A Father’s Love Is Special: Steven Curtis Chapman and Mark Miller (and their daughters!)
Jesus Calling: Stories of Faith
Jesus Calling
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🗓️ 13 June 2019
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Dads hold a tender place in our hearts. Like our heavenly Father, they have a unique way of showing they see us, we matter, and we are loved. And as we become parents, we want to shower our children with the same kind of love and provision a good father graciously gives. Our guests are Christian singer/songwriter Steven Curtis Chapman and his daughter Emily Chapman Richards, and Sawyer Brown frontman and Christian music producer Mark Miller and his daughter, TV host Madison Brown. These dads and daughters talk about special moments they had with their own fathers, along with the faithful legacies they’re working to pass on to their children today.
Links, Products and Resources Mentioned:
Jesus Calling: 365 Devotions for Kids
Deeper Roots: Where the Bluegrass Grows, Steven Curtis Chapman’s latest album
Mark Miller, frontman to Sawyer Brown
Madison Brown, host of Chasing Down Madison Brown
Interview Quotes:
“My dad, even if he's not here in physical presence, I know that I'm in his heart and I'm on his mind. I'm in his prayers and his thoughts. He's got my back, and he sees with me." - Steven Curtis Chapman
“I love my dad. Dad has always, and continues to remain to this day, always very intentional with every moment he has.” - Emily Chapman Richards
“There's nothing sweeter to the heart of a dad than to hear his children bless him.” - Steven Curtis Chapman
“That’s what’s so beautiful about Jesus Calling, I think. It's just the approach of speaking in a language where you feel like Jesus is speaking these things to you and right into your situation.” - Steven Curtis Chapman
“There were several other things throughout my career that were crossroads that really challenged my faith. I always went in the direction of my faith, and it always was the right thing to do.” - Mark Miller
“I want [my kids] to grow up the way that I did, to know that if you're willing to work, you can achieve anything you want to. But you have to work to get it.” - Mark Miller
”[Jesus Calling has] become not only a great way for all of us to have a good daily devotional, but at the same time a great way to stay together as a family.” - Madison Brown
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| 0:14.6 | What my prayer has been and was from the very beginning in my marriage and in my family is God I want more than anything for my wife to be able to stand and my children to be able to stand and say, albeit very imperfectly, that man was determined to love God and love us. |
| 0:22.4 | Welcome to the Jesus and us. |
| 0:23.6 | Welcome to the Jesus Calling Podcast. |
| 0:26.3 | Our guests are a pair of father-daughter duos who have enjoyed a close relationship in the various |
| 0:31.4 | seasons of their family's lives and and discuss the impact of fatherhood and being fathered. |
| 0:37.0 | Christian singer-songwriter Stephen Curtis Chapman and his daughter Emily Chapman Richards, |
| 0:42.0 | and country music artist and Christian music producer Mark Miller and his daughter Madison Brown. |
| 0:47.0 | As Stephen Curtis Chapman grew up in Paducah, Kentucky he fell in love with the way his father not only expressed |
| 0:53.7 | himself through music, but also the way he expressed his deep love for God. |
| 0:58.9 | Stephen worked hard to carry these lessons into his own family. Today, he his daughter Emily tell us what it was like growing |
| 1:05.2 | up in the Chapman House and how as a child Emily led the family to become the ardent |
| 1:09.9 | supporters of adoption they are today. |
| 1:12.0 | I'm Stephen Curtis Chapman. I am a singer-songwriter. |
| 1:16.7 | People probably most know if they recognize those three names at all. Maybe it's from some of the music that I've |
| 1:24.8 | written and recorded over the last 32 years now. Wow, can't even believe that. |
| 1:30.6 | Hi my name is Emily Chapman Richards and I am the lucky, lucky eldest daughter of Mary Beth |
| 1:38.4 | and Stephen Curtis Chapman here in Franklin, Tennessee. |
| 1:42.6 | I am currently serving as the executive director of Show Hope, |
| 1:46.8 | a nonprofit organization that seeks to care for orphans |
| 1:50.7 | by engaging the church and reducing barriers to adoptions co-founded by my parents in 2003 and I've been here for a decade working which is I love. But probably most importantly I am the wife of |
| 2:05.8 | Tanner Richards and the mother to three beautiful ladies, Eile, Della, and Verdi, we |
| 2:11.9 | live here in Franklin. |
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