Is God Really Gentle and Lowly?
FamilyLife Today®
FamilyLife Network
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2021
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Where is God in our families' lowest moments? Bestselling author Dane Ortlund paints an image of a God in the mess with us at rock-bottom—who's advocating and compassionate, gentle and lowly.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, here you go. I'm going to give you five seconds. You got to give me three words that describe the heart of Jesus. Go. |
| 0:06.0 | Perfect. |
| 0:07.0 | Five seconds done. |
| 0:08.0 | Redeemer Grace. |
| 0:09.0 | Perfect Redeemer Grace. |
| 0:11.0 | I guess that's not the heart. I'm just describing Jesus. |
| 0:14.0 | Yeah, but that's your heart as you think about Jesus. You know, it's really interesting. |
| 0:18.0 | It's a lot of us don't know this. Jesus actually described his heart with two words that we're going to talk about today. |
| 0:30.0 | Welcome to Family Life today, where we want to help you pursue the relationships that matter most. I'm Ann Wilson. |
| 0:41.0 | And I'm Dave Wilson and you can find us at familylifetoday.com or on our Family Life app. |
| 0:47.0 | This is Family Life today. |
| 1:01.0 | Jesus actually described his heart with two words that we're going to talk about today. |
| 1:06.0 | But before we get there, we got to talk about something else that's critically important for Family Life right now as we're rolling into December. |
| 1:13.0 | This is our December match. |
| 1:15.0 | And this is important. |
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| 1:26.0 | We've got your prayers and we love that. But we also are funded by you deciding God's leading you to give a gift financially to Family Life and that's what makes this all happen. |
| 1:35.0 | And so we're really depending on you, especially this Christmas season and asking you, would you consider giving us a gift because we are changing families, legacies, marriages and really parenting even. |
| 1:49.0 | And that gift, which is amazing is double because we've had some generous donors give up to $1.5 million. |
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| 2:00.0 | And so whatever you give is doubled today. |
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