Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast

House or Home - Parenting Edition - Finding Hope for Single Parent and Blended Families, Part 1


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Parenting is a demanding job on its own, but if you’re a single parent or part of a blended family - it’s even more difficult. In this program, Chip talks to those parents and families who may be desperate for hope and encouragement. Hear how Chip and his wife Theresa raised their kids in a blended home and what you can learn from their story to parent under similar circumstances.

Main Points

A story of hope and restoration - Ruth 1-4

Single parenting - principles and practice

  1. Make your relationship with Christ your #1 priority.
  2. Get connected with a strong, godly, same sex group for support and accountability.
  3. Accept this "season" of your life and set realistic expectations.
  4. Remember God can "make-up" for what you can't give your kids.
  5. Refuse to become a victim, a martyr, or a super parent.
  6. Don't compromise your spiritual and moral standards to "provide a father/mother" for your children.

Blended families - principles and practice

  1. Count the cost thoroughly.
  2. Get pre-marital counseling from a mutually trusted, biblical, and wise resource.
  3. Make your mate your new, unequivocal #1 relationship ahead of children.
  4. Develop a weekly communication tool and mechanism to wrestle family conflicts, schedules, and miscommunication to the ground in a nonthreateneing and safe environment.
  5. Make the spiritual development of your marriage and family the utmost priority; only God and supernatural love can make this work - you don't have that apart from vital union with Christ in the context of a strong, loving, biblical community.
  6. Remember it will take time, it will be harder than you thought, and it can be a glorious testimony of God's restoration and redemption - so don't quit, don't withdraw, don't bail out, and know that God will bring results. - James 1:2-4; Hebrews 10:36
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About Chip Ingram

Chip Ingram’s passion is helping Christians really live like Christians. As a pastor, author, and teacher for more than three decades, Chip has helped believers around the world move from spiritual spectators to healthy, authentic disciples of Jesus by living out God’s truth in their lives and relationships in transformational ways.

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