Teaching kids to forgive and seeing people as God sees them
A host reflects on parenting: when his kids are hurt at school he teaches them to forgive without skipping over the fact that the hurt was real, and to feel compassion for those who don't know Christ. The vocalist shares how learning that her father was abandoned as a child broke her anger toward him and let her approach him with God's love. Another host describes his nightly prayer: 'Can I see this person the way you see them?'
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Dear LFTP: the sister's belongings in the garage
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Dear LFTP: the bedwetting friend and bedwettingstore.com
- How can I persuade my friend to get help for his bedwetting without embarrassing him?
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Pope style: the miscarriage post and loving people like Jesus
- How should believers share hard theological truths with grieving people?
Boova shares that a Facebook post wrecked him: friends suffering miscarriages after fertility treatments were told by another commenter that their unborn children are in hell.
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Dear LFTP: Riley and the dying rescue animals
- How can a friend tell Riley, who rescues terminal animals and is crushed each time one dies, that she should stop taking them in?
A listener asks how to tell his friend Riley, who rescues terminal animals and breaks down each time one dies, to stop taking them in.
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