I'm learning a lot, but I have absolutely no more emotional gas in my motivational tank and I got a thesis to write. I knew I needed go to school full time and figure out a way to support my family and so for four years we lived a pressurized, stressful, loony, amazing, victorious God came through beyond what we can imagine in our marriage got stretched our God got bigger and four years later, I've got now to eight-year-olds and then amazingly this other little boy came along 28-year-olds toddler and the one thing I want to do is get out of this place. Put everybody in a Ryder truck and we drove to Dallas and I were called of God to go into ministry and change careers and our conviction was a mime wifely to stay home with my little boys.

After that, you know, because I wanted to pilot the transitions make it as difficult as possible. When I realized as I do not be a husband little dad in six months. No experience in the day I got married I became a dad later got to adopt my older two boys, but had four-year-olds from the get-go.

It's not that I jumped into fatherhood early with both feet. This is an academic to me and what I know is for a lot of human. A generation ago an American child could reasonably expect to grow up with his or her father today in American child can reasonably expect not. I quote he says the United States is becoming increasingly fatherless society. Welcome to this Edition of Living on the Edge with your finger tips are Bible teacher for the steely discipleship program motivating Christians to live like Christians joining a sister because a new series called portrait of a father packing with the Bible says about additional responsibilities of fathers often collected outright rejected for the series is that God is called them to be before we begin, let me encourage you to use chips message notes while you listen don't really help you get the most out of what you're about to hear download them under the broadcast Listeners just Fill in the notes that Pierce chip today for out of 10 children will put their head on a pillow in a house without a day and not David Blankenhorn's landmark book. Morally strong adults stick around because that's what talk about today. What kind of model are you setting for the now if you want your kids grow up to be positive self assured. Hey dad when your kids look at you when they see a hard worker, unloving sports fanatic and outdoorsman.

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