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Transformed with Dr. Greg Gifford

WHY ARE STUBBORN PEOPLE SO HARD TO LOVE—AND WHAT CAN YOU DO?

Transformed with Dr. Greg Gifford

Fortis Institute

Christianity, Education, Religion & Spirituality

4.9717 Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Transformed Podcast Episode 99 | November 28, 2024  Dr. Greg Gifford tackles the challenge of loving stubborn people, offering biblical insights to approach them with grace, patience, and understanding. Learn how stubbornness reflects deeper heart issues and why God uses these challenging relationships to shape us into Christ’s image. ___ Thanks for listening! Transformed would not be possible without the financial support of our Gospel Partners. If you would like to support Transformed we would be extremely grateful. VISIT https://fortisinstitute.org/donate/ If you are already a Gospel Partner we couldn’t be more thankful for you if we tried!

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0:00.0

What is? What is? What is? What is biblical counseling?

0:03.9

Biblical counseling will grow you from brokenness to wholeness.

0:07.8

I think what you just said made me look at those scenarios differently.

0:10.5

God replaced all my junk with a beautiful light.

0:14.9

God's really been changing the way that I parent my children.

0:20.0

The most amazing thing is the sufficiency of his word.

0:23.6

This is Transform.

0:25.6

And now your host, Assistant Professor of Biblical Counseling at the Master's University

0:30.6

and certified biblical counselor, Dr. Greg Gifford.

0:36.6

Welcome back to Transform. My name is Dr. Greg Gifford.

0:40.0

And today we're talking about loving, stubborn people.

0:42.7

Yes.

0:44.0

I know you may have heard of a stubborn person.

0:47.0

Maybe there's even a dream that you had of a stubborn person,

0:50.1

but maybe just maybe you actually have a stubborn person in your life right now.

0:55.1

They're kind of difficult, cantankerous.

0:58.4

They're hard to love.

0:59.7

How do you love them?

1:02.1

Well, let's just start with kind of what do we mean by stubborn.

1:05.3

When we talk about stubborn, just a basic definition is that this is someone who has a dogged determination not to change one's

1:13.6

attitude or position on something, especially in spite of good arguments or reasons to do so.

1:20.6

So modern English definition from Apple Dictionary of stubborn.

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