Your Past Before You Married
Focus on Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
What was life like for you before you got married? Jim Daly talks with Sean and Lanette Reed, and Sean opens up about how he wasn't following the Lord until he became a teenager. Also, John and Greg talk about why it's important to address your baggage before marriage.
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| 0:00.0 | For more than 20 years, Susie has been listening to Focus on the Family, finding spiritual |
| 0:05.5 | encouragement and practical help for her marriage and family. And that's why she donates |
| 0:11.2 | every month to the ministry. I know that any gifts to the good work that focus on the family |
| 0:17.3 | does will have eternal consequences for whoever happens to be listening to the show |
| 0:23.4 | at whatever time. |
| 0:24.6 | Hi, I'm Jim Daly. |
| 0:25.8 | I'd like to invite you to join Susie and become part of our friends of focus on the family team. |
| 0:31.1 | Just never underestimate what God can do with any offering. |
| 0:35.1 | We may not know the ripple effect caused by our gifts, |
| 0:38.7 | but we can be sure that they will be used towards His kingdom. |
| 0:41.9 | Working together, we can be a lifeline to families, |
| 0:45.1 | giving them godly truth and hope. |
| 0:47.2 | Join our monthly support team today by calling 800 the letter A and the word family, |
| 0:53.0 | 800 A family, or donate at focus on the family.com |
| 0:57.4 | slash families. |
| 1:05.7 | It's never too late to have a great marriage. |
| 1:08.5 | I'm John Fuller, joined by Dr. Greg Smalley, who heads up our |
| 1:11.5 | Focus Marriage team, and we're going to listen now to a clip from Focus on the Family with Jim |
| 1:16.3 | Daily. Jim spoke with Sean and Lynette Reed, and Sean here explains what it was like coming from |
| 1:22.8 | a difficult background and how that affected their relationship. Sean, let me start with you. |
| 1:29.0 | Your love story, you and I have so many things in common in terms of single parent |
| 1:34.3 | childhood and difficulty growing up and things like that. |
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