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A New Season
A Robertson Family Love Story of Brokenness and Redemption
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About The Book
Infidelity, deceit, distrust, and shame. Unfortunately, these are recurring themes in many of today’s marriages in America—even in the family-values-promoting, Christian-based Robertson family.
With a romance that began in junior high, the couple got off to a rocky start but soon settled into married life and had two baby girls. Alan became a pastor in the church where his family had been members for years. Then, when Lisa had an affair, the heartache and the tension was very public.
But this is not a book about a marriage gone wrong. It is a candid story of rescued love and renewed commitment. After nearly getting divorced, Alan and Lisa came to terms with what went wrong in their marriage and both began the hard work of making it right. Now married for twenty-nine years, Alan and Lisa counsel couples in trouble and speak across the country—openly sharing their hardships, their journey to renewed commitment, and a thriving marriage.
Excerpt
SEASONED REFLECTIONS . . .
AL: When I look back at the difficult beginnings our family endured—from Mom’s getting pregnant at sixteen to Dad’s wild, irresponsible ways—I am grateful that God saw the big picture all along. He always knew those bad situations were temporary. He had complete confidence that He would lead us through, and eventually out of, the circumstances that threatened to destroy my dad as a person, my parents’ marriage, and our life as a family. The enemy had a plan to ruin us, but God had a plan to save us, redeem us, and bless us.
Even though my parents did not go to church, God reached out to all of us by reaching out to me through this couple.
I believe God was working in our family when we did not even know it. We had no clue when we moved to Junction City that the Laytons would be our neighbors and that God would use them to connect us to Himself. Even though my parents did not go to church, God reached out to all of us by reaching out to me through this couple. He had planted a seed of faith in our previous generations, but it was not deeply rooted or growing by the time I came along. So He watered and nourished that seed in me as a child. Over a period of years, that seed of faith took root and began to flourish in our family. Now our faith is the most important aspect of our lives, and all of us are walking with God—even my dad, who once seemed the least likely person in the world to become a Christian.
No matter what we were going through, God had a plan for our family. First and foremost, He had a plan that would eventually bring each of us into a personal relationship with Himself through His Son, Jesus Christ. Second Peter 3:9 says that God is not willing for anyone to perish, which means He wants to bring every person on earth into a personal relationship of salvation through His Son, Jesus Christ. That included my parents, my brothers, and me—and it includes you.
Eventually, God’s big-picture plan for our family also included reconciliation between my parents, who now enjoy a wonderful, loving marriage. It involved great relationships among what is now a big extended family, as well as a position of influence through a television show—the last thing we could have ever imagined doing when we got kicked out of Arkansas.
Little did I know when we left Junction City that we would ultimately end up in West Monroe, Louisiana, a place where God would literally change our lives. Even though I faced hardships as a teenager—due to my own bad choices—and heartbreak as a young husband and father, I can say with conviction that God has been with me through every difficulty. Starting from the day I was born, God has turned the most bitter situations sweet. The journey has not been easy, but it has been rich and has now brought me to a place of happiness, peace, and the greatest love I’ve ever known.
When I think about what could have happened to my family and to me during those rough periods when I was young, I think about Romans 8:28: “We know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.” For sure, not everything we went through was “good.” Some of it was very, very bad. But I can see now that God did work all of it together—using each experience as a part of a greater whole—to do something redemptive in our family.
If you or someone you love is going through a situation that seems hopeless, if things are so bad that it seems they can never be good—have hope. I am living proof that bad beginnings can lead to happy endings. God has a big picture in mind for your life, just as He did for my family and me all those years ago. Stay close to God, persevere through the hard times, and believe life can be better—and pretty soon it will be.
Product Details
- Publisher: Howard Books (January 6, 2015)
- Length: 272 pages
- ISBN13: 9781476773209
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Raves and Reviews
"The Robertson family you see on TV is characterized by happy marriages, great family relationships, and a strong faith in God--and all that is the absolute truth. But as you read Al and Lisa's book, A New Season, you may feel as if you've stepped into a soap opera. Theirs is a story of two people who brought some hard childhood experiences into a union that only magnified the problems. The journey from soap opera to blessed marriage is based in a miraculous restoration that you, the reader, can also experience. By the end of this book, you will realize that no marriage problems are insurmountable--if you have faith. "
– Tim Harlow, Sr. Pastor of Parkview Christian Church, Chicago
“Al and Lisa Robertson’s story is one of wounded-ness, poor decisions, sin, relational pain, and betrayal?but ultimately reconciliation and redemption through Christ. For those who say ‘but you don’t understand what I’ve been through,’ I recommend this book as a clear example God can and does restore broken lives and hearts, no matter how fragile.”
– Jim Daly, president of Focus on the Family
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