Strengthening Your Marriage Through Daily Choices
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Pastor Ron Zappia and his wife, Jody, describe the turbulent early years of their marriage and how God's grace helped restore their relationship. They share the valuable lessons they learned through that process in a discussion based on their book, "The Marriage Knot: 7 Choices That Keep Couples Together."
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Jim Daly for Focus on the Family, and I'd like to talk to you about our |
| 0:05.7 | option ultrasound program. |
| 0:07.8 | For the past 20 years, we have been, you have been, providing ultrasound technology and training to pregnancy centers |
| 0:15.0 | all across the United States. As a result, more than half a million women |
| 0:19.6 | who were considering abortion have chosen to protect the life of their |
| 0:24.4 | pre-born baby. That's an incredible milestone and I'm so thankful for the |
| 0:28.6 | generosity of friends like you who have partnered with us to rescue these precious moms and their children. |
| 0:35.8 | But the need is ongoing. |
| 0:37.8 | It's not over. |
| 0:38.8 | There are so many voices in today's culture who are relentless about abortion rights and they're willing to |
| 0:45.1 | sacrifice the next generation. We can't let that happen. We need to be diligent. |
| 0:51.5 | Speak up for life by giving generously to option ultrasound and we'd |
| 0:56.3 | love to hear from you by June 30th. Donate at Focus on the Family.com Save Lives Today, or call 800, the letter A and the word family. I thought we were going there to get an okay for a divorce. I thought the whole |
| 1:18.8 | meeting was going to be focusing on Ron and what he did and that I was pretty sure the Bible said that that was |
| 1:24.8 | grounds for divorce. You know the choices that a husband and wife make in marriage |
| 1:29.2 | can either strengthen the relationship or they can weaken the relationship and this is focus on the family |
| 1:34.6 | today we have a really inspiring story about a couple who were in trouble and they |
| 1:39.6 | learned what God wanted them to do to change their lives and to give them a renewed wonderful |
| 1:46.0 | marriage and your host is focused president and author Jim Daly and I'm |
| 1:49.8 | John Fuller. |
| 1:50.8 | John Ron and Jody Zappia have an amazing testimony of faith and it demonstrates |
| 1:56.2 | God's power to heal a marriage and that's why I'm excited to hear from them today. |
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