About the Host
Ron Deal
Ron Deal is Director of FamilyLife Blended®️ for FamilyLife®️ and President of Smart Stepfamilies™️. He is a family ministry consultant and conducts marriage and family seminars around the country; he specializes in marriage education and stepfamily enrichment. He is one of the most widely read authors on stepfamily living in the country.
Episode Transcript
Ron: Are you stuck in the past?
Announcer: For FamilyLife Blended®, here’s Ron Deal.
Ron: You know, life teaches many lessons. We all make mistakes. And hopefully we learn from those mistakes. But, sometimes it’s hard to live out the lessons learned when you’re still stuck in the mistakes. I hear this occasionally from stepparents who have difficult or distant relationships with their own biological children—they just can’t allow themselves to invest in their stepchildren. Guilt gets the best of them and they can’t enjoy the present.
But we should, as Paul says in Romans 6, count ourselves dead to sin and alive to God through Jesus. Learn from your mistakes and live out his grace today. Your past is not your present. God’s peace is. For FamilyLife Blended I’m Ron Deal.
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