What Stepfamily Teaches About God
Hey, have you ever noticed that God uses family to grow us up?
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Ron Deal
Ron L. Deal is one of the most widely read and viewed experts on blended families in the country. He is Director of FamilyLife Blended® for FamilyLife®, founder of Smart Stepfamilies™, and the author and Consulting Editor of the Smart Stepfamily Series of books including the bestselling Building Love Together in Blended Families: The 5 Love Languages® and Becoming Stepfamily Smart (with Dr. Gary Chapman), The Smart Stepfamily: 7 Steps to a Healthy Family, and Preparing to Blend. Ron is a licensed marriage and family therapist, popular conference speaker, and host of the FamilyLife Blended podcast. He and his wife, Nan, have three sons and live in Little Rock, Arkansas. Learn more at FamilyLife.com/blended.
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Ron Deal
Ron L. Deal is one of the most widely read and viewed experts on blended families in the country. He is Director of FamilyLife Blended® for FamilyLife®, founder of Smart Stepfamilies™, and the author and Consulting Editor of the Smart Stepfamily Series of books including the bestselling Building Love Together in Blended Families: The 5 Love Languages® and Becoming Stepfamily Smart (with Dr. Gary Chapman), The Smart Stepfamily: 7 Steps to a Healthy Family, and ...more
Hey, have you ever noticed that God uses family to grow us up?
Ron: Hey, have you ever noticed that God uses family to grow us up?
Announcer: For FamilyLife Blended®, here’s Ron Deal.
Ron: I mean, for example, God uses the experience of being a child to teach us obedience and respect for authority, right? Being a parent, for example, to teach us how much He loves us and how far He’d go to rescue us. If you’re single, He’s teaching you about brotherly love and living in community with others. Living in a blended family teaches a lot of things but one of them is the power of grace. You know, to welcome the outsider in. Turn a stranger into a family member.
Yes, God uses families. All kinds of families. It’s one of his best tools for shaping us into the image of Christ. So I’m wondering, what is your family teaching? I’m Ron Deal.
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