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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
I am preparing to head to Seattle to participate in one of Focus on the Family’s Celebrate Family Tours. If you’re in the area, please know we’d love to have you join us. We’ll be at the Lynnwood Convention Center in Lynnwood, WA. Doors open at 6:30 tomorrow night, November 11th. Admission is free. Bring the whole family! It would be a treat to meet you.
Just a few thoughts prior to departure:
Today, November 10th, is the 235th birthday of the United States Marine Corps.
Topics: Family and Home Tags: broadcast, events by Jim Daly with Paul Batura
Life is beginning to return to normal in the Daly house following Tuesday’s historic election.
By “normal” I mean it’s been three days since our home phone rang five times during dinner with candidate robo-calls and our mailbox was overstuffed with campaign flyers!
The pundits will continue to analyze Tuesday’s results and draw their subjective conclusions. I have mine; you have yours. At a Wednesday press conference, President Obama qualified the outcome as a “shellacking” – a candid admission by any measure.
Topics: Current Events Tags: events, faith, policy, pop culture by Jim Daly with Paul Batura
Our team here at Focus on the Family has been working on a terrific contest to help celebrate the launch of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, a Focus Radio Theatre production based on the C.S. Lewis classic, The Chronicles of Narnia. Our award-winning Radio Theater weekly program has been rereleased to the national radio airwaves this fall.
As for the contest: I’d love to share some details about it with you and hope you’ll consider passing this blog on to your friends and family.
Topics: Focus Events Tags: entertainment, events, promos, staff by Jim Daly with Paul Batura
Have you voted yet?
If not, why not?
If you have, what was the scene like at your polling place? Or did you vote early or by mail this year?
I was thinking the other day about the first time I ever voted. It was in 1980 and I was living in California. I was 19 years-old. I pulled the lever that year for Ronald Reagan. You might think that was an easy decision, but at the time, I was faced with something of a personal dilemma.
Topics: Family and Home Tags: events, faith, policy by Jim Daly with Paul Batura
This coming Sunday is October 31st, a date of historical significance on several levels, depending upon your faith tradition and cultural upbringing.
To many Christians, October 31st is remembered and revered as “Reformation Day”, a key date in Church history. It was on the last day of October in 1517 when Martin Luther wrote a letter to the Catholic Archbishop of Mainz and Magdeburg, protesting, among other things, the sale of indulgences. He had other complaints, too, and what would become known as the “95 Theses” were nailed to the door of the Schlosskirche (Castle Church) in Wittenburg, Germany.
Topics: Family and Home Tags: entertainment, events, faith, parenting by Jim Daly with Paul Batura
Dr. Mildred Fay Jefferson died this past Friday. She was 84.
Born in Pittsburgh, Texas in 1926, Dr. Jefferson was the first African-American woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School (’51). She served as a surgeon at Boston University Medical Center and was a professor of surgery at the university’s medical school. She excelled in everything she pursued and ran in pretty high circles while doing it, but her greatest passion was for the very least among us: the unborn child.
Topics: Current Events Tags: events, faith, pro-life by Jim Daly with Paul Batura
I was driving home from the airport the other night when my cell phone rang. It was my sweet wife, Jean, calling, always a welcome occurrence, especially after a day away from home.
“Guess where we are?” she asked with a lilt and bit of play in her voice.
I didn’t want to say it, but I was thinking, I don’t want to guess … please tell me.
My suspicions were quickly confirmed.
“We’re at the emergency room again,” she said, “but this time it’s for Troy.”
I could tell by the tone of her voice that Troy wasn’t in any grave danger, but anytime your child requires professional medical attention there is always cause for concern.
Topics: Family and Home Tags: events, family, kids, parenting by Jim Daly with Paul Batura
GUEST BLOG
Catalyst 2010: A Movement of Restorers
Esther Fleece
Where can you find 13,000 multi-generational leaders who wholeheartedly desire to serve God’s purpose within their generation?
The Catalyst conference in Atlanta is a great place to start.
Thousands of “grass top” leaders gathered there last week, displaying a beautiful spirit of unity among evangelical subgroups.
It’s not an overstatement to suggest those in attendance are changing the world.
How?
One person at a time.
Groups like TOMS Shoes celebrated an incredible milestone of giving the one millionth pair of new shoes to a child in need.
Topics: Family and Home Tags: entertainment, events, faith, pop culture 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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