Turning Down the Anger and Turning Up the Light
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 1 May 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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There is so much anger in the culture that people often prefer yelling at each other or posting an ugly comment on social media rather than getting to know their neighbor. But shouting won’t solve anything. Senator James Lankford says Washington DC is a reflection of the anger in America, and the way to turn the country around is by how we live our lives for Christ within our families and communities.
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| 0:00.0 | You know, once you start talking to people and you begin to diffuse it and say, |
| 0:09.1 | okay, you're right. |
| 0:10.1 | All right, set that one aside. |
| 0:11.4 | Let's talk about some other things on it. |
| 0:13.3 | You can very often find some areas we do agree on. |
| 0:15.6 | And say, okay, we agree on that. |
| 0:16.8 | We disagree on that. |
| 0:18.0 | Let's start working on the areas we disagree on. |
| 0:19.6 | Let's just talk about it, at least. |
| 0:21.7 | Some good advice from Senator James Langford about finding common ground where there's disagreement. |
| 0:28.1 | And that seems like a very appropriate message today on this National Day of Prayer. |
| 0:33.1 | Welcome to Focus on the Family with Jim Daly. I'm John Fuller. |
| 0:36.5 | John Senator Langford has a great new book called |
| 0:39.4 | Turnaround, America's Revival, focusing on the things we can do as Christians to promote peace and biblical |
| 0:46.3 | values in our nation. He suggests that the most effective way to turn the nation around is to start |
| 0:52.5 | in our own families and communities. That |
| 0:54.3 | makes all the sense in the world. And that's what we'll be discussing today. Of course, the biggest |
| 0:59.6 | challenge is learning to get along with those who oppose our views. You know, in Second Timothy, |
| 1:05.1 | I think it's right around 2.24. It says to endure evil patiently. I struggle with that. I don't know about you, but it's a |
| 1:14.1 | hard one for me to endure evil patiently. But I think the Lord knows the heart of that person is |
| 1:20.3 | what he's after, the person that's blinded. And these are the kinds of things I talk about on my podcast, refocus with Jim Daly. |
| 1:28.5 | And recently, I had a great conversation with Senator Lankford, and we'll be sharing a portion of that today. |
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