Ron Deal: Well-Blended–and Challenges Stepfamilies Face
FamilyLife Today®
FamilyLife Network
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
If you're a stepfamily, you face particular challenges. Author and counselor Ron Deal offers practical help towards blending a family with character.
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Well Blended Course: This comprehensive, self-driven course for a blended family to more easily adapt couples, groups, or individuals.
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| 0:00.0 | If I said something was well blended, what would that mean to chocolate milkshake? |
| 0:05.4 | I knew you were going to say that a big chocolate milkshake with thick ice cream |
| 0:11.5 | Maybe some malt maybe definitely whipped cream with a cherry. That sounds good |
| 0:16.1 | I was just I was just thinking of a smoothie. Just throw it all in there and it's so amazing |
| 0:21.6 | But it has to be well blended, you know, that's the difference between you and me you are healthy with the smoothie |
| 0:27.8 | And I am unhealthy with the chocolate. But you're skinny. What is that? I don't know about that |
| 0:43.5 | Welcome to Family Life today where we want to help you pursue the relationships that matter most |
| 0:49.0 | I'm Ann Wilson and I'm Dave Wilson and you can find us at familylifetoday.com |
| 0:54.0 | or on our family life app. This is Family Life today |
| 1:10.3 | What are we talking about blending things? Well, we're talking about it because we have Ron deal the director of our blended |
| 1:16.7 | Family ministry at Family Life and he's in the studio with us today |
| 1:20.4 | Welcome to Family Life today Ron. Thanks guys. It's always good to be with you |
| 1:23.8 | And I am so hungry for a chocolate shake right now. Thank you very much for that |
| 1:28.6 | You're welcome, and you know what? After this we should go get one together. That would be let's do it be nice |
| 1:34.2 | But you're in the studio today talking about some online courses. I didn't even know how many different ones we have but |
| 1:41.6 | Talk about what we are now offering and is it a new thing? Yeah, Family Life has been actually working on this for a couple of years |
| 1:47.8 | And COVID it's hard to slow it all this down |
| 1:50.1 | But as of right now we have eight online courses online on demand which of course means that people can move through these courses |
| 1:58.9 | On their own time in their own way at their own pace sit at home be uncomfortable |
| 2:04.4 | And do the online course and just sort of move through it in a way that |
| 2:08.4 | Serves you and we have eight courses. I mean the love like you mean it course |
| 2:12.7 | You know Bob Lapines based on his book. Yeah video series the nearly complete guide to better married sex |
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