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Week Ending January 12, 2018.

Enjoy!: The Gift of Sexual Pleasure for Women (by Cliff & Joyce Penner)
The Married Guy’s Guide to Great Sex (by Cliff & Joyce Penner)
Little Book of Great Dates (by Dr. Greg & Erin Smalley)
Kingdom Woman (by Tony Evans, Chrystal Evans Hurst)
Financial Peace Junior Kit (by Dave Ramsey)
Put the Disciple Into Discipline (by Erin MacPherson)
Joni and Ken: An Untold Love Story (Ken & Joni Eareckson Tada)
The Case for Life (by Scott Klusendorf)
The Kindness Challenge (by Shaunti Feldhahn)
NIrV Adventures in Odyssey Children’s Bible
Cherish (by Gary Thomas)
Martin Luther (by Eric Metaxas)
Openness Unhindered (by Rosaria Champagne Butterfield)
Honey, We Need to Talk (by David E.

Topics: Family and Home Tags: faith, family, finances, marriage, relationships January 19, 2018 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

Jase and Missy Robertson Talk About Finding God in Our Pain

You see somebody’s true character when they struggle.

That’s what’s so great about Jase and Missy Robertson, from the Duck Dynasty family. They’re the real deal. They’re as down home as they portray themselves to be. They also love Jesus and want you to know it.

The whole Robertson clan has a deep-seated faith in Christ. That was never more evident than when their daughter Mia was born with a cleft palate – a serious condition that required multiple cranial and facial surgeries, eight major procedures so far in the first 11 years of her life.

Topics: Family and Home Tags: broadcast, faith, family January 18, 2018 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

Expressing Pro-Life Views in a Winsome Way

I could have been aborted.

I was born in the ’60s prior to Roe v. Wade, but even then many people felt my mother would have been justified to abort me. She was the perfect candidate. She was 42 and in a high-risk pregnancy. My dad was an alcoholic, and I was the fifth child of a marriage that was already struggling to stay together. I was born into a household in turmoil.

I could have been aborted.

Topics: Family and Home Tags: broadcast, policy, pro-life January 16, 2018 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

A Quadriplegic, Cancer-Surviving Woman Talks About God and Suffering

Joni Eareckson Tada says that suffering is “like a little splash-over of hell.”

Few people can talk about the intensity of suffering with more authority than Joni. A tragic accident fifty years ago left her a quadriplegic, requiring 24-hour care. She’s also survived a stage-3 breast cancer diagnosis, the removal of a 3-inch tumor, and months of chemotherapy that followed.

So when she talks about how to handle suffering in a way that enriches our lives and glorifies God, we all do well to listen.

Topics: Family and Home Tags: broadcast, faith, pro-life January 11, 2018 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

Teaching Your Children to Handle Money Well

Do you teach your children to clean their rooms?

How about to do their homework, to brush their teeth, or to match their clothes?

How about to give money, save money, and to spend it properly?

If you said no to that last one, it might be because you see your child’s allowance as simply an economic transfer instead of as a chance to develop their character.

Our guest for the next couple of programs is the money guru himself, radio host and bestselling author, Dave Ramsey.

Topics: Family and Home Tags: broadcast, finances, kids, parenting January 8, 2018 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

Focus on the Family Best Seller List

Week Ending January 2, 2018

Openness Unhindered (by Rosaria Champagne Butterfield)
Cherish (by Gary Thomas)
The Kindness Challenge (by Shaunti Feldhahn)
Exploring the Joy of Christmas (by Phil Robertson)
Hope Rising (by Kim Meeder)
7 Women (by Eric Metaxas)
7 Men (by Eric Metaxas)
Forgive, Let Go, and Live (by Deborah Smith Pegues)
Honey, We Need to Talk (by David E. Clarke)
The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert (by Rosaria Champagne Butterfield)
Your Teenager Is Not Crazy (by Dr.

Topics: Family and Home Tags: faith, family, marriage, parenting January 5, 2018 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

Helping Your Child Navigate the Tech Landscape

I’ll never forget the day I got my driver’s license. It was all I could talk about for an entire year before. It was a time-honored tradition back then: do whatever necessary to get your license by the time you’re fifteen, no later than sixteen. That little plastic ID got me and my friends out of the house and enabled us to hang out with each other whenever and wherever we wanted. My driver’s license was key to my social world.

Topics: Family and Home Tags: broadcast, family, kids, parenting, technology January 4, 2018 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

Two Questions to Help You Get Control of 2018

According to billionaire Richard Branson, the secret to making and keeping your New Year’s resolutions is a pen and piece of paper.

“It’s time to get your New Year’s resolutions down on paper,” he recently wrote. “The simple act of writing it down will help you stick to it. Share your goals with your family and friends but ultimately it’s down to you to make your resolution happen in 2018.”

Goal-setting can be very effective, but as we head off into an uncharted new year, I want to ask you a related question, but with a twist:

What if you made a commitment this year to STOP doing so many things?

Topics: Current Events/ Family and Home Tags: events, family January 3, 2018 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

So You Want to Do Devotions with Your Little One

Chuck Colson once said to me, “By age 10, your children’s moral compass is pretty well set.”

His wisdom confirmed what Jean and I already believed from our earliest days of parenting: we only had a few short years to impart biblical wisdom and a love for Jesus to our two boys. It’s a task that we’ve taken seriously ever since. But we also discovered early that “serious” doesn’t have to mean “dull” or “boring.”

Thankfully, there’s no magical “one way” for moms and dads to pass their faith on to their children.

Topics: Family and Home Tags: broadcast, faith, family, parenting January 2, 2018 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

Serving God with What You Have

Helen Keller once said, “The only thing worse than blindness is having sight but no vision.”

Scripture says that we lose our way without vision (Proverbs 29:18).

Vision is the ability to focus your attention on God’s plan and his ability to accomplish it. God calls each of us to a vision that is bigger than us. He invites us into things that require the best of us and that will outlive us.

What is that “thing” for you?

Topics: Family and Home Tags: broadcast, faith, family January 1, 2018 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

Focus on the Family Best Seller List

Jase and Missy Robertson Talk About Finding God in Our Pain

Expressing Pro-Life Views in a Winsome Way

A Quadriplegic, Cancer-Surviving Woman Talks About God and Suffering

Teaching Your Children to Handle Money Well

Focus on the Family Best Seller List

Helping Your Child Navigate the Tech Landscape

Two Questions to Help You Get Control of 2018

So You Want to Do Devotions with Your Little One

Serving God with What You Have

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