God Breathes on Blended Families [Paperback]

Moe Becnel (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 18, 2000

In 1989, Moe & Paige Becnel married and began the task of blending his three children and her two children into a true family. The Becnels experienced many struggles, failures, and eventually victory in the blending process. God Breathes on Blended Families is the story of their blended family coming together in fullness, and is a handbook for other blended families who are pursuing a solid, loving family. This book identifies several crucial problem areas that blended families, children of divorce and stepparents face today, and how the Becnels were able to overcome to make their family complete.

Editorial Reviews

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"God Breathes on Blended Families" has been a tremendous blessing for my husband and I. -- Alicia Landen

... a tremendous testimony of the restoration life that God wants all blended families to live. -- Sr. Pastor Dino Rizzo, Trinity Christian Center

When I read this book it hit me the importance of "words" and "hope." What a tremendous manual and a pillar of hope for blended families! -- Pam Thum - Christian Recording Artist

From the Publisher

God Breathes on Blended Families is a tremendous testimony of the restoration life that God wants all blended families to live. As God has done so many times in the Bible, He has turned the Becnels life around and made their family something beautiful. And what He has done for them, He will do for all who follow Jesus Christ.

Dino Rizzo Chief Executive Healing Place Productions

Baton Rouge, LA

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Product Details

• Paperback: 112 pages
• Publisher: Healing Place Productions (April 18, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0967868009
• ISBN-13: 978-0967868004
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,240,699 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Finding the Beauty in Blended Families..., July 12, 2001

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Nicole L. Weyant (Southeastern United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: God Breathes on Blended Families (Paperback)

It is often very difficult for divorced persons of faith to move on into a life of fulfillment and grace. Sometimes it's guilt, sometimes it's regret and sometimes it is resentment that holds us down in the bonds of living a half-life.

God Breathes on Blended Families by Moe Becnel & Paige Becnel reminds us that this is not what God wants for our lives. Christ came so that we may have life, and have it abundantly. Through Christ, we ALL have forgiveness for not-so-perfect pasts. This simple reminder echoes through the book in reassurance that the regret and guilt that restrain us are imposed by the ideals of an imperfect man... not by a perfect, forgiving and loving God.

The tenderness and truth of the Becnel's story inspires hope and comfort in the family struggling to form the delicate bonds that truly define a "family". This book has given me hope for the future, and has highlighted the forgiveness of my past. The Becnels have reminded me through their intimate depiction of poigniant moments and proud smiles, that...

YES! God Breathes on Blended Families!

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Practical life application for blended family struggles, March 6, 2004

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I Wanna ROCK!! (Mendham, New Jersey USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: God Breathes on Blended Families (Paperback)

I am a Christian, a husband and a father who with his wife, started on a blended family journey three years ago. All seven of us expected family bliss. But then reality hit and the difficulties began in earnest. With the accompanying workbook we also purchased, this resource not only illuminates many of the difficulties our family is dealing with - which helps us realize we are not alone in such struggles - it also encourages a compassionate heart and true understanding of 'the other side' of why the struggle is happening in the first place. Using the Bible as it's basis for responding in grace yet tough love, Paige and Moe weave a theme of having us remove our own pride from the equation, and start having us see things the way God sees things, to get things back on track. While it is true that it will take time to turn things around for ours or any other blended family, I have for the first time through this Becnel account, a reason for hope in what I was beginning to see as a hopeless situation, and a vision of what our family truly CAN be. If I had to describe this book and workbook, I would describe them as a message of Hope and a reason to continue on. If you are at your wits end in frustration with a blended family situation that just does not seem to be getting better, you need this book!!

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Book Whose Time Has Come . . ., October 31, 2002

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Reading Rainbow (Melbourne, FL United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: God Breathes on Blended Families (Paperback)

As a blended family author myself, I take great pains before recommending any self-help book, but Moe & Paige Becnel took even greater pains when penning God Breathes on Blended Families -- and thus I recommend this book with five stars. (Though I'd give 6 if I could!) It is hard to think of a time when a family needs God's grace more than when blending together, and in a time when 1 out of 2 families is indeed "blended," it's hard to think of a time when we might need this book more. If you are part of a blended family, or becoming part of a blended family, or know someone who already is, you owe it to yourself to get this book.