Jim Daly

WATCH: American Resilience: A New Inspirational Video Series

Is all the bad news lately wearing you down? Are you eager to watch something uplifting, encouraging and God-honoring?

We have a new series just for you.

“American Resilience” is a newly-released video program from Focus on the Family’s The Daily Citizen. It promises to deliver inspiring and faith-filled comeback stories that should give you a smile.

In the first episode, we feature Colorado’s famed Flying W. Ranch, a 67-year-old tourist destination in Colorado Springs.

If you’re looking for a boost today – these next few minutes will lift your spirits:

If you don’t already follow The Daily Citizen on Facebook, I would encourage you to “like” us in order to see multiple updates per day on breaking news presented from a Christian worldview.

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Discovering the Truth About My Identity

A homosexual activist once asked me, “When are Christians going to leave behind their medieval beliefs about sexuality and come into the 21st century?”

He was referring to the Bible, of course – which confronts all of us with some pretty powerful ideas that are not always easily digestible.

So, I responded, “Christians are followers of the Bible, not editors. We’re compelled to follow God’s Word because it’s His truth, and we believe Jesus when He says the truth sets us free” (John 8:32).

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Hidden Gems

Today, on our Focus on the Family Broadcast, you’re in for a special treat. We’re airing an episode of our award-winning children’s radio drama Adventures in Odyssey.

Not only are these dramas one of the best things we do here at Focus to communicate the gospel message, they’re a lot of fun, too!

This episode is titled “Hidden Gems.” The story follows young Olivia as Whit teaches her why reading the Bible is important.

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A Father’s Lament: What Kind of Country are We Leaving Our Kids and Grandkids?

Since the first national Father’s Day in 1910, dads of every generation have wondered and worried about the future world in which their children would live.

Such concern is not entirely misplaced.

If you had become a father back at the time the holiday was first celebrated at a YMCA in Spokane, Wa., your kids would have had to navigate the Spanish flu (50 million deaths), World War I (20 million deaths) and the reprise of the KKK.

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Hooray for Dad

Men are important to families.

Dads model character for their daughters, shaping what they will seek in a future husband. Men model for sons how to be a committed husband, a loving father, and a man of integrity who guides his family according to biblical values.

Men don’t always hit the mark, of course. They get distracted by busy careers, the hard work often required to make ends meet, or too many hobbies and toys.

Which is why every man needs to be reminded from time to time that their wives and children deserve their best.

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Look to the Family for Answers in Our Current Crisis

Our hearts break for what the country is experiencing. From Monday’s Supreme Court ruling that added sexual orientation and gender identity to a list of protected classes in the 1964 Civil Rights Act, to ongoing racial tensions and continued physical and economic suffering related to COVID-19, we’re living through difficult days.

As president of a world-wide organization dedicated to the preservation of the home, and setting apart things like a virus, which are outside our control, I want to address what I believe is a major part of our problem – the breakdown of the nuclear family.

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Overcoming the Obstacles of Cerebral Palsy

Tyler Sexton has been an overcomer since the day he was born. So have his parents, Lisa and Kevin.

When Tyler was born at 28 weeks, doctors immediately placed him in an incubator and said, “We’re rushing him by helicopter to a hospital four hours away. His lungs will likely collapse, and there’s a chance that he could die mid-flight.” Tyler survived, but a long road that included 16 surgeries had just begun.

At 18 months, Tyler was diagnosed with cerebral palsy.

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6 Supreme Court Justices Brazenly Proclaim Themselves Legislators in Landmark Decision

I’m extremely disappointed to learn that the U.S. Supreme Court today took it upon itself to brazenly rewrite a federal employment statute to add sexual orientation and gender identity to a list of protected classes contained in the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

When that landmark civil rights statute was enacted by duly elected representatives of the people, Congress never imagined or intended that “sex” meant anything other than biological males and females.

Yet in this opinion six justices have done what Congress never intended to do and has explicitly rejected many times over the years since 1964.

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The Secret to Being a Happy Wife

What’s the secret to being a happy wife?

Is it expecting more from your marriage? Expecting less? Does happiness come from working hard? Or from feeling content with what you have?

Author Jen Weaver – and my wife, Jean – say balance is important. They’re both guests on our Focus on the Family Broadcast “The Secret to Being a Happy Wife.”

There’s good and bad to having too-high or too-low expectations.

Jen is a self-admitted “high-expectant wife” who had a lot of ideas about how her marriage could and should operate.

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Pursuing Our Untamable God

In The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis, we’re introduced to Aslan, a great lion who rules Narnia.

Susan, a little girl who stumbles into the enchanted world through a magic wardrobe, asks Mr. Beaver if Aslan is safe.

“Safe?” Mr. Beaver replies. “Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good. He’s the King.”

God, whom Aslan symbolizes, isn’t safe, either. We never know when or how God will show up in our lives.