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Fearless with Cissie Graham Lynch

A Father’s Character – Lessons I’ve Learned From My Dad and Grandfathers

Fearless with Cissie Graham Lynch

Billy Graham Evangelistic Association

Billy Graham, Society & Culture, Bible, Cissie Graham Lynch, Christianity, Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, Christian, God, Franklin Graham, Religion & Spirituality, Fearless

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

I’m thankful that I grew up with a godly dad, two godly grandfathers and other men who influenced my life. The lessons they’ve taught me continue to guide me. As we get ready to celebrate Father’s Day, I want to share with you a little bit about the important men in my life—some stories about them and wisdom from them. I also look at what the Bible says about the roles of fathers. But this episode is for moms, too, because of a lot of what I reference from the Bible can help both parent...

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Cissy Graham Lynch.

0:04.0

Welcome to Fearless, helping you have a fearless faith in a compromising culture. I want to be fearless.

0:19.0

Welcome back to Fearless and this next week is Father's Day. I'm actually here at the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association in studio this week.

0:33.4

And as I pulled up into the property here in Charlotte,

0:37.2

North Carolina, it's almost every time I drive in,

0:41.3

I start to cry, just of God's goodness of his faithfulness to my grandfather's life and to my father's life and I'm just grateful that I've had the opportunity to have a front-rote seat of how God has used men who've been obedient to their calling on their life and how God has used them in a mighty way, but men with a heart to share the gospel of Jesus Christ.

1:08.0

Because it's the only hope that we have in this dark world, this sinful world that we face and all these news events that we turn on the news

1:17.3

every morning and that we see and it can be so daunting to think how can we face each day.

1:24.4

But I had a grandfather and a father and a brother

1:26.8

and a brother who their hope is in Jesus

1:30.8

and they want the world to know that message.

1:33.4

So I love being here at the office.

1:35.7

It's always fun to be with this team and wonderful group of men and women

1:39.8

and starting off our day together.

1:41.4

But for Father's Day, I wanted to do something a little different.

1:46.4

I wanted to read some poetry for you.

1:48.9

And you'll have to bear with me, because reading poetry

1:50.9

can always sound maybe sometimes awkward when you read it out loud

1:54.3

than it does when you read it silent. But if you followed me for quite some time you know

1:59.4

that I've mentioned that I love reading my grandmother's poetry. I didn't used to read it when I was

2:06.9

younger but since she passed away many years ago I've learned a lot of maybe what she would tell me if I was sitting next to her,

2:15.2

whether if I was sitting next to her bed or her chair of what she would teach me.

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