Jim Daly

Walking Through Grief with Your Children

Kathleen Fucci met, John, her future husband, on a blind date. She was 38-years-old at the time, had never been married, and didn’t have children.

The mutual friend who arranged their date began his description of John by saying, “Um … why don’t you sit down?”

He told Kathleen that John was a widower with three children. His wife, Jeanine, had died from cancer the year before at the age of 34.

Despite the uncertainty Kathleen and John felt going into that first encounter, their relationship blossomed.

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Help and Hope for Separated Couples

Dr. Gary Chapman never asks troubled couples, “Do you want to work on your marriage?”

Wanting something is a function of the emotions, and emotions rely on desire to get things moving.

That’s why Dr. Chapman asks troubled couples, “Will you work on your marriage?” The will involves decisions, not feelings. If a couple can say yes to that question, then good things can happen with the right guidance.

Some couples are headed for a divorce because they don’t know any other way to resolve their conflict.

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Iceland Aborts Nearly 100 Percent of Babies with Down Syndrome

According to CBS News, the country of Iceland is eradicating Down syndrome – through abortion.

Of course, Iceland isn’t eradicating the condition at all but, instead eliminating babies with the condition.

For years now, we’ve known about the growing genocide of these children both here in the United States as well as all across the globe. In the U.S., it’s estimated that nearly 70 percent of children who receive a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome are aborted.

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Talking to Your Kids about Racism and Violence

The recent images from Charlottesville, VA—marches by torchlight, Nazi salutes, armed militia, angry mobs engaged in violent confrontation—are scary for adults to encounter, let alone children. These are not scenes from a movie but very real events unfolding right before our eyes.

The chaos in Charlottesville was fueled by a particularly insidious and evil form of racism known as white supremacy. It was the same in Charleston, South Carolina when a white supremacist murdered nine people during a church service in 2015, and in Overland Park, Kansas when a KKK sympathizer murdered three people near a Jewish community center in 2014.

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Looking For My Old Teachers on Facebook

Sharing a blog post from a few years back… the sentiments are the same, and the content is timely given the start of school for many kids around the nation. -J.D.

Summertime is drawing to a close, so I’ve been thinking about some of my favorite teachers from down through the years. I have many; here are memories of just a few.

In kindergarten there was Mrs. Smith. I went to school that first day with my heels in the pavement and then didn’t want to leave by the time the bell began to ring.

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Jesus’ Model for Leading Our Families

How do you define success?

Everybody probably has a slightly different answer. The late Zig Ziglar once said that whatever else success may be, you can’t truly be successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.

Mark 8:36 says, “For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?”

We’re all pulled in different directions, and we can easily lose sight of what’s most important in life.

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VIDEO: A Big-Hearted Seamstress Saves the (Wedding) Day

Brides around the country are scrambling to find new wedding dresses after Alfred Angelo, a bridal gown chain, filed for bankruptcy and closed its stores without warning – leaving many of its bridal gown and bridesmaid orders unfulfilled.

It’s a nightmare for women who, in some cases, paid for gowns they won’t receive.

But some Alfred Angelo brides in Oklahoma City found out their wedding day dreams will be saved by a big-hearted seamstress who contracted with the local store.

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Strategies for Planning Your Retirement

When do you plan to retire?

Notice I didn’t ask, “When do you hope to retire?”

According to financial planner Chris Hogan, retirement is a function of our finances, not our age. And good financial strategies are all about telling your money where to go instead of wondering where it went.

Chris helps people learn how to do that by boosting their “Retirement IQ” with these three questions:

How much money do you want to live on per month?

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What Every Father Must Teach His Son

It was one of those terrible headlines you didn’t want to click on:

“Teens filmed, mocked man as he drowned, police say”

Jamel Dunn, 32, drowned on July 9th off the coast of Cocoa, Florida, while several teenaged boys looked on. Mr. Dunn was disabled, and at no point did the teenagers even try calling for help. Authorities who subsequently interviewed the boys reported that it seemed they didn’t have any regret over their behavior.

It’s hard to fathom how hard the hearts of these boys must be to watch a man die and do nothing to help him.

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How to Get Unstuck from Complicated Relationships

Are you stuck?

A lot of us are. We’ve got a friend … a spouse … an in-law … a coworker who is tough to be around. And we want to get unstuck.

But we don’t know how.

On our radio program today and tomorrow is Dr. Daniel Nehrbass, who will share more in-depth about the nine choices you can make to change the course of the complicated relationships in your life:

Listen
Emotional appeal
Teaching
Boundaries
Compromise
Sacrifice
Leaving
Repent of your role in the relationship
Do nothing

Each of these nine have what Dr.

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