Family Life 5 O’Clock Report – 03/27/23
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Family Life Noon Report- 03/27/23
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Issues in Education – Bullying, Parents’ Bill of Rights – 03/27/23
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On Family Life’s “Issues in Education” Dr. Ralph Kerr with the Teaching and Learning Institute does a deep dive into the issues you care about that impact our public schools. Here’s what’s going on this week:
- Parents’ “Bill of Rights” – is it needed at school
- What should you to do – and not do – if your child is bullied at school?
- “Buzzwords” at Public Schools: mindfulness, emotional and social learning, restorative practices
Family Life 5 O’Clock Report – 03/24/23
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Capital Connection – 03/24/23
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In our weekly Friday Roundtable, our “Capital Connection” guests analyze cultural news and governmental issues of note in our two states.
This week, timely topics for Michael Gear (Pennsylvania Family Institute) and Jason McGuire (New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms) include:
- Gun rights legislation
- Fossil fuels — economics and/or the environment
- Big growth in a “Northern Invasion”
Family Life 5 O’Clock Report – 03/23/23
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Family Life Noon Report – 03/23/23
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Special Feature – CompassCare Attacked – Jim Harden – 03/23/23
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One of the CompassCare facilities in western New York has been violently attacked — twice in nine months. The most recent incident was the spray painting of graffiti on a sign at their Buffalo clinic a week ago, on March 16. That location also was set ablaze by arsonists in June 2022. Surveillance video showed two individuals smashing windows and setting fires inside the building. Damage was estimated at $400,000. To date, no arrests have been made.
CompassCare officials have claimed solving the arson case is a low priority for local police and the FBI. Both agencies deny 
that, and the FBI has offered a reward for public tips which assist in their investigation. CompassCare’s leaders also say that state officials have been one-sided in denouncing violence and threats, depending the positions held by those who are being threatened.
Jim Harden, the CEO of CompassCare, gives us a closer, first-person account of these two Buffalo attacks, as well as the surrounding and overarching issues of violence directed at pro-life centers across the nation
Family Life 5 O’Clock Report – 03/22/23
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Inside Out – Confidence in Barren Seasons – 03/22/23
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If your prayers seem unanswered, or you feel the wait for God to act has been long, author and speaker Dena Dyer encourages confidence that God uses the barren seasons for His purposes. Dyer is the author of the recent blog post “Confidence in Barren Seasons: What Elizabeth Can Teach Us.”
Have you prayed for healing, a new job, a spouse–or children–but you’re still waiting? If so, you join the people of the Bible, like Elizabeth and Zechariah, who lived through barren seasons. Their lives, says author Dena Dyer, show us that we can be confident that God uses these times for His purposes.
“A barren season is one in which our prayers don’t seem to be answered,”? Dyer says. “Maybe our dreams are deferred, or we’re just—impatiently—waiting on something that’s important to us.”
Dyer wrote a recent Christianity Today/Better Samaritan blog post titled “Confidence in Barren Seasons” and is the author of the book Wounded Women of the Bible. She says not only does the Bible introduce us to people who know the ache of waiting, even God knows that ache.
“Isaiah 30:18 is one of my favorite verses. And it says, ‘So the Lord must wait for you to come to Him so He can show you His love and compassion. For He is a faithful God. Blessed are those who wait for His help.’”
Barren seasons can tempt us to drift from God. But Dyer urges us to remain confident that God is using these seasons for His purposes. “Be honest with God,” she says. “He already knows how we feel. And He’s merciful and kind. And I’ve learned over the years that He wants a relationship with us all day, every day, no matter what our mental state, our spiritual state, our physical state.”
And even when we’re weary of waiting, or disappointed in God, He wants us to reach for Him. “Even in the midst of barrenness, even in the midst of our lack of faith, He’s not going to condemn us in the moment, but embrace us,” she says.
Read Dyer’s blog on this topic here.
