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I want to tell you a story.
What follows is an example of how the sacrificial funds invested in the Lord’s ministry called Focus on the Family manifest themselves in the lives of those who live far beyond our walls here in Colorado Springs.
I want to tell you a story about a father and his son.
The dad’s name is Dave, and his college-aged boy goes by Pete.
Dave is a great father who, along his wife, Wendy, regularly and deliberately invest in the lives of their children.
Topics: Family and Home Tags: faith, family, marriage by Jim Daly with Paul Batura
Today was one of the more exciting days in Daly family history — the reason why all depends on who you ask.
My boys, Trent and Troy, quizzed early this morning about what they thought the highlight of their day was going to be, took nanoseconds to respond, “We’re going swimming!” It was a particularly joyous occasion for Trent, the fish of the family, since he hasn’t been able to hit the pool for a couple of months after breaking his wrist this summer.
Topics: Family and Home Tags: events, faith, pop culture by Jim Daly with Paul Batura
In the midst of your shopping, decorating, card writing and the cooking and baking – before you get frazzled and frayed in the days leading up to Christmas – I want to share an old story with you. In the telling, I pray you might allow it to influence your decisions and activities these next few weeks.
Some time ago there was an American missionary living in a very tiny African village. The young woman was a teacher who labored alongside the natives.
Topics: Family and Home Tags: entertainment, events, family by Jim Daly with Paul Batura
I have something neat to share with you. It should put a smile on your face and maybe even a spring in your step.
Would it surprise you to learn that several hundred people – and an additional 650 singers – recently stood in the middle of a big city department store listening with joy in their faces as the name of Jesus Christ was proudly proclaimed?
It’s true.
First, some background.
The Wanamaker Grand Court Organ, located at the Macy’s department store in Philadelphia, is the largest operational pipe organ in the world.
Topics: Family and Home Tags: events, faith, pop culture by Jim Daly with Paul Batura
I was only four years old on the night of Thursday, December 9, 1965 (45 years ago!), but to this day, I can tell you where I was and what I was doing – watching the debut of A Charlie Brown Christmas on CBS in our southern California home.
It was an instant hit, much to the surprise of network executives, but surely not to me. (I assumed the whole world was watching!) Creator Charles Schulz argued with the bosses at CBS over a host of issues.
Topics: Family and Home Tags: entertainment, faith, pop culture by Jim Daly with Paul Batura
Pundits and analysts continue to weigh in on the recent Pew Report that concluded marriage is becoming increasingly obsolete and irrelevant.
As you can imagine, I hold to a significantly different perspective. Fortunately, many of you do as well. I’ve been particularly heartened by the robust response to my thoughts, which can be viewed by clicking here.
As I shared just a day after USA Today declared marriage to be going the way of powdered wigs, the report doesn’t quite tell the whole story.
Topics: Family and Home Tags: faith, marriage by Jim Daly with Paul Batura
Happy Thanksgiving!
The family and I are in California today. I pray that you and yours take every opportunity to give thanks to God for every good (and not so good) thing.
It seems appropriate to look back today, not just within our own families, but across the years to the beginning of America.
You may not be overly familiar with the name Nathaniel Morton. He was a nephew of Governor William Bradford and served as secretary of the Plymouth colony.
Topics: Family and Home Tags: events, faith, religious liberty by Jim Daly with Paul Batura
We’re headed to California today, to spend Thanksgiving with Jean’s mom and dad, and give Trent and Troy some much appreciated and cherished time with Grandma and Grandpa.
Fortunately, there’s no snow here in Colorado Springs or in Denver to slow departure – but west of here the mountains are getting blitzed with a heavy storm and gusty winds. The powder junkies should be in their glory – if they can make it up the interstate to the slopes.
Topics: Family and Home Tags: events, family, staff by Jim Daly with Paul Batura
In this week’s On Faith blog, the Washington Post’s Sally Quinn posed the following question to me and my fellow panelists:
In October 1789, President George Washington declared his support for a day of “public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God.”
Do you have a Thanksgiving blessing or prayer? What are you grateful for?
Here is how I responded:
It’s customary in our family to ask this very important question each year, and everybody usually groans and thinks it a chore.
Topics: Family and Home Tags: faith, family by Jim Daly with Paul Batura
Welcome to Thanksgiving Monday.
Do you ever feel like everyone has more than you?
On today and tomorrow’s Focus on the Family radio program you’ll have a chance to listen in on a conversation I had with one of the wealthiest women in the world.
No, not Oprah Winfrey or an heir to Bill Gates, Steve Jobs or Warren Buffet.
Her name is Susie Larson.
There was a time not too long ago when she had more bills than income and more mouths to feed than food.
Topics: Family and Home Tags: broadcast, kids, parenting 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.