Facing Mortality: Embracing Eternity (Part 2 of 2)
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 25 March 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Former Senator Ben Sasse shares about his recent cancer diagnosis, addressing human frailty and the reality of death, while accepting that God allows suffering. He also shares about redeeming the time by worshipping Jesus and loving your family in the time God has given you.
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| 0:31.9 | R.C. Sprole used to say there is no maverick molecule. God is not uncertain about anything that has happened, |
| 0:39.9 | is happening or will happen, and he will weave together that mosaic for our own good. |
| 0:45.6 | God loves his church and those Christians that he has written into eternity, he will use this for good. |
| 0:55.6 | That's former U.S. Senator Ben Sasse last time on this broadcast, sharing about God's |
| 1:01.0 | sovereignty in everything, especially in difficult situations, and in his case, a recent |
| 1:07.3 | terminal cancer diagnosis. This is Focus on the Family with Jim Daly, and if you didn't hear the conversation last time, |
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| 1:18.2 | And Jim, what a conversation you had with Ben Sass just a few days ago in Texas. |
| 1:23.5 | We've got part two of that queued up today. |
| 1:26.2 | Yeah, we do, John. |
| 1:27.3 | And Ben really opened up last time about facing a diagnosis of stage four pancreatic cancer, like you said, and how his faith has been shaped through this experience. |
| 1:37.3 | You know, you think about this as only a negative, but he really brought the idea that, you know, when you get that diagnosis or something else |
| 1:45.4 | might happen, just like Paul said, you know, be content in all things. |
| 1:49.6 | We don't know how we're going to react when that comes, but the reality is each and every |
| 1:54.4 | one of us will have our last day. |
| 1:56.5 | And that's something to think about. |
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