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Experiencing the Best Marriage for You and Your Spouse

According to some reports, Americans spent $72 billion on wedding ceremonies last year. That puts the average cost in the neighborhood of $30,000 per ceremony.

By contrast, most married couples will never invest a fraction of that amount into the marriage itself.

A successful marriage isn’t the by-product of an extravagant ceremony or an expensive honeymoon. If that were the case, celebrities would routinely set the standard for strong, healthy marriages.

A happy, fulfilling marriage isn’t about the big day, it’s about the every day.

Topics: Family and Home Tags: broadcast, faith, marriage, relationships, wife October 22, 2018 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

Discovering What It Means to Be a Man

In 1927, Charles Lindbergh became the first man to successfully fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. The flight took him thirty-three hours, thirty minutes and thirty seconds.

Lindbergh didn’t sleep for nearly 55 hours. His flight from New York to Paris required him to dodge storm clouds at 10,000 feet and skim over wave tops as low as 10 feet. He continually had to alter his altitude to keep ice from building on The Spirit of St.

Topics: Family and Home Tags: broadcast, faith October 18, 2018 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

Evangelism It’s Easier Than You Think

Jesus said to believers, “You are the salt of the earth,” and “You are the light of the world” (Matthew 5:13 and14, ESV).

What did Jesus mean? Lee Strobel – well-known as the former atheist who wrote the best-seller The Case for Christ – says that Jesus meant if you’re going to follow Him, make people thirst for God. Shine His message of hope, grace, love, redemption, and eternal life into areas of darkness and despair.

Topics: Family and Home Tags: broadcast, evangelism, faith October 16, 2018 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

Finding Hope and Healing After Losing a Child

There aren’t many things more devastating than losing a child.

Pam Vredevelt and her husband have endured the incredible pain and grief of losing two children.

After nine years of marriage, Pam became pregnant for the first time. The baby was developing right on schedule, but at a routine check-up, Pam’s doctor said, “I’m not seeing any heartbeat. I think the baby is dead.”

They had three more children after that. Their youngest, Nathan, was born with Down Syndrome.

Topics: Family and Home Tags: broadcast, faith, family, kids October 15, 2018 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

God’s Amazing, Unconditional Love

No one is beyond God’s reach.

Not even Kelly Stigliano. By age 13, she was sexually promiscuous and involved in divination, witchcraft, and the occult. She and her friends regularly smoke, drank, took drugs, held séances, and vandalized the neighborhood. By age 18, she was pregnant and suicidal.

Kelly married the father of her children and within two weeks she was caught in a cycle of abuse. At its worst, she begged her husband to kill her, so the abuse would end.

Topics: Family and Home Tags: broadcast, faith October 11, 2018 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

650K Students Set an Example for the Nation—One of Hope, not Division

While the national media focused on D.C.-based controversies and character smears last week, at least 650,000 students were busy setting a different kind of example in their schools.

Courageous youth—kindergarten through college age— celebrated Bring Your Bible to School Day, an annual, religious-freedom event for students sponsored by Focus on the Family on Thursday, Oct. 4.

They shared their faith by highlighting its source—the Bible, sharing God’s Word with classmates throughout the day and talking about their experience on social media using the hashtag #BringYourBible.

Topics: Current Events Tags: events, faith, kids, religious liberty October 10, 2018 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

Tackling Midlife Transitions in Marriage

When you first got married, did you assume your relationship with your spouse would remain pretty much the same from year to year? Many couples do. That’s probably why so many wind up shocked and utterly confused when life around them changes … and their marriage along with it.

According to our guests on today’s program, relationship experts Bill and Pam Farrel, the key is to recognize that changes are coming – probably sooner than we think – and to prepare for them.

Topics: Family and Home Tags: broadcast, faith, family, marriage, relationships October 9, 2018 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

Raising Daughters in God’s Wisdom

Being a parent takes wisdom, courage, and heart. And being the parent of a girl often requires an extra measure of love and tenderness.

Our next edition of the Focus on the Family Broadcast will encourage you to trust God with your daughter and equip you to help nurture her relationship with God, with her family, and with the world around her.

We’re airing a special conversation we recorded a few months ago with Jonathan and Wynter Pitts, parents of four girls.

Topics: Family and Home Tags: broadcast, faith, family, kids, parenting October 8, 2018 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

How to Positively Influence Your Husband

Is it possible to change your husband?

Well, yes and no.

Researcher John Gottman says that around 60 percent of the dynamics in a marriage will never change. When you marry somebody, you’re marrying them essentially as they are. A person who’s perpetually late may never care if they’re on time. A neat-freak will never feel comfortable with clutter.

Author Gary Thomas says that still leaves 40 percent for a relationship to grow, and for spouses to learn to approach their marriage in different ways.

Topics: Family and Home Tags: broadcast, faith, husband, marriage, relationships October 4, 2018 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

Tomorrow is Bring Your Bible to School Day

If you’ve followed this blog for a while you probably remember me telling you about Bring Your Bible to School Day, an annual Focus-sponsored event that empowers kids to celebrate religious freedom and share the love of God with their peers by doing one simple thing: bringing their Bibles to school with them! Just a couple of weeks ago, I told you that Sadie Robertson author of the best-selling book Live Fearless and formerly a teen star on Duck Dynasty is serving as this year’s Honorary Chairperson for BYBTS.

Topics: Current Events Tags: events, faith, kids, religious liberty October 3, 2018 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura