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Rescuing Your Marriage from Pornography

A study by Josh McDowell revealed:

Seventy-nine percent of men in the evangelical church use pornography at least once a month.

Fifty-five percent of marriages are negatively impacted by pornography.

That’s astonishing data considering that pornography:

Breeds disconnection rather than intimacy.

Deepens secrecy.

Creates distrust.

Destroys marriages.

Many women are suffering because their husband uses pornography. They feel isolated, ashamed, hopeless, and helpless. They’ve tried everything they can think of to fight for their marriage – like being more sexual with him; being more patient, forgiving, or gracious; or creating a more loving environment – all to no avail.

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Create Your Forever Family: The Joys of Adoption and Foster Care

Ryan and Kayla North are co-founders of One Big Happy Home, an organization that offers practical strategies, guidance, and resources for caregivers whose adoptive children are dealing with trauma, behavior challenges and attachment issues.

Over the past 10 years, the Norths have fostered nearly 30 children. They currently have six kids – two biological and four adopted – ages 22 to 13. But foster parenting wasn’t part of the Norths’ original intent for their family. They assumed they’d follow a more traditional path.

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Rediscovering God’s Love, Joy, and Peace

What does the Tooth Fairy, Santa Claus and the saying “if you cross your eyes, they’ll get stuck that way” all have in common?

They’re all lies that most of us have believed at some point. Fortunately, these untruths and others like them, are mostly harmless.

But many other lies prevent us from flourishing in some area of our lives. It’s important to examine lies through the lens of Scripture.

To do that, Gary Thomas is joining me on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly to help you dismantle the prominent lies of this age and discover true freedom in Christ.

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Protecting Your Child from Online Dangers

Author Mandy Majors and her husband, Matt, knew their parenting had to shift into a different gear when their nine-year-old daughter asked where babies come from. It turns out her daughter’s friend had watched a sexually graphic video at home then shared details about it at school.

Mandy and her husband admit to overreacting to the situation by immediately saying no to all technology. Unfortunately, when they bubble-wrapped their daughter and tried to control her every move, a wall went up between them, and their connection and communication suffered.

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Mama Bear Prayers

When parents ask me for advice, I encourage them to pray. Sometimes prayer is all you have.

I’m sure you’ve had moments where you felt helpless to protect your child in the midst of circumstances that were beyond your control. Every parent has paced a hospital floor, lost sleep in worry, or kept vigil at a living room window until a child returned safely home. We’ve all bandaged enough scraped knees to know that we can’t protect our children from everything no matter how vigilant we are.

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Finding Healing After an Abortion

According to data from the Guttmacher Institute, established in 1968 as a subsidiary of Planned Parenthood, one in four women in the United States have an abortion. Evangelical Protestants have abortions at approximately half that rate, which is a better percentage overall but still uncomfortably high.

Author Camille Cates has experienced both sides of the abortion issue. When she entered high school, she gave in to pressure to be sexually active and became pregnant. Though raised in a Christian home, her parents suggested that she have an abortion.

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Love is a Decision

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There is only one reason respected author and marriage expert Dr. Gary Chapman vacuums his house: Love. No, he doesn’t love vacuuming; he loves his wife, Karolyn. Her love language is acts of service, so Dr. Chapman spends a lot of time doing things that he hates but that make her happy – like vacuuming the floor.

Dr. Chapman says he shares that story with his audiences, not so they’ll applaud him for being such a great guy, but so they’ll learn an important lesson about love.

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Getting Along with Others at Home and Work

If you’ve not taken a personality test, read a book on the subject, or explore Focus on the Family’s website for information about personality differences. I also encourage you to tune in to the latest edition of Focus on the Family with Jim Daly. I’m featuring a recording of learning styles expert Cynthia Tobias, who spoke on this subject at a chapel service at our Colorado Springs campus.

As you’ll hear, Cynthia explains how God has uniquely wired each of us as individuals to communicate, work with others, and see the world through the filter of our personality type.

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Unexpected Paths

The secret to success isn’t avoiding mistakes, it’s making the most of the path you’re on.

Kade Lovell can tell you all about that. He entered a foot race when he was nine years old and won it in remarkable fashion. Not a race on the playground against schoolmates, mind you. No, this was a 10K against adults.

Officially, Kade was registered to run the 5K. But a few kilometers in a volunteer instructed him to turn left when he should have turned right.

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John Smoltz: Determination and Surrender

I am pleased to welcome John Smoltz as my guest on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly.

John has been Major League Baseball’s lead game analyst for Fox Sports since 2014. Before that, he pitched for the Atlanta Braves, played in five World Series, and helped his team win a World Series title in 1995.

John grew up Catholic, but his faith meant little to him for most of his life. He thought of himself not as the prodigal son who was lost and confused but as the older brother who had life under control.

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Jim-Daly Jim Daly is a husband, father and President of Focus on the Family and host of its National Radio Hall of Fame broadcast. His blog, Daly Focus, is full of timely commentary and wisdom designed to help you navigate and understand today’s culture. His latest book is Marriage Done Right.

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