Annie F. Downs shares her heart to help Christians embrace the fun in life and reach others in the process. She tells stories of finding friendship in unexpected places and how you can do the same.

 

Get Annie Downs' book, Chase the Fun: 100 Days to Discover Fun Right Where You Are, for a gift of any amount.

 

Buy your copy of Jim Daly’s book, ReFOCUS! He shares how believers can engage the culture with the love of Christ.

 

Hear more about engaging cultural issues with truth and compassion in this video series from John Stonestreet.

 

Read about Coming Home to join God's family.

 

Listen to “Count It All Joy” and nearly 1000 other episodes with this free trial of Adventures in Odyssey.

 

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Annie F. Downs shares her heart to help Christians embrace the fun in life and reach others in the process. She tells stories of finding friendship in unexpected places and how you can do the same.
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<a href="https://donate.focusonthefamily.com/don-refocus-2024-12-30?refcd=2200709">Get Annie Downs' book, Chase the Fun: 100 Days to Discover Fun Right Where You Are, for a gift of any amount.</a>
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<a href="https://sf.fotf.com/nqti2n" data-callout-id="edit_links_in_description">Buy your copy of Jim Daly&rsquo;s book, ReFOCUS! He shares how believers can engage the culture with the love of Christ.</a>
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<a href="https://sf.fotf.com/zyhscn" data-callout-id="edit_links_in_description">Hear more about engaging cultural issues with truth and compassion in this video series from John Stonestreet.</a>
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<a href="https://sf.fotf.com/7nujze" data-callout-id="edit_links_in_description">Read about Coming Home to join God's family.</a>
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<a href="https://sf.fotf.com/uoodgu" data-callout-id="edit_links_in_description">Listen to &ldquo;Count It All Joy&rdquo; and nearly 1000 other episodes with this free trial of Adventures in Odyssey.</a>
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<a href="https://donate.focusonthefamily.com/24refocus-donate-page?refcd=2200709">Donate</a>
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<a href="https://sf.fotf.com/refocus-with-jim-daly-voice-mail">Send Jim a voicemail! Click here.</a>

Our culture grows more complicated and challenging every day, and we want to address those tough issues on the ReFOCUS with Jim Daly podcast. Jim Daly is the president of Focus on the Family, and he enjoys having deep and heartfelt conversations with people who will strengthen your faith. That’s why Jim has invited some of our day’s most acclaimed and respected thinkers to join the conversation. He will dig deeper and ask the hard questions to help you share Christ’s grace, truth, and love. This bi-weekly podcast will leave you feeling challenged, encouraged, and more engaged with the world. So dive in and listen.

Our culture grows more complicated and challenging every day, and we want to address those tough issues on the ReFOCUS with Jim Daly podcast. Jim Daly is the president of Focus on the Family, and he enjoys having deep and heartfelt conversations with people who will strengthen your faith. That’s why Jim has invited some of our day’s most acclaimed and respected thinkers to join the conversation. He will dig deeper and ask the hard questions to help you share Christ’s grace, truth, and love. This bi-weekly podcast will leave you feeling challenged, encouraged, and more engaged with the world. So dive in and listen.

ReFOCUS with Jim Daly

Annie F. Downs: Influencing Others with a Joy-Filled Life

Meet Aaron Renn and the Negative World

Three Worlds Framework

Beyond Culture War Politics

Prudential Engagement and Final Thoughts

Author and business consultant Aaron Renn helps Christians understand the adversarial culture we live in and develop and practice strategies to be effective witnesses and culture influencers for Christ. He examines the decline of the culture since the 1960s and suggests different personal and corporate strategies in the church to effectively impact the culture for Christ – through establishing a positive identity and excellence in our lives.

 

The world is shifting. Truth is under attack. Truth Rising, a new documentary from Focus on the Family and the Colson Center, reveals the crisis shaking faith, identity, and morality. But we can make a difference when we stand in God’s truth. Join the movement—watch now!

 

Focus on the Family’s The Daily Citizen provides a faith-based perspective to counter the mainstream media’s anti-Christian bias. The publication exists to provide timely, relevant analysis of current events and cultural trends all from a biblical worldview.

 

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Author and business consultant Aaron Renn helps Christians understand the adversarial culture we live in and develop and practice strategies to be effective witnesses and culture influencers for Christ. He examines the decline of the culture since the 1960s and suggests different personal and corporate strategies in the church to effectively impact the culture for Christ &ndash; through establishing a positive identity and excellence in our lives.
&nbsp;
<a href="https://sf.fotf.com/dnnnmo">The world is shifting. Truth is under attack. Truth Rising, a new documentary from Focus on the Family and the Colson Center, reveals the crisis shaking faith, identity, and morality. But we can make a difference when we stand in God&rsquo;s truth. Join the movement&mdash;watch now!</a>
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<a href="https://sf.fotf.com/kyct5c">Focus on the Family&rsquo;s The Daily Citizen provides a faith-based perspective to counter the mainstream media&rsquo;s anti-Christian bias. The publication exists to provide timely, relevant analysis of current events and cultural trends all from a biblical worldview.</a>
&nbsp;
<a href="https://donate.focusonthefamily.com/24refocus-donate-page?refcd=2450306">SUPPORT REFOCUS! GIVE HERE!</a>
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<a href="https://podcasts.focusonthefamily.com/show/refocus-with-jim-daly/contact/">Send your feedback or questions to Jim in the Contact Form.</a>

Faithful in the Negative World: Living for Christ in a Post-Christian Culture

ARC, Immigration Roots & Values

Personal Agency & the FREE Framework

Agency, Virtue & Dignity

Bridging the Divide

Ian Rowe is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he focuses on education and upward mobility, family formation, and adoption. He'll share how Christians can impact the culture for Christ on racial issues and find common sense solutions in education for the sake of American children. He'll also share part of his Four Point Plan (F.R.E.E.) for all children to overcome the victimhood narrative and discover their pathway to power.

 

Get a copy of Agency by Ian Rowe for a gift of any amount.

 

Buy your copy of Jim Daly’s book, ReFOCUS! He shares how believers can engage others in the culture with the love of Christ and reveal the heart of God.

 

The world is shifting. Truth is under attack. Truth Rising, a new documentary from Focus on the Family and the Colson Center, reveals the crisis shaking faith, identity, and morality. But we can make a difference when we stand in God’s truth. Join the movement—watch now!

 

Listen to Thriving Student, a podcast series from Focus on the Family, designed to help parents give their children what they’ll need to thrive during this school year.

 

SUPPORT REFOCUS! GIVE HERE!

 

Send your feedback or questions to Jim in the Contact Form.

Ian Rowe is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he focuses on education and upward mobility, family formation, and adoption. He'll share how Christians can impact the culture for Christ on racial issues and find common sense solutions in education for the sake of American children. He'll also share part of his Four Point Plan (F.R.E.E.) for all children to overcome the victimhood narrative and discover their pathway to power.
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<a href="https://donate.focusonthefamily.com/don-refocus-2026-02-23?refcd=2341801">Get a copy of Agency by Ian Rowe for a gift of any amount.</a>
&nbsp;
<a href="https://sf.fotf.com/fze46k" data-callout-id="edit_links_in_description">Buy your copy of Jim Daly&rsquo;s book, ReFOCUS! He shares how believers can engage others in the culture with the love of Christ and reveal the heart of God.</a>
&nbsp;
<a href="https://sf.fotf.com/cdpqfh">The world is shifting. Truth is under attack. Truth Rising, a new documentary from Focus on the Family and the Colson Center, reveals the crisis shaking faith, identity, and morality. But we can make a difference when we stand in God&rsquo;s truth. Join the movement&mdash;watch now!</a>
&nbsp;
<a href="https://sf.fotf.com/36g44n">Listen to Thriving Student, a podcast series from Focus on the Family, designed to help parents give their children what they&rsquo;ll need to thrive during this school year.</a>
&nbsp;
<a href="https://donate.focusonthefamily.com/24refocus-donate-page?refcd=2341801">SUPPORT REFOCUS! GIVE HERE!</a>
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<a href="https://podcasts.focusonthefamily.com/show/refocus-with-jim-daly/contact/">Send your feedback or questions to Jim in the Contact Form.</a>

Helping Every Child Flourish: Ian Rowe on Faith, Education, and Opportunity

Introduction and Jennifer's Gymnastics Journey

Challenges in Gymnastics 

Debating Gender and Sports

The Impact of Trans Ideology

February is National Girls & Women in Sports Month. Jennifer Sey was an elite U.S. gymnast in the mid-1980s, later becoming a prominent corporate leader at Levi's and the founder of her own apparel brand, XX-XY. She shares how these experiences shaped her commitment to support and protect girl's and women's sports, as she and Jim discuss the impact of trans-ideology on having fair competition. They explore the intense pressures and physical demands of gymnastics, highlighting the culture of abuse and the toll it took on Jennifer’s mental and physical health, which ultimately contributed to her decision to leave the sport just before the Olympic trials. Jennifer emphasizes resilience, the importance of self-advocacy, and the challenges of navigating a changing cultural landscape while maintaining integrity and supporting female athletes.

 

The world is shifting. Truth is under attack. Truth Rising, a new documentary from Focus on the Family and the Colson Center, reveals the crisis shaking faith, identity, and morality. But we can make a difference when we stand in God’s truth. Join the movement—watch now!

 

Here are some key resources – from Focus on the Family and the Daily Citizen – to help parents understand sexual identity confusion; explain to children God’s good design for male and female – and how this is distorted by transgender dogma; and raise children who embrace their God-given masculinity or femininity.

 

19-year-old Chloe Cole shares about the devastating effects of gender transitioning on children, her personal regrets of transitioning as a young teen, and the peace found by trusting in God's perfect design.

 

Focus on the Family's staff of licensed, professional counselors can help you bring healing and restoration to your family with Christian perspectives you can trust.

 

Buy your copy of Jim Daly’s book, ReFOCUS! He shares how believers can engage others in the culture with the love of Christ and reveal the heart of God.

 

SUPPORT REFOCUS! GIVE HERE!

 

Send your feedback or questions to Jim in the Contact Form.

February is National Girls &amp; Women in Sports Month. Jennifer Sey was an elite U.S. gymnast in the mid-1980s, later becoming a prominent corporate leader at Levi's and the founder of her own apparel brand, XX-XY. She shares how these experiences shaped her commitment to support and protect girl's and women's sports, as she and Jim discuss the impact of trans-ideology on having fair competition. They explore the intense pressures and physical demands of gymnastics, highlighting the culture of abuse and the toll it took on Jennifer&rsquo;s mental and physical health, which ultimately contributed to her decision to leave the sport just before the Olympic trials. Jennifer emphasizes resilience, the importance of self-advocacy, and the challenges of navigating a changing cultural landscape while maintaining integrity and supporting female athletes.
&nbsp;
<a href="https://sf.fotf.com/3zqhwk">The world is shifting. Truth is under attack. Truth Rising, a new documentary from Focus on the Family and the Colson Center, reveals the crisis shaking faith, identity, and morality. But we can make a difference when we stand in God&rsquo;s truth. Join the movement&mdash;watch now!</a>
&nbsp;
<a href="https://sf.fotf.com/p87nye">Here are some key resources &ndash; from Focus on the Family and the Daily Citizen &ndash; to help parents understand sexual identity confusion; explain to children God&rsquo;s good design for male and female &ndash; and how this is distorted by transgender dogma; and raise children who embrace their God-given masculinity or femininity.</a>
&nbsp;
<a href="https://sf.fotf.com/zdotvq">19-year-old Chloe Cole shares about the devastating effects of gender transitioning on children, her personal regrets of transitioning as a young teen, and the peace found by trusting in God's perfect design.</a>
&nbsp;
<a href="https://sf.fotf.com/qkfku8">Focus on the Family's staff of licensed, professional counselors can help you bring healing and restoration to your family with Christian perspectives you can trust.</a>
&nbsp;
<a href="https://store.focusonthefamily.com/refocus-living-a-life-that-reflects-gods-heart/">Buy your copy of Jim Daly&rsquo;s book, ReFOCUS! He shares how believers can engage others in the culture with the love of Christ and reveal the heart of God.</a>
&nbsp;
<a href="https://donate.focusonthefamily.com/24refocus-donate-page?refcd=2437501">SUPPORT REFOCUS! GIVE HERE!</a>
&nbsp;
<a href="https://podcasts.focusonthefamily.com/show/refocus-with-jim-daly/contact/">Send your feedback or questions to Jim in the Contact Form.</a>

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