Reconciliation is Still Possible
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2022
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
When there's been a betrayal in a marriage, healing can take a long time. While waiting for restoration isn't easy, God is willing to send you some help. John, Greg and Erin discuss how you can be patient in your marriage, when you're hoping for reconciliation. Featuring Jeff and Cheryl Scruggs.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Jim Daley here. If you like the focus on the family broadcast and haven't |
| 0:04.7 | grown tired of this voice just yet, you'll love my ReFocus podcast. On ReFocus I |
| 0:10.2 | take a deeper dive with a respected thinker on different aspects of culture. I |
| 0:14.4 | ask those hard questions that maybe they don't get that often and I don't |
| 0:18.8 | shy away from challenging topics to help you share God's grace, truth, and love |
| 0:23.6 | with others. So listen to ReFocus with Jim Daley on your favorite streaming app |
| 0:28.2 | today. I think we all love a good redemption story. It seems like things always |
| 0:40.9 | head towards some terrible direction and then boom and intervention or |
| 0:44.9 | something happens. It's amazing and it may be that in your marriage you need |
| 0:50.9 | something amazing to happen. You need redemption today. If so I'm so glad you |
| 0:56.0 | listened in. I'm John Fuller joined by Dr. Greg Smolley and his wife Erin and |
| 1:00.3 | they lead our marriage team here. Erin, how about you? What's a what's a favorite |
| 1:04.9 | book or movie or story of redemption that you have? Oh one of my favorites is |
| 1:09.0 | redeeming love. It's just such a great story and of course it's straight out of |
| 1:13.0 | Hosea talking about you know such a transformation of this young lady's |
| 1:18.7 | life and you know it's it's funny because years ago Greg and I were on a bus |
| 1:25.2 | for a conference and he introduces me to this woman and I'm I'm like oh what |
| 1:31.4 | book did you write? And she says redeeming love and I was like huh I haven't |
| 1:36.4 | heard of it. She had no idea. I would read that book and love that book for |
| 1:43.7 | the rest of my life. Well I think we all have something like that story or |
| 1:49.4 | something similar where we say oh there's hope there. There's so many marriages |
| 1:54.0 | that aren't in a spot where there's hope. It's dark. It's difficult. It's |
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