.5 | Greg and his wife found the encouragement they needed, and today they have a happy, |
| 0:24.6 | thriving family of seven children. |
| 0:27.6 | We have been really influenced by the culture and by just kind of overall negativity about |
| 0:34.1 | kids, and to hear from someone, you know, just godly truth that kids are special, |
| 0:42.0 | that they're wanted and that they're a blessing was huge to us. |
| 0:45.0 | I'm Jim Daly, and we love kids. Let's work together to give more families hope, like Greg's. |
| 0:51.4 | When you donate today, your gift will be doubled at focus on |
| 0:55.0 | the family.com slash gift. |
| 1:07.7 | We're forever changed and tremendously grateful for the tools given to us to change our stormy |
| 1:13.8 | relationship into a peaceful calm. |
| 1:16.4 | What a gift God has given us here in a safe environment with counselors and staff who are |
| 1:20.6 | totally walking in a close relationship with Christ. |
| 1:23.9 | Miracles happen. |
| 1:25.8 | Those were comments of someone whose marriage was transformed through hope restored. |
| 1:30.4 | Focus on the family's marriage intensives. |
| 1:33.1 | Marriage transformation is the topic of the show today. |
| 1:36.0 | This is Focus on the Family with Jim Daly, and I'm John Fuller. |
| 1:39.0 | John, this conversation is so important because marriage is the foundation of the family. |
| 1:43.4 | I think we're seeing that now |
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