Showing Love in Everyday Relationships
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 3 February 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Based on his book, The Seven Laws of Love, author Dave Willis urges listeners to strengthen their relationships using Christ’s love as a model. He offers advice for every type of relationship from strengthening your marriage to managing difficult relationships with coworkers.
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| 0:00.0 | Be kind and compassionate to one another, it says in Ephesians. Be tender-hearted toward one another. |
| 0:06.9 | And what that means practically is be your loved one's biggest encourager, not their biggest critic. |
| 0:12.4 | And if we'll just choose to lead with encouragement and to always speak the truth through that lens of encouragement, then we'll be on the right track. |
| 0:18.4 | Dave Willis joins us today on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly, |
| 0:21.9 | and I'm John Fuller. Well, I'm sure you're familiar with the verse in the New Testament of the Bible |
| 0:26.1 | about the way of love. It's 1 Corinthians 13, 4 through 8. You'll know it when I say it here. Love is |
| 0:32.1 | patient and kind. Love does not envy or boast. It's not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way. |
| 0:39.0 | It is not irritable or resentful. |
| 0:41.5 | It does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. |
| 0:45.5 | Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. |
| 0:50.7 | Love never ends. |
| 0:52.4 | And man, that is what we believe here at Focus on the Family. We want to help |
| 0:56.1 | you have the best relationships you can have, whether that's in courtship or marriage, with your |
| 1:01.6 | children, in your friendships, and especially in your relationship with the Lord. So today we want to |
| 1:07.6 | explore what love truly looks like and help you learn how to build purposeful and intentional relationships with those around you, |
| 1:16.2 | emulating the love of Christ. |
| 1:18.1 | And as I said, Dave Willis is with us. |
| 1:21.2 | He's a former pastor, a speaker, an author, and a relationship coach. |
| 1:25.2 | He's married to Ashley, and they've been on the broadcast here before. |
| 1:28.4 | They have four boys, and Dave has a great book called The Seven Laws of Love, |
| 1:33.2 | Essential Principles for Building Stronger Relationships. |
| 1:36.5 | We have that here at the ministry. |
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