Encouraging Mom to Laugh

Focus on the Family with Jim Daly

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Relationships, Society & Culture, Parenting

4.8 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Pastor Ted Cunningham brings hilarious encouragement to moms by urging them to stop stressing out over non-essential decisions, and start actively seeking out a more lighthearted approach to life.

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0:00.0	It's hard to trust a lot of entertainment these days, but you can always trust Adventures
0:05.1	and Odyssey.
0:06.0	Every episode is packed with biblical truth your kids will understand and hang on to.
0:10.4	Join the Adventures and Odyssey Club today at Adventures and Odyssey.com.
0:15.0	This program is sponsored by Focus on the Family, helping families thrive in Christ for more
0:20.3	than 40 years.
0:22.2	Your children are not your source of life. Don't find your strength from them.
0:27.5	You're like, oh, no, my kids fill me up. Yeah, give it a while. You'll find out nothing sucks the life out of you faster than a child.
0:37.4	Pastor Ted Cunningham has some hope, encouragement, and laughter for busy parents today.
0:42.5	On Focus on the Family with your host, Jim Daly.
0:45.1	Thanks for joining us.
0:45.9	I'm John Fuller.
0:46.7	Well, John, we all love our kids, right?
0:49.0	But if we expect them to be our source of joy and our reason for living. We're bound to be disappointed.
0:56.2	Only God can truly fill our hearts that way, and that's the message Ted Cunningham wants to
1:01.4	share with you today, especially if you're getting stressed out by all the details involved
1:06.3	in parenting a child. Ted is going to encourage you to de-stress with laughter, and I know you'll get a
1:14.1	kick out of his presentation. It's based on his book, A Love That Laughs, published by Focus on the
1:19.7	Family. Right, and you can get a copy of that book from us. The proceeds go right back into the
1:23.9	ministry when you do. Look for a love that laughs at focus on the family.com
1:28.4	slash broadcast. Well, Ted really is a favorite on this broadcast. He's so entertaining,
1:33.6	and he's a comedian at heart. You can hear that. He's also a pastor at heart. He's the lead pastor
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