When his wife became pregnant with their fourth child Greg panicked, but a focus on the family counselor put everything into perspective.

He said, the first thing you need to realize if kids are a blessing, or all of the

blessing, that their gifts from God, and the second thing you said was, kids value

relationships, not stuff. Greg and his wife found the encouragement they needed and today they have a happy thriving family of seven children.

We have been really influenced by the culture and by just the kind of overall negativity about kids and to hear from someone, you know,

just godly truth that kids are special, that they're wanted and that they're a blessing was huge to us.

I'm Jim Daly and we love kids.

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It's really hard to forgive someone else, especially in this culture.

It seems like forgiveness is perceived as a sign of weakness or even guilt.

Some people frankly would rather stay angry than forgive someone else.

I'm John Fuller along with Dr. Greg Smalley and Greg I am thinking about today's social media environment

everybody's upset everybody's mad everybody's a victim everybody's pointing

fingers there's not a lot of forgiveness on social media.

Oh, not at all.

Well, I mean, fighting is easy when you're staring at a screen.

So when it's impersonal, John, you and I are, what, about six feet apart from each other but we're face to face and I will treat you very very differently when we're face to face

So I'm probably going to be much more respectful. Hopefully we can have

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