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Building a Solid Christian Worldview

Your worldview is important. It helps you answer life’s most basic questions:

Creation – How things began.Fall – What’s gone wrong with the world.Redemption – The solution for fixing what’s gone wrong with the world.Restoration – What the world will look like once redemption has taken place.

Whether you realize it or not, you do have a worldview. You either fill in the blanks with random answers, or you seek truth like you’re assembling a jigsaw puzzle, thoughtfully and carefully putting small pieces of information together to form a bigger, unified picture of reality.

Topics: Uncategorized Tags: faith March 14, 2022 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

Seeing Suffering Through God’s Eyes

Someone once said, “The hardest thing that I’ve ever heard was that my child died. The hardest thing that I’ve ever done is live every day since.”

Levi and Jennie Lusko are the founders and lead pastors of Fresh Life Church, a multi-site ministry located in Montana, Wyoming, Oregon, and Utah. In December of 2012, five days before Christmas, they were enjoying a weekly date-night while a relative watched their children. When the Luskos arrived to pick up their children, five-year-old Lenya was having a severe asthma attack.

Topics: Uncategorized Tags: faith March 9, 2022 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

Finding God’s Purpose in Adversity

As I’ve shared before, I’ve had to overcome adversity. My dad died an alcoholic, and my stepdad walked out on my siblings and me the day of my mother’s funeral. To be honest, although I usually end up with greater faith after encountering challenge or loss, the journey there isn’t always easy.

Daniel Ritchie has a unique perspective about what it’s like to experience a deeper connection with God through adversity. He was born without arms and struggled to breathe on his own.

Topics: Uncategorized Tags: faith March 2, 2022 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

Embracing God’s Truth in a Hostile Culture

I’ve seen government overreach and oppression firsthand. I was in Moscow in August of 1991 when President Mikhail Gorbachev was placed under house arrest. It was a failed coup attempt orchestrated by hardline communists who opposed his ideas for reform. Russian citizens were told that Gorbachev was ill. In reality, he was being held hostage.

I’ve been in other countries who closely monitored the Christian church and limited their freedoms. These governments only tolerated so much before cracking down and silencing any expression of faith.

Topics: Uncategorized Tags: faith, pop culture February 17, 2022 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

Enough is Enough – Let Children Take off their Masks

Pressure is mounting on elected officials to lift mask mandates in schools wherever they still exist – and it’s not a moment too soon.

Thanks to heavy-hand government bureaucrats, children have been forced to endure face coverings in the classroom for up to two years. Abnormality has become institutionalized.

Enough is enough. With their parents’ permission, it’s past time to allow children to take their masks off and live like normal human beings again.

Mask wearing was implemented to slow or prevent the spread of COVID-19, but numerous studies have been released calling into question the efficacy of face coverings altogether.

Topics: Uncategorized Tags: faith, kids February 15, 2022 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

Showing True Love to Your Spouse

No word defines marriage quite like the word love. But what is love, really? Is it simply an emotion we feel? Or is it something deeper?

In some ways, it’s no surprise that we struggle to understand love. The word we use has become such a generic term that the richness of its meaning is often lost. That’s because in English there’s one word for love with a full spectrum of nuance. You can say, “I love my spouse,” and in the next breath say, “I love potato chips.” Same word.

Topics: Uncategorized Tags: faith, marriage February 14, 2022 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

Improving Your Sex Life to Improve Your Marriage

What kind of “sex-pectations” do you and your spouse have?

In the book Married Sex: A Christian Couple’s Guide to Reimagining Your Love Life, co-authors Gary Thomas and Debra Fileta define “sex-pectations” as beliefs about sex that couples have going into marriage.

Those expectations can often be unhealthy, shaped more by Hollywood than God’s Word. Aligning expectations with reality can be challenging for a couple. A great place to start is adopting a biblical perspective of sex and understanding the benefits of a healthy sex life to a couple’s relationship.

Topics: Uncategorized Tags: faith, marriage February 10, 2022 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

A Conversation with a “Mama Bear”

It was a great privilege to spend some time last week with our friends at the Virginia Family Foundation – an organization we’ve been proud to partner with over the past few decades.

During our time in Richmond, I had the opportunity to speak with Victoria Cobb, the foundation’s president – and Laura Murphy, a Virginia “Mama Bear” who was instrumental in confronting a local school board about inappropriate material in her child’s classroom.

I’m so grateful for Victoria and her team – and all the family policy councils across the country who champion family friendly policies.

Topics: Uncategorized Tags: faith, family February 9, 2022 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

Who is the Author of Your Faith

When was the last time you drove by a beautiful building and marveled? Not at the architecture. At the foundation.

Years ago, Focus on the Family added a new building to our campus right outside my office window. I got to watch the construction process unfold from the first shovelful of dirt until the final brick was mortared into place nearly a year later.

The biggest surprise for me came when I realized that the first four months of the project had been dedicated entirely to the foundation.

Topics: Uncategorized Tags: faith February 8, 2022 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

The Biblical Truths Your Kids Need to Know

What should be the main focus of parenting?

Scripture provides a clear job description for parents in Deuteronomy 6:7, which says “You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.”

Teaching your children God’s Word can happen in a structured setting like family devotions, but Scripture encourages parents to weave conversation about God into everyday life.

Topics: Uncategorized Tags: faith, parenting February 7, 2022 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura