How the Gospel Heals Parental Wounds
Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 29 July 2021
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
In the Bible, God is compared to a loving father. But, if a person didn't have a good father in the home, he or she might turn away from the Lord. John and Danny offer hope to parents who have a child who's far from God.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for downloading the Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast. You can find more helpful advice at |
| 0:06.8 | Focus on the Family.com. |
| 0:11.0 | There is a scripture in the Old Testament book of Psalms chapter 103 that says as a |
| 0:16.4 | father shows compassion to his children so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him. It's a beautiful declaration of God's |
| 0:26.0 | heart. It might be difficult though to accept that when you didn't have a father who was |
| 0:31.5 | there for you that had a heart for you. If that's you stay |
| 0:35.3 | tuned we have some encouragement for you. I'm John Fuller along with Dr. Danny |
| 0:39.3 | Werta he's in charge of the focus on the family parenting and youth department and |
| 0:43.7 | we're going to return now to a conversation that Jim Daly and I had with Elizabeth Oates |
| 0:49.2 | and last time she shared about feeling abandoned by her father after her parents divorced and |
| 0:55.4 | she has more of her testimony as she continues. |
| 0:59.3 | Another story in your book is so filled with heart-wrenching stories but the nutcracker story |
| 1:06.2 | that you know you got a part in a play you were excited about it I can feel that same thing |
| 1:12.0 | something positive in your life as little as that you know most |
| 1:16.5 | people if they're coming from relatively healthy homes they think that's no big deal |
| 1:20.8 | but what happened yeah so I was in the third grade and the |
| 1:26.1 | schools putting on a play and it was only for fourth and fifth graders but they |
| 1:29.7 | chose I think about you know eight to ten little third grade girls to be snowflakes in the |
| 1:35.3 | nutcracker and I was dying to be on stage and dying to be the center of |
| 1:39.9 | attention and I got chosen to be one of these little snowflakes and just weeks before, you know, I remember we were evicted from our apartment, which moving around was nothing unusual. We moved around a lot and I think that is very |
| 1:54.7 | epidemic of children raised in single homes or single parent homes. Yeah can be. Yeah and just the financial |
| 2:01.0 | instability that they experience. |
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