I came in and I'm, you know, at this point, just a couple weeks away from delivery

and just heard the words that I never thought I would hear, which were just, I'm sorry.

And just had a moment to acknowledge what he was telling me that there was no heartbeat and that our baby had died.

Susan was devastated, but we reminded her of God's unfailing love.

And so focus on the family really was monumentally instrumental in teaching me this truth and healing me.

And the resource of focus on the family was teaching me to grieve with hope.

I'm Jim Daly.

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Focus on the family.com slash family. In the New Testament book of 1st Peter chapter 3, we read

about wives as being a weaker vessel. And don't run away.

We're actually going to have that unpacked for us today. I'm John Fuller, along with Greg and Aaron

Smalley, and we're going to hear now from Jay and Laura LaFoon, who spoke with Focus President Jim Daly,

and they discuss the real meaning of that passage in First Peter.

Hey, one of the stickiest passages, you know, there's several, and the way culture is moving,

it makes it stickier about gender, about the roles that God has created, male and female were made in his image,

but First Peter 3-7, which refers to wives as the weaker vessel.

You kind of have a different perspective on that.

What is it?

Well, the actual Greek is talking about fine China.

In ancient times, they had two types of pottery.

They had big, thick, clunky pottery that they used every day.

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