From Broken to Beautiful: God Redeems it All
The Heidi St. John Podcast
Heidi St. John
4.8 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2023
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Families are messy, aren’t they? One of the reasons I love the bible so much is that we get to see the messy side of all the characters …. Including bad parenting. God included these accounts so that we can learn lessons from these real people—lessons about the use of trickery, favoritism in families, deciding to run ahead of God, misunderstanding what God is doing, parental manipulation and more. We can take so many good things away from the parenting mistakes that were made by Abraham, Isaac and Jacob! God redeems our messes when we offer them to Him. SHOW NOTES
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| 0:00.0 | Families are messy, aren't they? And one of the reasons I love the Bible so much is that we get |
| 0:04.2 | to see the messy side of all the characters in the Bible, including their bad parenting moments. |
| 0:09.8 | God includes these stories of real life people so that we can learn lessons from them, |
| 0:14.0 | lessons about the use of trickery, the use of favoritism in families, |
| 0:17.9 | what happens when we decide to run ahead of God? What happens when we take our lives in our own |
| 0:23.0 | hands and we get our priorities all out of whack? What happens when we manipulate the situation |
| 0:28.3 | even in marriage we can do this and absolutely we can do it with our kids. And if you are |
| 0:33.2 | interested in God's heart for your families, particularly as it relates to the struggle of |
| 0:37.6 | favoritism within families, I want you guys to be encouraged today because we can take a lot |
| 0:42.0 | of wisdom from the rivalry of Esau and Jacob and looking back into the lives of some of the |
| 0:48.0 | characters in the Bible that we know so much about. Stick around, I think you're going to be encouraged. |
| 0:58.6 | Well, welcome to the podcast today. I'm so glad you guys have joined me. I want to |
| 1:06.2 | encourage you if you haven't done it already. We are really reading those reviews that you're |
| 1:10.8 | leaving for us over at iTunes and we really appreciate your willingness to jump in and leave |
| 1:15.4 | reviews and share this show with your friends. As you guys can see if you're watching this on rumble |
| 1:20.7 | or on YouTube, we're still in the process of transition here at the Home School Resource Center. |
| 1:25.8 | And we're building a new studio which is going to be used by students as well. |
| 1:29.9 | So a lot is going into that. And so in the meantime, we're just taking it easy over here and I'm |
| 1:34.5 | moving my studio from room to room. And I can't wait for you guys to see what God is doing. |
| 1:40.3 | Also, I want to invite you, if you're in the Greater Portland Vancouver metropolitan area on the |
| 1:44.6 | 6th of September at 6 o'clock in the evening, we are going to be doing a dedication for this building |
| 1:51.3 | that the Lord has so beautifully provided. And we're excited to see you guys. So come on out for |
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