3/5/24 5 O ‘Clock Report
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3/5/24 5 O ‘Clock Report
Hometown Heroes – Dan Sorber in Cuba – 3/05/24
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Syracuse-based missionary Dan Sorber just left for Cuba.
Before his departure, he talked with Family Life News about faith, Christian freedom, and today’s realities in a Communist nation.
Sorber sees the changes that have opened up across his 15 previous visits to Cuba. When government officials and the general population face desperation and economic disaster, those hardships actually open up more evangelistic opportunities. He tells us that real revival is underway there, in ways he has not seen in any other place.
Sorber and his team see one of their most urgent priorities for each of their mission visits is to support and encourage the local Cuban pastors.
Click the podcast player to discover more about what Christians in Cuba face every day, and about how Americans can pray for and support the Cuban people who do and who don’t consider themselves people of faith.
For more about Dan Sorber’s involvement in Christian evangelization in Cuba, go to the Mission Landing Cuba website or watch this video from his church, The Gathering Place in Syracuse.
Family Life’s “Hometown Heroes” interviews intriguing people from throughout Pennsylvania and New York who carry out inspirational, life-changing work. Tap the Hometown Heroes icon for more of these features.
3/4/24 5 O ‘Clock Report
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3/4/24 5 O ‘Clock Report
Issues in Education – Safe Female Sports, Financial Literacy – 3/04/24
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Should New York Students be Forced to take a Financial Literacy Course to Graduate ?
FAFSA Forms Still in Limbo
And Why Protecting Girls Sports is Worth the Fight
Dr. Ralph Kerr at the Teaching and Learning Institute tackles the tough topics facing our public schools Monday’s during the Noon Report on Issues in Education. Their website is WhyRun.org.
3/1/24 5 O ‘Clock Report
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3/1/24 5 O ‘Clock Report
Capital Connection – Voting districts, Trapped in bets, Silencing students – 3/01/24
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Gerrymandering in New York
Gambling Addiction in Pennsylvania
Conservatives Silenced at SUNY-Cortland
Christian activists Jason McGuire and Michael Geer tackle the tough topics facing today’s families each Friday during “Capital Connection”. It’s a front row seat to all that’s happening in Albany and Harrisburg.
Information about the New York “Legislative Day 2024” day-long advocacy event is available here.
2/29/24 5 O ‘Clock Report
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2/29/24 5 O ‘Clock Report
An Update from the PA Prolife Movement – 2/29/24
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An Update from the PA Prolife Movement
A prolife leader in Pennsylvania says abortions happen 34,000 times annually in Pennsylvania, but that the number is decreasing.
Maria Gallagher of PA Prolife Federation says that has abortion providers seeking more funding from government coffers, to make up for lost revenue. Governor Josh Shapiro’s administration has reclassified a longtime budget item which supported agencies which offer alternatives to abortion, but that money now goes to businesses that provide abortions and abortion pills.
Gallagher says the general public can speak up to their leaders in the executive and legislative branches about whether citizens support the use of tax money to end these pregnancies.
In this interview, she also speaks about ways that care centers provide encouragement, perspectives and resources to women — during a pregnancy and after a baby is born.
We began and ended the month with interviews with Maria Gallagher. Click the link below for our earlier conversation with her about a state Supreme Court ruling that had just happened. A lower court chose not to hear a Planned Parenthood lawsuit seeking to open more Pennsylvania Medicaid funding for more abortions. The high court narrowly determined the suit had enough merit to be decided by the Commonwealth Court.
“Faith Under Fire” is the Thursday Family Life News Feature which explores governmental, judicial and social controversies which impact the lives of New Yorkers, Pennsylvanians and others. Previous editions — on a full range of topics — are always available from FamilyLife.org and on most podcast hosting services … look for “Family Life News”.
2/28/24 5 O ‘Clock Report
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2/28/24 5 O ‘Clock Report
Parenting: Taking the Long View – Inside Out – 2/28/24
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Parenting: Taking the Long View
We want to raise our children well. Because of that, we look for instructions. That was true for parent and educational consultant Laura Spaulding.
“It seemed to be that there was always just a right way presented to you, and some of it came from the Christian culture, and some of it came from the neighborhood, and some of it came from TV,” she says.
Spaulding is the author of a January 2024 Gospel Coalition article titled Taking the Long View Revolutionized My Parenting.
Christian parents hold on to Proverbs 22:6, where we’re instructed to “train up a child in the way he should go,” so that, “when he is old, he will not depart from it. Taking that verse apart and recognizing what it really is saying: it is saying, ‘Start them this way, and it finishes this way.’ Like all the middle is so unique to each person,” she says.
Two decades into her parenting journey, Spaulding believes she’s developed some perspective.
“The chief end of parenting is not getting kids into perfect colleges so that they can find the perfect job and marry the perfect spouse, so that they could turn around and have perfect kids of their own,” she says. “The chief end of parenting, just like the chief end of life, is perfection for all eternity.”
That’s the kind of perfection that doesn’t come from formulas. It comes from Christ. “The ‘perfection for all eternity’ comes at the end of the race. At the end of the journey. And so our job as parents is to prepare our kids for a journey. It is to get them started.”
Get to know your children well, she says, and parent them accordingly. “Put the parenting books away and instead study the child in your arms,” she says, “really paying attention to what are their unique gifts and limitations. What motivates them. What stresses them out. What lights them up.”
Proverbs 22:6, Spaulding says, is a gracious invitation for taking a long view on the development of our children. “Use what you learn about them to help them know themselves, to help them know and relate to their Creator, to help prepare them for the good works that God has prepared in advance for them to do.
Join us for our 18-minute conversation by listening to the podcast.
Read the article that inspired this conversation here.
Read Laura Spaulding’s other writing here.
