Best of Podcast: How to Support a Friend Going Through Divorce
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2019
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Do you have a friend that is going through a divorce? Unfortunately, when looking at the statistics - we all do! We want to provide some gospel-centered wisdom for how to deal with divorce. Divorce is hard. And as a Christian, it's hard to know how to approach divorce when our friends go through it. In this episode Dr. Kim and Christina share practical advice and real stories about how to support a friend going through divorce.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Awesome Marriage Podcast, a place for honest conversations about marriage and practical advice on how to have a God-honoring awesome marriage. |
| 0:09.6 | I am your podcast producer and co-host Christina Dodson. |
| 0:12.8 | On the show will be your host, Dr. Kim Kimberling. |
| 0:15.5 | Dr. Kim is a marriage counselor and has been married for over 40 years. |
| 0:19.7 | His passion is to help you strengthen your most |
| 0:22.3 | intimate relationship. Welcome to this awesome marriage instant classic podcast. This is a podcast |
| 0:29.0 | that aired last year that we wanted to highlight again because we know so many of you are walking |
| 0:34.0 | alongside friends who are getting divorced. Divorce is hard, and as a Christian, |
| 0:38.7 | it's hard to know how to approach divorce when our friends go through it. In this episode, |
| 0:43.3 | Christina and I share practical advice and real stories about how to support a friend going through |
| 0:48.1 | divorce. Please enjoy this Awesome Marriage Instant, classic podcast. This month at Awesome Marriage, we have been talking about the hard topic of divorce. |
| 0:57.0 | Here at Awesome Marriage, we want every marriage to work and be what God wants it to be. |
| 1:02.0 | And we believe that God can do that, that God can restore any marriage. |
| 1:05.4 | We've seen to happen hundreds and hundreds of time, taking situations that are by far the |
| 1:10.0 | worst, and yet restoring them |
| 1:11.7 | and rebuilding their marriage better than new. But we do recognize that we live in a broken world, |
| 1:16.4 | and so divorce does happen. So with this series, we are just trying to provide some gospel |
| 1:20.9 | truth to those that find themselves divorce. Specifically today, we're going to be talking about |
| 1:25.1 | how to support a friend going through divorce. |
| 1:33.0 | So just looking at the statistics, looking at the world we live in, everyone is this friend, right? |
| 1:37.1 | We all know someone going through a divorce or someone who has been divorced. |
| 1:45.7 | So Dr. Kim, how do we respond to a friend who is going through a divorce if we don't agree with a divorce. I feel like this is the most common thing that we deal with in our churches today when it comes to our divorce friends. |
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