Larry Fowler & Tim Kimmel: Get Serious about Grandparenting
FamilyLife Today®
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🗓️ 21 September 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Your potential impact on your grandkids can be monumental. Authors Larry Fowler and Tim Kimmel challenge you to grandparent with God's heart for them.
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| 0:00.0 | Never sacrifice the permanent on the altar of the immediate. The grandkids are |
| 0:05.2 | permanent. Here's how long they're going to live. They're going to live forever. |
| 0:12.0 | And because they're actually eternal people, I think we need some grandparent |
| 0:18.0 | with that in mind. In fact, I think we do so much better in life if we always |
| 0:22.0 | keep an eternal backdrop. |
| 0:30.0 | Welcome to Family Life Today, where we want to help you pursue the relationships |
| 0:38.0 | that matter most. I'm Dave Wilson. And I'm Ann Wilson. And you can find us at |
| 0:42.5 | FamilyLifeToday.com or on the Family Life app. This is Family Life Today. |
| 1:00.5 | If you had list in order, the people that have the greatest impact on children. |
| 1:08.0 | Number one would obviously be parents. What's number two? |
| 1:12.0 | I already know this because you can't just always know things. |
| 1:15.0 | It's grandparents, which surprised me the first time I heard it. I'm shocked at it too. |
| 1:20.0 | Because I thought it would be culture. I thought it would be friends, movie stars, |
| 1:23.0 | athletes, and its grandparents. Yeah, I mean it is most definitely grandparents. |
| 1:29.0 | And yet, I know for us, the least amount of training is offered to grandparents |
| 1:35.0 | about how to have a godly Christian impact on our grandkids. |
| 1:40.0 | I'm embarrassed to say this. Past of a church for 30 years that became a very large church. |
| 1:45.0 | No grandparent ministry in 30 years. That's embarrassing to say out loud. |
| 1:50.0 | But I've found it a lot of churches in that way. And that's going to change today. |
| 1:55.0 | You've got Dr. Tim Kimmel and Larry Fowler in the studio. |
| 1:58.0 | And we're going to talk about intentionally training grandparents to have the impact |
| 2:02.0 | that we're called to have on our grandkids. So what on Family Life today? |
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