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Last week I mentioned my scheduled appearance on the Fox News Channel program Huckabee. I thought some of you might want to see the finished product.
In a segment called “Keeping the Focus on the Family,” I discuss the ministry’s evolving role in the community and my new book, Stronger: Trading Brokenness for Unbreakable Strength (David C Cook, September 2010).
You can watch the clip here.
Let me know what you think.
Topics: Family and Home Tags: events, staff by Jim Daly with Paul Batura
He was born Allan Stewart Konigsberg, a Jewish son of Nettie and Martin, and raised on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
As a child, he sparred with his tough-minded mother, who worked in a delicatessen at the same time his father toiled away as an accountant. There was always tension in the family, a functional dysfunction. His parents didn’t get along, and they stumbled through a rocky marriage.
As a young boy, Allan attended Hebrew school for eight years, spoke Yiddish and found his niche making people laugh, most likely out of self-preservation and as a way to make sense of the senseless.
Topics: Family and Home Tags: faith by Jim Daly with Paul Batura
Where and how do your children learn best? When it comes to optimal learning environments and personal study habits, most of us have assumed that a concentrated session, in a quiet room, is the most effective way to learn.
Not according to the research: Varying the type of material studied in a single sitting — alternating, for example, among vocabulary, reading and speaking in a new language — seems to leave a deeper impression on the brain than does concentrating on just one skill at a time.
Topics: Family and Home Tags: kids, parenting by Jim Daly with Paul Batura
Just a quick note:
I would appreciate your prayers for my upcoming trip to New York City and an appearance on FOX News.
I’m privileged to be scheduled to join former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee tomorrow, Saturday September 18th, on his popular television program.The show airs on FOX News at 8:00 PM EDT.
Would love to have you tune in! Among the topics to be discussed during the interview will be my latest book, Stronger: Trading Brokenness for Unbreakable Strength (David C Cook, September 2010).
Topics: Family and Home Tags: events, staff by Jim Daly with Paul Batura
As promised, here is the first chapter of my new book, Stronger: Trading Brokenness for Unbreakable Strength.
Thanks for reading along!
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Chapter 1: When I Am Weak
This isn’t how it works in the movies.
On a chilly Sunday morning in December, David Works and his family—his wife, Marie, and daughters Stephanie, Laurie, Rachel, and Grace—finish worshipping at New Life Church in Colorado Springs.
As usual, they stay after the service to enjoy conversation with friends.
Topics: Family and Home Tags: faith, family, promos by Jim Daly with Paul Batura
“Writing a book is an adventure,” wrote Winston Churchill.
“To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him out to the public.”
Leave it to Sir Winston Churchill to paint a colorful picture with words.
On a related note, the mistress crack notwithstanding, today is September 1st, the official release date of my new book, written with Jim Lund, from Cook Communications, Stronger: Trading Brokenness for Unbreakable Strength.
Topics: Family and Home Tags: events, family by Jim Daly with Paul Batura
“Writing a book is an adventure,” wrote Winston Churchill.
“To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him out to the public.”
Leave it to Winston Churchill to paint a colorful picture with words.
But on a related note, the mistress crack notwithstanding, today is September 1st, the official release date of my new book from Cook Communications, Stronger: Trading Brokenness for Unbreakable Strength.
Topics: Family and Home Tags: faith, family by Jim Daly with Paul Batura
What parent wants to deliberately hold his or her child back?
According to an essay in this past Friday’s Wall Street Journal, quite a few.
Writing on the Opinion page of the Weekend Journal, Bostonian Jennifer Graham points to a growing trend of parents who are deciding to keep their child back a year or two, for all kinds of reasons. Some do so because they think their children aren’t quite ready, be it academically, emotionally or even athletically.
Topics: Family and Home Tags: kids, parenting by Jim Daly with Paul Batura
The calendar still suggests summer, but in certain parts of the country, there is a touch of fall in the air. Here in Colorado Springs, we had our first 40 degree night in months just yesterday.
There is another sign of the coming change: in our family, the boys have headed back to school. Trent is now in the 4th grade and his younger brother, Troy, started 2nd.
I am grateful, of course, to see our boys grow and mature.
Topics: Family and Home Tags: family, parenting by Jim Daly with Paul Batura
Just an FYI: I have a new book coming out September 1st.
It’s called Stronger: Trading Brokenness for Unbreakable Strength.
The content comes straight from my heart, dealing with the challenges associated with embracing the hardships of life in order to learn what God would teach us through tough times.
The book is filled with incredible stories of people who have faced some very difficult hurdles. I’ll be sharing some of it in this space, but it’ll be available through Focus on the Family or wherever books are sold.
Topics: Family and Home Tags: events, faith, staff 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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