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Why Waiting is ESSENTIAL for Your Faith and Marriage | Mark Vroegop

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4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Are you tired of waiting? Feeling impatient with life's delays? You're not alone. In this insightful episode of FamilyLife Today, hosts Dave and Ann Wilson sit down with Pastor and author Mark Vroegop to explore the profound truth that "Waiting Isn't a Waste."

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0:00.0

Everybody has expectations and it's okay. Where I was living and what I had hoped were different.

0:05.6

And so how do I deal with that gap? And waiting is learning to live on what I know to be true about God when I don't know what's true about my life.

0:18.1

I think we're about to talk about one of the things I hate the most in life.

0:21.9

Me too.

0:22.4

I was going to say the same thing.

0:24.1

I thought you were going to get on me because when I drive, I cannot wait.

0:28.6

Here's my question.

0:29.5

I do not want to wait.

0:30.0

People are too slow in front of me.

0:31.4

I am not a nice Christian man behind them.

0:34.3

Does anyone like to wait?

0:36.5

Especially in our culture, in American culture,

0:39.6

we're pretty fast-paced, and I hate waiting. We're going to find out from Mark

0:45.1

Rob cop. Ro-Gop. How do you say it? You got it. Ro-Gop. Yeah. Just say it really fast.

0:52.4

You got it. That's not an easy one to say like, Wilson. You say it. I'm so bad at language. We have Mark Gop. Just say it really fast. You got it. That's not an easy one to say like,

0:54.5

RoGat. You say it. I'm so bad at language. We have Mark Rogop with us today, and we're

0:59.4

going to talk about waiting. Are you a waiter? Are you good at waiting? I wrote the book because

1:04.6

I stink at it. Is it really your story? Totally. It's my story. My last name would indicate that I'm a terrible waiter.

1:12.7

What do you mean?

1:13.6

The name Rogop is Dutch.

1:15.8

And what a lot of people don't know is that a lot of Dutch names are very simple or practical.

1:22.6

When Napoleon conquered the Netherlands, he made everybody get last name.

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