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Jim Daly, president and CEO of Focus on the Family, managed to rise above his harrowing childhood, which included living in Compton, a suburb of Los Angeles. In his deeply personal memoir, he relives horrors no child should endure. A bloodcurdling neighborhood murder merely serves as the backdrop to the…

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1 author picked Finding Home: An Imperfect Path to Faith and Family as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This book is for anyone who has ever wondered, What is the purpose of my suffering? and Is there any hope for me?

As someone whose first three decades of life had been fairly carefree, I was surprised when suffering entered my world, and I found this book both instructive and inspiring as I journeyed back to a place of wholeness.

If Jim Daly, who was orphaned as a nine-year-old, abandoned by his stepfather on the day of his mother’s funeral, and endured crushing loneliness, could find hope and unbreakable strength in God and eventually become a man of tremendous…

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On locked ward 5C4, Josh, a patient with many similarities to Jesus, is hospitalized concurrently with Nick, a patient with many similarities to Santa. The two argue…

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