Jim Daly

Modern Christians are, let’s say, comfortable. We like our comfort zones, our religious routines and our focus on “doing right.”

But what if God is calling us to something more meaningful and challenging, like living a life of service, sacrifice, and forgiveness in a way that transforms the world?

Jesus was a radical. We don’t often think of Him that way. Modern society portrays Him as respectable and polite. But Jesus not only touched lepers, but He also drove corrupted merchants out of the temple with a whip made of cords.

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Here at Focus on the Family, we hear from parents who wonder how to guide their children through cultural messages about race and ethnicity that are often divisive and dehumanizing.

Author Trillia Newbell has a balanced, informed, and grace-filled approach. Despite the racism she’s experienced, she has learned to move through life with forgiveness, compassion, and understanding. But she also believes parents should prioritize teaching their kids proper views about race, saying, “Either we teach our children, or the culture will.”

Trillia is joining me on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly to help Christian parents teach their children a biblical perspective about racial unity.

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Kristen Hatton – counselor, author, and mom of three children – says there are two types of parenting:

Reactive Parenting. Mom and Dad respond to situations as they come up, without forethought.

Proactive Parenting. Mom and Dad seek to identify and prevent potential issues before they happen.

Number two is the best approach.

But how can parents intentionally influence their teenagers with biblical wisdom in the face of a culture whose values contradict God’s word?

Kristen is joing me on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly to help parents better understand how to convey God’s truth through everyday encounters.

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Everyday we’re encouraged to go out and change the world and make it a better place. But how can one person truly have a genuine impact?

I like the advice one woman gave to her six-year-old nephew when he asked her how to change the world. She told him to imagine a circle around him then said, “You change the world by doing what’s right in the three feet around you.”

That’s wisdom even a six-year-old can understand.

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Author Dave Willis witnessed the life-changing power of love on a visit to an orphanage in Guatemala called Casa Shalom, which means “house of peace.” The privately run Christian orphanage serves about a hundred kids at a time in a place where most orphanages are government-run and fraught with corruption. Some of the children served by Casa Shalom have been sex-trafficked, exploited by the very people who should have been protecting them.

On his first visit there, Dave was introduced to a young Guatemalan girl named Margarita.

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