Inviting Strangers into God's Family
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 24 November 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
As a believer in Christ, you want to effectively communicate and spread God’s love. And that starts with a spirit of hospitality. Annie McCune shares amazing stories to give you some great ideas on how to show hospitality towards neighbors and strangers as a way of loving like Christ. You’ll be inspired to open your heart and your home!
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| 0:00.0 | Kimberly struggled for 10 years in an unhappy marriage, filled with conflict, addiction, and so much anger. |
| 0:08.0 | Kimberly was ready to walk away, but God used our ministry to transform her heart. |
| 0:14.0 | The podcast and all the focus on the family resources was like the hands and feet of Jesus in that moment, in those moments, because it's |
| 0:22.1 | like, we're arguing, and we don't know even know how to pray. We don't know where to go in the |
| 0:26.2 | Bible. As Kimberly and her husband rebuilt their marriage, we were part of their healing process. |
| 0:32.6 | Focus on the family was like the wow of wisdom, like, that we can always go to. |
| 0:37.5 | I'm Jim Daly. Every day, reach out to Focus on the Family for help with their |
| 0:42.9 | marriages, their parenting, and their faith. In their most desperate hour, you can help |
| 0:48.0 | deliver hope and joy to these families. Give by December 31st and your gift will be doubled. Donate today at focus on the |
| 0:56.2 | family.com slash family. The Surgeon General just wrote a report one in two of all Americans |
| 1:04.5 | are suffering physically or mentally from isolation and loneliness, which means somebody's got to get it started, you know? |
| 1:14.8 | And what a better people to breach that than the people who know God. |
| 1:19.7 | That's Annie McCune, and she joins us today on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly. |
| 1:24.2 | And thank you for being here. |
| 1:25.7 | I'm John Fuller. |
| 1:27.2 | John, I've always been fascinated |
| 1:29.0 | with that parable Jesus told in Matthew 25 about the sheep and the goats. On the right were the |
| 1:34.8 | sheep, on the left were the goats. And I think in the end, you want to be a sheep, right? And there's |
| 1:40.7 | a few things that you do to demonstrate that. Faith in Christ and total kind of acceptance of Jesus being the son of God. Everybody probably knows that. But he tells the sheep that they're blessed and will inherit the kingdom. And the reason they inherit the kingdom in part is because they took care of the hungry, the thirsty, the stranger |
| 2:01.3 | in need, the sick, the imprisoned. It's what the Lord told us to do, right? And then he tells |
| 2:06.9 | the goats, depart from me, I never knew you. So how do you land on the side of the sheep? Well, |
| 2:12.9 | read the word and do the word. And today we're going to talk about hospitality, which is a lost art of the church. |
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