Making Helpful Changes to your Communication (Part 2 of 2)
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 22 November 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Mike Bechtle wants to help people communicate better, especially in our social media world where everybody is talking all at once and nobody is listening. Mike explains we need “more weight” or value to our communication in order to be heard, and he talked about how we can use emotion in positive ways to energize our conversations. (Part 2 of 2)
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| 0:00.0 | In those early years, when I came to know the Lord, he and his family were so |
| 0:07.3 | against it that they actually advised him to divorce me. |
| 0:12.5 | Joyce spent many lonely years trying to trust God and love her husband well. |
| 0:17.2 | Thankfully, she found the support and encouragement she needed. |
| 0:21.0 | I think that God just really used to focus on the family and your guys' ministry to |
| 0:26.0 | grow me and prepare me and guide my heart to live out in front of my husband what it means to follow Christ. |
| 0:35.8 | In the best news of all is that Joyce Husband also became a follower of Jesus. |
| 0:40.8 | I'm Jim Daley. When we work together, we can strengthen more marriages like Joyce and give |
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| 1:00.8 | Today on Focusonthefamily, we're returning to a conversation. We started last time about |
| 1:05.4 | communication and how we can learn to do it well and better. Your host is focus |
| 1:10.5 | president and author Jim Daley and I'm John Fuller. John, let's try a few of these lines. |
| 1:15.1 | I'm sorry you find communicating so difficult next time I'll read your mind. |
| 1:19.3 | Have you ever said that? Have I heard that at time or two as well? How about communication? |
| 1:25.0 | It's best to pretend people are actually listening to you. Here's the singer Romeo and Juliet is |
| 1:30.7 | just another example of why communication within a relationship is so important. It doesn't always |
| 1:35.8 | end well. Yeah, I guess so. And George Bernard Shaw observed that the single biggest problem in |
| 1:41.6 | communication is the illusion that it has taken place. That is so true in marriage. I think we've |
| 1:48.9 | established that communication can be difficult at times. Would you agree? Yes. And we think it |
| 1:54.2 | goes better than it does oftentimes. And let's just say it this way. If you don't believe me, |
| 1:57.6 | just get married. And then if you still don't believe me, have children. And that'll show the |
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