It's a recognition of who we are before a holy God. All of us, every single one of us,

have fallen short of his glory. And we're in need of a Savior and we're in need of His

Grace every day, every minute of every day and

Recognizing that puts you in position to have the kind of eternal perspective and the humility that's necessary to do difficult things and to do difficult jobs.

Well that's the speaker of the U.S. House, Mike Johnson and he's my special guest today

on Focus on the family with Jim Daly.

It's a privilege to connect with the speaker

to discuss his faith, his family, and how his work

in the government kind of gets accomplished day by day. It's not easy to be in leadership. I have

seen that over my 35 years at focus on the family and we'll talk about that and how his faith guides his daily decisions.

Mike Johnson became the Speaker of the House in 2023.

He served in Congress since 2016, and before that, he was a representative in the Louisiana State House.

He and his wife Kelly have been married for 25 years and they have five children.

Mr. Speaker, welcome to focus on the family. Well, thanks for being here and

thanks for having me. Now I'm going to ask you some questions that I think take you back

before we get into kind of the political landscape and some of the issues we're facing as a nation.

But this is my wife, Jean, she loves to know more about the person,

whether we're watching football or watching the news and political figures.

So I'm doing this for her. But I'm going to go back to your

parents were teenage parents. They weren't married when they had you. Probably thought

about maybe not being able to keep you or an abortion.

Describe that revelation as you grow up. You find out your parents were, you know, and not in the best

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