House or Home - Parenting Edition - Finding Hope for Single Parent and Blended Families, Part 2
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 3 May 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Blended families - if you’re in one, you know how hard “blending” can be. Join Chip as he shares, from first hand experience, some of the pitfalls to avoid, how to hang in when you feel like you may have made a mistake, and the great joy that can come as the reward for your faithfulness and perseverance.
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.
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| 0:00.0 | Are you part of a blended family? |
| 0:03.0 | Well, if you are, you know how difficult it is for two families to come together |
| 0:08.0 | with kids from different backgrounds and different biological parents. |
| 0:12.0 | I want you to know that I understand that. I'm a part of |
| 0:15.4 | a blended family and it's been difficult, but here's the hope. It's also been great and I want |
| 0:21.7 | to share with you God's plan for blended families. |
| 0:25.0 | Welcome to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chipping Group. |
| 0:30.0 | We are a discipleship driven ministry on a mission to encourage Christians everywhere to live like Christians. |
| 0:37.0 | In just a minute we'll wrap up our series House Our Home, Parenting Edition. |
| 0:41.0 | Today, Chip will continue encouraging blended families and single |
| 0:44.8 | parents by passing along some much needed advice and counsel for those struggling moms and dads. |
| 0:51.1 | Also let me encourage you to stick around after the teaching as Chip shares some deeper |
| 0:55.4 | application for us to consider. |
| 0:57.0 | Okay, go on your Bible to the Book of Ruth for the second half of Chip's talk, finding hope |
| 1:02.1 | for single parent and Blended Families. |
| 1:05.0 | Well, when you marry someone who is a single parent, you become a blended family. |
| 1:12.0 | And Teresa will tell you, it took me a long time to pray through |
| 1:17.0 | whether this is the right thing for me |
| 1:19.0 | because I was scared to death, |
| 1:21.0 | and I would just say a word to maybe ladies at this point as I got to |
| 1:25.6 | know Teresa and I had all the flashing warning signs of when I met her I thought |
| 1:31.1 | oh I would like to get to know her and then she came over to I was a basketball coach at the time and we did a what we called a rally in the living room off of did a campus ministry and she came with these two little boys you know in the feet in |
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