Blended Couples and Kids
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
We all need God's grace for our past mistakes. But what does that look like if you've gotten remarried? John, Greg, and Erin provide hope to those in a blended marriage. Then, Jim Daly and Dr. Ron Deal explain the need for spouses to prioritize their marriage, even when kids are involved.
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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 |
| 0:47.0 | donation today and your gift will be doubled our number is 800 a family or visit focus on the family.com slash gift. Well in marriage there are unfortunately things that don't work out and so many families right now are blended. |
| 1:13.4 | There are two families that have come together |
| 1:15.6 | and there are a lot of dynamics to talk about. |
| 1:18.1 | So here we are talking about it today. |
| 1:20.4 | I'm John Fuller along with Greg and Aaron Smalley who lead the marriage department here at focus and |
| 1:25.4 | Greg we embrace all that God designed marriage to be |
| 1:30.0 | But there's also room for grace when it doesn't quite work out. |
| 1:35.0 | What do you say to that? |
| 1:36.4 | Well, I love the word, so let's just think about some of the words that God uses |
| 1:42.0 | throughout the scriptures, grace. of the This is what God is constantly trying to teach us throughout the New Testament that I sent my son who really mattered to me so that you would have forgiveness so that there's restoration in God does not qualify and say but but that doesn't apply for your blended family that's only for the rest of us and I think that's a part of how Satan works is that he wants |
| 2:16.0 | blended families to believe that those truths don't apply to them. God promises blessings, treasures when we go through hard times and go through |
| 2:26.4 | those trials, James 1, 2 through 4, count at all joy. My brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds for you know that the |
| 2:34.0 | testing of your face produces and then it goes through all these treasures that are |
| 2:39.8 | true for all of us and a part of keeping a blended family strong is recognizing receiving |
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