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How Can Hospitality Help Share the Gospel?

Sometimes it’s the littlest things we do that speak the loudest.

Take my colleague, Glenn Stanton. Glenn heads up our family formation studies. He’s the quintessential researcher, citing studies on marriage and family, speaking at universities, and engaging with experts across the political and ideological spectrum.

A few months ago, Glenn invited Jonathan Rauch, a well-known advocate of gay marriage, to speak to the staff at Focus on the Family. This was a good time for people on two different sides of an important issue to meet, share their views, respectfully challenge each other’s assertions, and walk away better informed about the complexities that surround this issue.

Topics: Family and Home Tags: faith, friendship July 29, 2013 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

To Moms Who’ve Received a Prenatal Down Syndrome Diagnosis

Each year, thousands of pregnant couples throughout the U.S. find out through prenatal testing that the child they’re expecting has Down syndrome. For most of those parents, receiving this news is a seismic event that up-ends many of the hopes and dreams they’ve held for their child. In the confusion and fear that surrounds such a diagnosis many parents choose, sadly, to end the pregnancy.

Lauren Warner is a young mom and blogger with a personal take on Down syndrome.

Topics: Family and Home Tags: faith, parenting July 17, 2013 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

What Kind of Person Are You?

Do you know yourself?

Blaise Pascal once said, “There are two kinds of men, the righteous who believe themselves sinners: the rest, sinners, who believe themselves righteous.”

C.S. Lewis agreed. “When a man is getting better,” he once wrote, “he understands more and more clearly the evil that is left in him. When a man is getting worse, he understands his own badness less and less. A moderately bad man knows he’s not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he’s all right.”

At the very core of Christianity is an understanding of our own inadequacy.

Topics: Family and Home Tags: faith July 9, 2013 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

On Vacations and Rest

Summer is officially here, and along with it traditionally comes a season when many families take time to vacation and be together to rest, regroup and have some fun.

I say “traditionally” because such vacations may be becoming increasingly rare.

There are no legally mandated paid holidays in the United States, but many businesses and organizations do offer their workers paid time off as part of their compensation package. However, Americans leave as many as 175 million available vacation days unused in the typical year.

Topics: Family and Home Tags: faith, finances, kids, marriage, parenting July 2, 2013 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

Why Orthodox Christians Should Appreciate an Unorthodox Bono

Editor’s Note: Today’s Washington Post features an op-ed (below) from Jim Daly reflecting on his interview with Bono. To hear the entire Focus on the Family interview, please click here.

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Why Orthodox Christians Should Appreciate an Unorthodox Bono

By Jim Daly, Updated: June 25, 2013

Recently, I had the chance to interview U2 front man Bono for a Focus on the Family broadcast airing June 25. To be sure, Bono is a unique rock star, as well-known for his activism in helping the people society often overlooks – the poorest of the poor, and those living with HIV and other diseases – as he is for his music.

Topics: Family and Home Tags: broadcast, faith, pop culture June 25, 2013 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

Bono in the Spotlight

By now you may have heard that Bono will be our special guest on tomorrow’s broadcast.

Yes, you read that correctly. It so happens that the famed rock star and human rights activist is also a committed Christian. In fact, it’s his faith that motivates him to help those in extreme poverty and living with HIV/AIDS.

The interview may not have aired yet, but various media outlets are already abuzz with the news. I wanted to share three articles about the interview with you.

Topics: Family and Home Tags: broadcast, faith June 24, 2013 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

Dr. Al Mohler Remembers His Father

If you’ve followed the ministry of Focus on the Family with any regularity over the past few years, you’ve probably heard me talk about the difficulties I encountered growing up—especially as they relate to my alcoholic father, who essentially abandoned our family when I was very young. That painful experience impacted and shaped my life in profound ways.

Unfortunately, my situation is not unique. Millions of kids today grow up without a father in their lives.

Topics: Family and Home Tags: faith, kids, parenting June 20, 2013 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

These Things I’ll Remember

Yesterday was Father’s Day. For those keeping score at home, it was the 113th anniversary of the holiday, a day that finds its origin in the genius of a woman named Sonora Smart Dodd.

Ironically, Mrs. Dodd was inspired to set aside the day to honor her own father while listening to a sermon on Mother’s Day in Spokane, Washington. It was May of 1909. The first Father’s Day celebration was held the next June 19th, 1910.

Topics: Family and Home Tags: faith, kids, parenting June 17, 2013 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

Bring the Books!

Looking to justify setting aside some time for summer reading?

Charles Spurgeon on Books and Reading:

We will look at [Paul’s] books. We do not know what the books were about, and we can only form some guess as to what the parchments were. Paul had a few books which were left, perhaps wrapped up in the cloak, and Timothy was to be careful to bring them. Even an apostle must read.

Some of our very ultra Calvinistic brethren think that a minister who reads books and studies his sermon must be a very deplorable specimen of a preacher.

Topics: Family and Home Tags: church, faith June 11, 2013 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

Is It Time to Break Your Dreams Free?

Do you have ambitions you’ve kept hidden from everyone around you? Maybe it’s time to break them free from the shelter you’ve built to protect them.

Had you been walking by Henry Ford’s Detroit home that summer day in 1896, you might have thought he’d lost his mind. There he was, ax in hand, chopping away at the doorframe and surrounding brick of his makeshift garage. What you actually would have been witnessing was history in the making.

Topics: Family and Home Tags: faith, technology June 10, 2013 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

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Jim-Daly 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.

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