“I Messed Up! Can My Story Be Redeemed?”
Focus on the Family Strengthening Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 6 November 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
It's easy to believe the lie that things won't get better. But, we serve a God who's in the business of redemption. Jim Turner sits down with Jim Daly to explain how God has healed his story, even after his first marriage failed. Also, Greg Smalley offers encouragement to couples who don't feel like persevering through a rough season.
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| 0:00.0 | God is at work and he's calling his people to rise in truth. Truth Rising is a powerful new documentary from Focus on the Family and the Colson Center. See how ordinary Christians choose courage in a culture that needs truth. Watch Truth Rising today and find out how you can become an agent of restoration and hope. |
| 0:24.1 | Visit truthrising.com today. That's truthrising.com. |
| 0:30.9 | If you've blown it, you might feel like things are so bad, they're never going to get better. |
| 0:40.2 | We're going to hear today from somebody who was in one of those places, but things did turn the |
| 0:45.0 | corner eventually for him. I'm John Fuller, offering some hope today in our episode, along with |
| 0:50.6 | Greg and Aaron Smalley. And, Aaron, in your counseling practice, I'm wondering about people |
| 0:55.5 | that you've seen who felt that very thing. They felt like it's all falling apart and it's never |
| 1:01.6 | going to get better. It's just a big black hole. I've dug for myself. I'm stuck. Yeah. And you think |
| 1:07.6 | about people that are coming in for marriage counseling, something isn't working. |
| 1:11.6 | They're not all in crisis and 100% disconnected. |
| 1:16.1 | There's some that are just wanting to strengthen and there's a specific issue. |
| 1:19.9 | But often they are feeling really hopeless. |
| 1:22.9 | And if not, both of them, one of them is. |
| 1:25.2 | And the amazing thing is coming in and beginning to peel the layers |
| 1:30.5 | back and explore what is really going on and then as the therapist I can also help breathe some |
| 1:37.9 | hope into the scenario and give honest feedback and so it's amazing to me from the first time a |
| 1:43.7 | couple comes in until the last |
| 1:45.5 | time they come in, the difference, the transformation that God does when two willing hearts are |
| 1:51.0 | willing to at least come in and try. Yeah. Well, we found that just personally. You know, |
| 1:55.3 | Dean and I, after 30 years of parenting, our marriage was toast in some respects. I mean, we were fine, but we were just stuck. And we felt like we're not going to be able to get out of this. At one point, I just resigned myself to, I guess, this is the way it is. As good as is it ever going to get it. We went to Hope Restored, and what an incredible thing happened during those four days. I love that. The Lord gave us tools that we still use five years later just to stay connected. |
| 2:22.0 | It's not like everything's perfect and stresses, oh my goodness, as we were talking off air. |
| 2:27.1 | Just this week. |
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