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Sharing God’s Light Through Art

We recorded the latest edition of Focus on the Family with Jim Daly in a different kind of studio. Instead of microphones and recording consoles, we were surrounded by more easels, paint brushes, and canvases in one place than I’ve ever seen.

The studio belongs to Morgan Weistling, who has been an artist since he was old enough to hold a crayon. He has studied under some of the most legendary illustrators and artists of the last century.

Topics: Current Events Tags: faith October 11, 2024 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

Understanding the Importance of Voting

I don’t believe I’m overstating things when I say that the upcoming election is the most important in recent memory. There is a lot at stake!

In America, we’re blessed with a government that, Abraham Lincoln said, is “of the people, by the people, and, for the people.” But our system of government is only effective when citizens participate in the election process and vote. Christians especially have a responsibility to vote for candidates who uphold biblical values.

Topics: Current Events Tags: faith September 30, 2024 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

Ten Memorable Quotes from Dr. Os Guinness

I had the privilege of sitting down with bestselling author and teacher Dr. Os Guinness some time ago in Washington, D.C. Os is a brilliant scholar and social critic who has devoted years of thought and study to the cultural chaos running rampant in America. 

I’m eager to share our extended conversation on this week’s podcast, but I wanted to give you a sneak peek with some of the more memorable observations and reflections he offered.

Topics: Current Events Tags: faith, news September 23, 2024 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

Living Out Your Christian Faith in Public Service

On Focus on the Family with Jim Daly, I’m speaking with Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson.

Johnson is the first Speaker of the House in the history of the United States Congress to take over mid-service. Before serving in Congress, Johnson worked as a constitutional lawyer for 20 years, serving with Alliance Defending Freedom as a litigator and spokesperson. He was elected to the Louisiana State House in 2015 and to the U.S. Congress, serving Louisiana’s 4th district, in 2016.

Topics: Current Events Tags: news, pro-life September 19, 2024 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

Just Do It

Good fathering isn’t about good intentions. It’s about action.

Years ago, a friend of mine lived next door to a family consisting of two children, a mom, and a dad who struggled to take action. That became clear the day he came home with an aluminum fishing boat he’d bought for a couple hundred bucks. It was nothing fancy, but he looked forward to getting out on the lake each weekend, so his kids could fish and swim.

Topics: Current Events Tags: faith, family September 18, 2024 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

Jim Daly Responds to ABC News

Dear Friends:

Nearly 60 million people tuned into last night’s presidential debate in Philadelphia between Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democrat nominee, and former President Donald Trump, the Republican candidate.

But what I’m writing to you about today is about neither political candidates nor political parties. Not even the Election. I’m reaching out to you about abortion and our ongoing quest to save preborn babies.

One of the more pointed parts of last night’s exchange involved the now half-century plus debate over the sanctity of life.

Topics: Current Events September 11, 2024 by Katie Anderson

Understanding and Overcoming Trauma

Research shows an estimated 70% of adults in the United States have experienced a traumatic event at least once in their lives. Trauma can range from divorce to abuse to a global pandemic – something we all experienced. Even everyday stress has a cumulative effect.

Dr. Gregory Jantz is founder of The Center: A Place of Hope in Edmonds, Washington, a renowned treatment center for depression. He says when his clinic opened years ago, he “didn’t fully understand that most ailments and afflictions people deal with can be traced back to trauma of some kind.

Topics: Current Events Tags: faith September 11, 2024 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

Restoring Hope to Your Marriage

Ron and Opal Erickson call themselves “musicianaires.” Ron is an accomplished steel guitarist, and Opal is an accomplished vocalist. They’ve made beautiful music together for over 40 years, not only as musicians but as a couple.

But they only achieved that because they’ve rebuilt their marriage out of the rubble of a relationship that seemed irreparably broken. Through God’s grace and wisdom, they survived adultery, rejection, and betrayal and created a new marriage forged in trust, love, and grace.

Topics: Current Events Tags: faith, marriage August 26, 2024 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

What’s Your Excuse?

What holds you back from achieving more than you do? Money? Time? How about excuses?

If anybody had a reason to make excuses, it was Paul Richard Alexander. As a child, polio paralyzed him and severely damaged his respiratory system. From age six until he died at 78, Paul was confined to a machine called an iron lung – a medical contraption that enabled him to breathe.

The machine kept Paul alive. but it also imprisoned him.

Topics: Current Events Tags: faith August 16, 2024 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

Live Your Obituary

What would you like your obituary to say about you? If you want to feel confident in what those final words say, you may want to write them yourself.

That’s what Pennsylvania schoolteacher Ashley Koozma did. She faced a losing battle with cancer and wrote her own obituary, explaining what she discovered about life by contemplating her death. She closed her reflections with these words: “What do you value in life? In the end, that’s what matters.”

Ashley is right.

Topics: Current Events Tags: faith, family August 6, 2024 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

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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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