House or Home - Parenting Edition - Finding Hope for Single Parent and Blended Families, Part 1
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 2 May 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Is there hope for single parents and blended families to experience true joy and peace - to find rest and strength in the midst of the journey? In this session, Chip is joined by his wife Theresa to share her story of single parenthood and how God carried her through that difficult time in her life. Whether you’re a single parent, a blended family, or just someone looking for a little encouragement, you’ll want to listen to this hope-filled message.
Main Points
A story of hope and restoration - Ruth 1-4
Single parenting - principles and practice
- Make your relationship with Christ your #1 priority.
- Get connected with a strong, godly, same sex group for support and accountability.
- Accept this "season" of your life and set realistic expectations.
- Remember God can "make-up" for what you can't give your kids.
- Refuse to become a victim, a martyr, or a super parent.
- Don't compromise your spiritual and moral standards to "provide a father/mother" for your children.
Blended families - principles and practice
- Count the cost thoroughly.
- Get pre-marital counseling from a mutually trusted, biblical, and wise resource.
- Make your mate your new, unequivocal #1 relationship ahead of children.
- Develop a weekly communication tool and mechanism to wrestle family conflicts, schedules, and miscommunication to the ground in a nonthreateneing and safe environment.
- Make the spiritual development of your marriage and family the utmost priority; only God and supernatural love can make this work - you don't have that apart from vital union with Christ in the context of a strong, loving, biblical community.
- Remember it will take time, it will be harder than you thought, and it can be a glorious testimony of God's restoration and redemption - so don't quit, don't withdraw, don't bail out, and know that God will bring results. - James 1:2-4; Hebrews 10:36
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About Chip Ingram
Chip Ingram’s passion is helping Christians really live like Christians. As a pastor, author, and teacher for more than three decades, Chip has helped believers around the world move from spiritual spectators to healthy, authentic disciples of Jesus by living out God’s truth in their lives and relationships in transformational ways.
About Living on the Edge
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| 0:00.0 | Someone has rightly said the most difficult job on the face of the earth is to be a single parent. |
| 0:08.0 | Well, believe me, I know about that one up close. |
| 0:11.0 | If you're a single parent or a part of a blended family |
| 0:15.1 | you cannot afford to miss today. We're going to talk about hope for single |
| 0:19.7 | parents and some real help for blended families. |
| 0:22.6 | Stay with me. |
| 0:23.6 | Thanks for joining us for this edition |
| 0:28.6 | of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. |
| 0:31.3 | Chips Our Bible Teacher for this international teaching and discipleship ministry focused |
| 0:36.0 | on helping Christians live like Christians. |
| 0:39.0 | We're nearing the end of our series House or Home, Parenting Edition, and for these last two programs, Chip |
| 0:44.7 | focuses on the specific issues facing single parents and blended families. |
| 0:49.2 | Chip actually has a lot of real-world experience in these areas that will tell us more about as he |
| 0:54.6 | gets started. But first, we hope you've learned a lot from this parenting series. |
| 0:58.8 | And to help other moms and dads experience that same encouragement and guidance. |
| 1:03.6 | Take a minute after this message and share these programs with them. |
| 1:07.1 | You can do that through the Chippinggram map |
| 1:09.2 | or by sending them the free MP3s you'll find at Living on the Edge.org. |
| 1:15.0 | Well, if you have a Bible, go to the Book of Ruth as we join Chip now with today's talk. |
| 1:21.0 | As we start our time together, I want to share a little story. Over the years, I've spoken |
| 1:27.2 | on parenting and every time I speak on parenting, I mean literally scores of people will come up and say things |
| 1:32.4 | like, do you have |
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