Focus on the Family Magazine - October/November 2020
It can be a struggle to raise a family while balancing your work life, social life and relationships. Focus on the Family magazine is here to help! Each complimentary issue delivers fresh, practical Biblical guidance on family and life topics. Every issue comes packed with relevant advice to build up your kids, strengthen your marriage, navigate entertainment and culture, and handle common challenges you may face in your marriage and parenting journeys. Plus you'll find seasonal advice ranging from back-to-school activities to date night tips for you and your spouse.
It can be a struggle to raise a family while balancing your work life, social life and relationships. Focus on the Family magazine is here to help! Each complimentary issue delivers fresh, practical Biblical guidance on family and life topics.
Every issue comes packed with relevant advice to build up your kids, strengthen your marriage, navigate entertainment and culture, and handle common challenges you may face in your marriage and parenting journeys. Plus you'll find seasonal advice ranging from back-to-school activities to date night tips for you and your spouse.
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BIBLE LITERACY / FaITH & INSPIRaTION<br />
ray vander Laan teaching <strong>on</strong> an excursi<strong>on</strong><br />
overlooking <strong>the</strong> Par<strong>the</strong>n<strong>on</strong> in Greece<br />
THE ANCIENT LAND of Israel<br />
is a testim<strong>on</strong>y. An evidence . . . of <strong>the</strong><br />
greatness of what God did in that<br />
country. A testim<strong>on</strong>y to <strong>the</strong> truth of<br />
<strong>the</strong> words that we find in <strong>the</strong> pages of<br />
<strong>the</strong> Bible.<br />
Those were <strong>the</strong> introductory<br />
words of a groundbreaking video<br />
series that debuted in <strong>the</strong> summer<br />
of 1995—and c<strong>on</strong>tinues today. It’s<br />
a series that takes viewers to <strong>the</strong><br />
locati<strong>on</strong>s and settings we read<br />
about in Scripture, offering c<strong>on</strong>textual<br />
insights into how <strong>the</strong> people of<br />
Bible times experienced and understood<br />
what we may have read—and<br />
perhaps skipped over—hundreds<br />
of times.<br />
This l<strong>on</strong>g-running video series,<br />
hosted by a gifted communicator<br />
and teacher named Ray Vander Laan,<br />
is called That <strong>the</strong> World May Know.<br />
More than we recognize<br />
When Ray was obtaining his<br />
Master of Divinity degree in <strong>the</strong><br />
mid-1970s, he had <strong>the</strong> opportunity<br />
to study in Israel.<br />
“When I got to <strong>the</strong> Middle East<br />
and looked at <strong>the</strong> Bible <strong>the</strong> way<br />
Hebrew people do,” he says, “it<br />
struck me <strong>the</strong>re were insights, additi<strong>on</strong>al<br />
nuances and meanings that<br />
are not easily seen from a Western<br />
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