Grasping the Power of Forgiveness, Part 2
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2020
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
You might fear being open up with your spouse about past regrets. But, honesty can be the door that opens your marriage up to greater intimacy. Greg and John offer helpful ideas for discussing your past mistakes in a healthy way. Receive the book Desperate Forgiveness with your gift of any amount.
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| 0:00.0 | The Stara's first pregnancy was terminated when she was 15 years old. |
| 0:06.0 | She didn't understand what was happening. |
| 0:08.0 | After three more abortions, she finally learned the truth. |
| 0:12.0 | I heard it from focus on the family and they were talking about pro-life being a baby, a human being in your stomach. |
| 0:21.0 | And I was like, wow, that's pro life. |
| 0:24.7 | Today, Dostara has six children who represent God's love and forgiveness in her life. |
| 0:31.0 | And today, Dostara is a pro-life advocate. |
| 0:34.3 | So it's focus on the family has definitely sharpened me and I'm looking forward to |
| 0:38.8 | continuing to being sharpening. I'm not embarrassed anymore about the choices that I made. I'm wanting to help. |
| 0:47.0 | I'm Jim Daly. Working together we can rescue pre-born babies and their moms giving these families hope. Donate at |
| 0:55.0 | Focus on the Family.com slash gift and your gift will be doubled. |
| 1:00.0 | Thank you for downloading the Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast. You can find more |
| 1:06.3 | relationship insights at focus on the family dot com slash marriage podcast. |
| 1:12.1 | Pretty much everyone brings some slash marriage. |
| 1:13.0 | pretty much everyone brings some baggage into the marriage. |
| 1:17.2 | It might be that you have some deep regrets you're afraid to admit or you just have some bad |
| 1:21.9 | habits. If you can work through those issues though, you |
| 1:24.8 | can experience deeper intimacy as a couple. I'm John Fuller along with Greg Smalley and he's |
| 1:31.0 | in charge of our marriage department here at Focus. |
| 1:33.7 | Greg, it's really important for a couple early on to be honest about the past, |
| 1:39.1 | but it's not always easy to be honest. |
| 1:41.6 | It's not easy at all, but yet it's so important. John I remember when |
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