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Bring Your Bible to School Day 2017 Update: Close to 500K Students Brought Hope to the Nation!

“How did it go?”

It’s a question we’ve been asked many times since Oct. 5 – the day close to 500,000 students across the nation in all 50 states celebrated the fourth annual Bring Your Bible to School Day. Well, I’m proud to give you an update.

But first, let’s remember back to what was happening at the beginning of the month. Many people in the U.S. were worried were worried about family members in Mexico after the country’s two big earthquakes and in Puerto Rico after the catastrophic Hurricane Maria.

Topics: Focus Events Tags: events, faith, kids, religious liberty October 24, 2017 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

Three Things Martin Luther Teaches Us about Marriage

The 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation is fast approaching. On Reformation Day, we remember how Martin Luther, a German monk, nailed his 95 Theses on the door of a Wittenberg church on Oct. 31, 1517.

But while Martin Luther is closely associated with his opposition to selling indulgences – monetary payments to receive forgiveness for sin – fewer people today know he was also instrumental in helping change the way Christians look at marriage.

Before the Reformation took place, celibate service to God was often seen as the highest calling.

Topics: Current Events Tags: events, faith, marriage October 18, 2017 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

What to Do When Life Knocks You Down

What do you do when you’re at the top of the world one minute and scraping the bottom of the barrel the next?

Former major league pitcher Brian Holman has had to answer that very question … many times.

In 1999, his son David fell thirty feet from a ski-lift and suffered multiple severe injuries. When he got to the hospital, doctors ran an MRI and discovered David had a brain tumor. They successfully removed it, but David had a post-surgical stroke and needed extensive rehab to recover.

Topics: Family and Home Tags: broadcast, faith October 6, 2017 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

How Martin Luther Changed the World

Do you know the significance of a man named Martin Luther?

If the first thing that comes to mind is the “I Have a Dream” speech, you’re thinking of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

That’s a common mistake. Martin Luther isn’t exactly a household name to some, but he is an influential figure in world history. In fact, some say he’s as historically relevant as Abraham Lincoln or Julius Caesar. Yet, most Christians know very little about him – or nothing at all.

Topics: Current Events Tags: broadcast, events, faith October 3, 2017 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

Guiding Your Young Adult to a Vibrant Faith

A young man named Billy Riley was in a philosophy program at a small liberal arts college in western Pennsylvania. His Human Origins class offered some of the greatest challenges a Christian student could ever face. Not only was he confronted with opposing worldviews, but his professor was biased in his teaching approach.

Billy was mature enough in his faith that he befriended the professor. They had great conversations and vigorous debate after each class. They eventually put together a school symposium on the existence of God.

Topics: Family and Home Tags: broadcast, faith, parenting October 2, 2017 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

Doing These Two Things Will Deepen Your Family’s Faith

I want to share two practical opportunities with you that are guaranteed to positively impact your family’s faith.

The first one will take place from Tuesday, Oct. 3, to Thursday, Oct. 5, at 7 p.m. each night at almost 800 theaters around the country – and that’s the debut of the movie “MULLY.”

As you may know, “MULLY” is the incredible true story of Charles Mully, who went from being an abandoned child living on the streets to a multi-millionaire businessman and entrepreneur – and who gave it all up to save more than 12,000 children who were living on the streets of Kenya.

Topics: Focus Events Tags: events, faith, pro-life September 27, 2017 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

Tips to Build Your Child’s Faith Foundation

What do you do in the car with your kids? What about at breakfast or at the dinner table? How about in the backyard when you’re throwing the ball with your boys or playing “chase” with your daughters?

Scripture provides a great idea in Deuteronomy 6:6-7:

“And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. 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” (ESV).

Topics: Family and Home Tags: broadcast, faith, parenting September 25, 2017 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

Help Your Children Build a Strong Faith

Yesterday I shared with you why it’s more important than ever for public school students to participate in this year’s “Bring Your Bible to School Day,” the Focus on the Family-sponsored and student-led free speech event.

#BringYourBible has grown exponentially since we originally launched it in 2014: The first year, 8,000 students participated. The second year, 155,000. Last year, over 355,000. This year, we’re hoping 500,000 students will bring their Bible to school and will share and read Scripture with their friends during appropriate times, like before and after school, during recess or lunch, etc.

Topics: Focus Events Tags: broadcast, events, faith, parenting, religious liberty September 21, 2017 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

He Experienced God’s Grace As the Towers Were Falling

Where were you on 9/11?

If you’re old enough to remember that Tuesday, I’m sure that question instantly brings an answer to your mind.

It was early in the morning here in Colorado when the news broke. I had been having devotions and turned on the television just before the second plane hit the World Trade Center. Like everybody else, I spent the rest of the day glued to the television, watching one of the most epic and tragic moments in American history unfold.

Topics: Current Events Tags: broadcast, faith, news September 11, 2017 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

Jesus Through the Eyes of a Fisherwoman

“What would Jesus do?”

Remember that pop-culture phenomenon from a few years back? Lots of people wore “WWJD?” bracelets and T-shirts or slapped a sticker on their car bumper.

It’s too bad that such a deep and meaningful question has become better identified with trinkets and deprecating parody than with life-changing self-reflection.

We’ve sanitized the gospels.

To answer what Jesus would do requires a closer examination of the life He led and the gritty world in which He lived.

Topics: Family and Home Tags: broadcast, faith September 5, 2017 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura