Strengthening Your Grip on the Family, Part 1

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Chuck Swindoll - Insight for Living

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Christian, Religious And Spirituality, 507918

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🗓️ 22 April 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Strengthening Your Grip: How to Be Grounded in a Chaotic World

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0:00.0	Raising a family is hard work, especially in today's world where the forces of our culture are working against hardworking parents.
0:16.0	Today, on Insight for Living, and again tomorrow, Chuck Swindall presents the final message in his
0:21.3	hallmark series called Strengthening Your Grip. And whether you're raising children right now
0:26.4	or you're in a grandparenting role, help is on the way. Later in the program, we'll explain how
0:31.8	you can easily gain access to the resource materials for this practical study. Chuck titled
0:37.3	his message,
0:38.3	Strengthening Your Grim on the Family.
0:44.3	In 1975, Edith Schaefer wrote a book that had a question for a title. The question is, what is a family?
0:59.0	And then she commenced through the book to answer the question chapter by chapter,
1:05.0	some of which read,
1:07.0	A family is a changing life mobile.
1:13.5	It is the birthplace of creativity.
1:21.1	A formation center for human relationships, a shelter in the time of storm.
1:32.3	And she added, a family is a perpetual relay of truth, an economic unit, a door that has hinges and a lock. A museum of memories. Those answers sound beautiful, in fact, almost too beautiful.
1:48.5	The real question that you must answer
1:53.8	is what is your family.
2:00.3	Chances are good, it is not a modern day representative of the little house on the prairie.
2:01.6	As much as we would like ours to be,
2:05.6	most would have to say we're a far cry from that.
2:11.6	Nothing ideal, nothing unrealistic is happening in our families.
2:18.3	No, that's where the real world is.
2:21.3	That's where life really makes up its mind.
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