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The wise person, as he grows older, must turn to the perfecting of his creative and appreciative abilities, which mellow and improve with age. He must take inventory of his personality, realizing that whatever it is now, so it will tend to be in later years, multiplied many times.
[If you want to grow older happily] Ask yourself these nine determinative questions:
Am I self-centered, or do I take other people’s needs and desires into account as well as my own?
Topics: Family and Home Tags: discipline, faith by Jim Daly with Paul Batura
Possibly one of the most devastating things that can happen to us as Christians is that we cease to expect anything to happen. This may be one of our greatest troubles today.We come to our services, and they are orderly, they are nice – we come, we go – and sometimes they are timed almost to the minute. But that is not Christianity, my friend. Where is the Lord of glory?
Where is the One sitting by the well?
Topics: Family and Home Tags: church, faith, family by Jim Daly with Paul Batura
If you had only a few minutes to gather up a few select treasures of your life before fleeing a raging inferno, what would you take – and what would you leave behind?
Families in Colorado Springs were faced with this very question this past Tuesday. In just a matter of minutes, a wildfire that had been contained in canyons bordering the city swept down through the hillsides. The sky, which had been sunny, turned red.
Topics: Family and Home Tags: family, news by Jim Daly with Paul Batura
In a post last week, I mentioned the many disasters that seemed to befall TV’s Brady family while on vacations. From losing Bobby in the Grand Canyon to getting locked in an old jailhouse, all on the same trip, one might be left with the impression that a family getaway is akin to playing with fire.
Why even bother going anywhere?
We go because trips can be a lot of fun. I have some great memories as a kid going from here to there in the car.
Topics: Family and Home Tags: entertainment, family, parenting by Jim Daly with Paul Batura
There were two dogs throughout my youth, a pug named Sir George and a Great Dane named Duke. I guess the Dalys felt a certain kinship to English royalty, even as I poured Kool-Aid over my Cheerios. (There wasn’t always enough money for milk.)
Duke and Sir George were my sister’s dogs and so in many ways, I had the best of both worlds. I enjoyed playing with them under the warm California sun, but never had to feed or tend to their needs.
Topics: Family and Home Tags: kids, parenting by Jim Daly with Paul Batura
It’s not a trick question. When it comes to two single people of the opposite sex sharing a meal or a movie together, when does it become a “date” – as opposed to just two people of the opposite sex sharing a meal or a movie together?
A group of my colleagues and I were talking about this the other day. The consensus seemed to be centered on the matter of money.
If the guy pays, it’s probably a date.
Topics: Family and Home Tags: intimacy, marriage by Jim Daly with Paul Batura
If you ingest a steady dose of daily news, it would be easy to grow weary of the din of the average day, the discordant sounds of a culture awash in controversy. An issue may startle and grab you, but just as soon as you begin to digest it, another wild and upsetting story comes along, like the rolling tide of a stormy sea.
I was thinking about this the other day, pondering how it’s possible that both the president of the United States and the House of Representatives support sex-selection abortion.
Topics: Family and Home Tags: kids, parenting, pop culture, pro-life by Jim Daly with Paul Batura
I was struck by this full-page ad that ran in this past Sunday’s New York Times.
The advertisement was placed in response to the current debate about banning oversized soft drinks in New York City. Coke used the placement to remind consumers they offer a variety of package sizes, including a 7.5 ounce “portion-control” can.
In thinking about Coke’s main message, “everything in moderation, except fun,” I got to thinking there’s a parallel to our Christian faith.
Topics: Family and Home Tags: entertainment, events by Jim Daly with Paul Batura
A heart-wrenching 10-minute video of 68-year-old bus monitor in upstate New York, Karen Klein, being bullied by middle school students has gone viral and is being played and replayed on cable news today.
In many ways, the video captures what is wrong with our culture. We see and hear students disrespecting an elder, hurling insults and horrible vulgarities. It is a microcosm of a broken system, of children running wild, at taxpayers’ expense, no less! We see Mrs.
Topics: Family and Home Tags: news by Jim Daly with Paul Batura
Although they’re fictitious characters, a good many people have been “raised” by fathers on TV, for good or bad. On the heels of Father’s Day this past Sunday, I thought it would be fun to ask you to share with me who your favorite television dad is – and why?
Here are some choices, in no particular order, but please feel free to write in a candidate of your choice:
Charles Ingalls (Michael Landon, Little House on the Prairie)
“Pa” was a man’s man, a rugged frontiersman who was as tender as he was tough.
Topics: Family and Home Tags: broadcast, entertainment by Jim Daly with Paul Batura
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.Home
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