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When it Comes to Abortion, Senators Elizabeth Warren and Robert Menendez Embrace Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals”

It’s been just over two months since the Supreme Court’s 5-4 vote reversing Roe and sending the issue of abortion back to the states – and propelling abortion activists into full-fledged panic mode.

Earlier this summer, Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Robert Menendez (D-NJ) introduced a bill that’s ironically called the “Stop Anti-Abortion Disinformation Act” – legislation that’s supposedly going to address false advertising from pregnancy resource centers. The bill calls on the Federal Trade Commission to issue rules “prohibiting disinformation in the advertising of abortion services.”

Only these clinics don’t deceive women at all – they simply educate, inform, and ensure that mothers are aware of the full range of assistance that exists for them and their baby.

If there’s any “deception” it comes from the abortion lobby and abortion mills like Planned Parenthood.

Topics: Family and Home Tags: pro-life August 30, 2022 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

They Mean Well

The best way to build a happy marriage is to do what happy couples do. And what’s the number one thing happy couples do? According to research, they trust in each other’s love.

That means happy couples trust that their spouse means well even when they communicate poorly or make a mistake: they didn’t do something thoughtful when they had the chance. Or they didn’t mention an online purchase they made. Or they worked late and didn’t call to let you know.

Topics: Family and Home August 30, 2022 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

Building a Bridge to Forgiveness

Popular author and relationship expert Dr. Gary Chapman illustrates conscience as a five-gallon bucket strapped to our backs. Doing wrong against our spouse or anyone else is like pouring in a measure of liquid.

After a few mistakes, the burden we carry gets heavier. After a few more, heavier still. Eventually, our conscience becomes so full, so heavy to bear, that the contents spill out in unhelpful ways, on us and our spouse.

In Acts 24:16 of the King James Bible, the apostle Paul says of himself: “And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.”

The word “exercise” is the Greek word gymnaso, from which we get the English word, “gymnasium.” The word can also be translated as “discipline.”

Paul says, “I discipline myself.” To do what?

Topics: Family and Home Tags: faith August 30, 2022 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

Celebrating The Bodies God Gave Us

In junior high school, I was embarrassed to go to swim class because everybody pointed out the freckles that covered the back of my legs.

For many children, teasing begins in elementary school.

And thanks to social media, the ridicule no longer ends at the classroom door.

On our Focus on the Family Broadcast “Celebrating the Bodies God Gave Us,” we’re talking with Justin and Lindsey Holcomb about how to help your children embrace the knowledge that they’re made in the image of God.

Topics: Family and Home August 29, 2022 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

Overcoming Barriers

One of the most important qualities to being an effective parent is a willingness to overcome personal barriers that get in our way. My own dad provides a sobering example of how destructive it can be when a parent stays stuck.

One of the few times he showed up to one of my baseball games, he was stone-cold drunk. When I came to bat, I was so mortified I couldn’t move. Dad yelled awful things at the umpire as pitch after pitch zipped past me.

Topics: Family and Home Tags: faith August 29, 2022 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

Clearing Out the Clutter

Years ago, when Jean and I moved into our current home, the truck was unloaded, and we pulled the lid off each box one by one and looked through every item.

So much stuff went into the trash that I thought it would be helpful to get one of those big trash bins used at construction sites. It was fantastic. I was throwing stuff away left and right.

That’s when the trash fairies showed up.

I’d spend an evening happily tossing one item after another into the garbage.

Topics: Family and Home Tags: faith August 26, 2022 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

Nucleus of the Family

For decades, sociologists have been telling us how important it is for children to feel loved and cared for. Proof of that concept came in the 1990s after a political revolution in Romania. Over 170,000 abandoned infants, toddlers, and teenagers were housed in a network of government-run institutions known as “child gulags.” The children were provided with food, but very few received loving touch or attention. Most of the children never knew what it was like to love or to be loved.

Topics: Family and Home Tags: family August 26, 2022 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

Stay on the Path

A man who knows that well is Tim Leatherman, the inventor of the Leatherman Tool. That’s a pair of pliers with additional tools stored in the handles, like screwdrivers, a saw, wire cutters, and a bottle opener. It’s like a Swiss Army knife that converts into a tool belt.

Tim came up with the idea during a vacation to Europe in 1975. Travelling on a budget, he rented the cheapest car he could afford. It broke down repeatedly throughout the trip.

Topics: Family and Home Tags: faith August 25, 2022 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

Behind the Cardboard Sign

What does a hero look like to you? Would you recognize one just by looking?

In comic books, heroes are easy to spot. They wear a mask or a cape and have superhuman abilities. In the real world, heroes often carry a badge and are trained to save lives. Then there are heroes like Darin Barton.

Darin was standing on a highway overpass in Denver, Colorado when a semi-trailer barreling out of control plowed into stalled traffic below him.

Topics: Family and Home Tags: faith August 24, 2022 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

Look Back to Move Forward

The great Winston Churchill once said, “Those who are unable to look back are unable to look forward.” For America to move into the future with our liberty intact, we must look backward and remember the principles of freedom upon which our country was built.

Looking backward is how Abraham Lincoln led America through the Civil War, one of our country’s darkest, most divisive, and bloodiest time periods. To keep the nation pointed in the right direction, Lincoln continually reminded the country of our noble beginnings.

Topics: Family and Home Tags: faith August 23, 2022 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura