How Heart Surgery Gave Me a New Perspective on Life and Faith
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Kenn Kington was given a shocking diagnosis — he needed immediate open-heart surgery and only had a 60-percent chance of survival. Along the way, Kenn discovered 3 powerful gifts – people who loved and cared for him, a new intimacy with God through prayer, and godly truth that gave him hope for the future.
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| 0:30.7 | He said, you need to treat every day like it's a bonus, because for you, it is. |
| 0:41.1 | Wow. |
| 0:41.7 | And I can tell you, with all honesty, every day I wake up, I'm like, okay, I got one more day. |
| 0:48.5 | We're not, nobody's promised tomorrow. |
| 0:50.3 | Right, right. |
| 0:51.3 | Man, getting to go through that process. |
| 0:53.8 | Sure. |
| 0:53.9 | Like, no, no, you're not promised today. you got a 50-50 shot, you're not making it to |
| 0:59.1 | tomorrow. That's Ken Kington describing a profound near-death experience that really has |
| 1:05.1 | transformed his life and his faith. And we'll hear more of Ken's remarkable story today on |
| 1:09.9 | Focus on the Family with Jim Daly. |
| 1:12.1 | Thanks for joining us. I'm John Fuller. |
| 1:14.2 | You know, John, sometimes people get very uncomfortable thinking about that last day to the point |
| 1:19.0 | where we just ignore it. And I think it's to our peril because I think it's important to |
| 1:23.7 | cherish each and every day. And we're not guaranteed tomorrow. We're not guaranteed this afternoon. |
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