God is Doing a New Thing
Focus on Parenting Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2024
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
If you had a difficult upbringing, you can still be a great mom or dad. Heidi St. John shares with Jim Daly about the moment she learned she didn't have to repeat her father's mistakes. Also Danny talks with John about how he's seen people overcome a challenging background, and learn to be very good parents.
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| 0:00.0 | For more than 25 years, Monica suffered from an addiction to drugs and alcohol, |
| 0:06.1 | fueled in part by her painful and shameful past. |
| 0:10.3 | The thought would come to my mind that I had had these abortions. |
| 0:15.0 | I would not want to think about it because the pain was just too real. |
| 0:19.9 | Thankfully, God healed Monica's heart, and today, she supports focus on the family's |
| 0:25.2 | pro-life ministry. |
| 0:26.7 | I want to support a ministry that can help change the trajectory of people's life that are |
| 0:32.7 | contemplating abortion. |
| 0:34.6 | I can't go back in time and change my life and change my decisions, but I can support a |
| 0:40.9 | ministry that can help positively change someone else's. I'm Jim Daly. Let's save babies and give |
| 0:48.1 | families hope today. Donate and your gift will be doubled. Call 800A family or visit focus on the family.com |
| 0:56.6 | slash gift. |
| 1:02.5 | I have a dear friend who grew up in another culture and a lot of family dysfunction. |
| 1:08.1 | There was alcoholism and there was abuse and there was just a lot of |
| 1:12.8 | distance and difficulty in his life. But by God's grace, he is a warm, wonderfully well-adjusted |
| 1:20.1 | person who's raised a family and is a dear, dear friend. Your childhood doesn't have to define |
| 1:26.6 | who you are as an adult and it doesn't have to define who you are as an adult, and it doesn't |
| 1:28.8 | have to shape your parenting. I'm John Fuller, along with Vice President of Parenting here at the |
| 1:33.8 | ministry, Dr. Danny Werta. We're going to hear a clip now. Focus President Jim Daly spoke with |
| 1:38.7 | Heidi St. John, who came from a very difficult broken home. She's now got seven kids. |
| 1:45.3 | Hey, Romans 12 tells us to not be conformed to this world. |
| 1:49.2 | It's a great scripture referenced frequently. |
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