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Focus on the Family with Jim Daly

Have a Heart

Focus on the Family with Jim Daly

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Society & Culture, Relationships, Parenting

4.74.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2026

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Jim Daly and John Fuller introduce this Adventures in Odyssey® radio drama about a former school bully, Dion, who returns to the town of Odyssey after a long absence. Dion seems to have a complete change of heart. Two friends, Buddy and Zoe, try to discover why Dion is so different. Adventures in Odyssey has a new animated film project, Journey into the Impossible, coming soon.

 

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0:00.0

Your marriage can be healed.

0:03.3

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0:12.4

We'll go to this thing, but this is it.

0:14.7

If this doesn't work, we're done.

0:16.3

What we have now, it's way more than we ever had before and that I ever even dreamed of in the marriage.

0:23.0

Discover more at hoperestored.com. That's hope restored.com.

0:32.5

When we only think of a person as an enemy, we forget that they're also human beings, people with feelings, families, favorite basketball teams.

0:46.3

The Bulls, he wears their jerseys.

0:48.3

Exactly. You see, changing physical hearts with someone can't change your personality.

0:55.0

But God can absolutely change your symbolic heart through circumstances,

1:00.0

or through other people, or through his love.

1:04.0

Don't you think it's possible that Dion's personality difference

1:08.0

could be due to the fact that he just went through an emotional, life-changing experience?

1:12.5

He did almost die.

1:15.0

Yes.

1:16.4

And if God also desires, he can use that kind of situation to soften the hardest of hearts.

1:26.7

Well, that dialogue is from our popular children's radio drama, Adventures and Odyssey.

1:32.1

I'm John Fuller, and today on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly.

1:35.3

We'll be featuring one of the many powerful stories from that radio series, that drama,

1:40.5

which helps children navigate real-life questions and discover what it means to live out their faith.

1:46.1

And it's a lot of fun. Let me just say that. Since 1987, we've been producing wonderful,

1:52.1

imaginative stories for kids of all ages. And now we have more than a thousand episodes

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