Being the Man Your Family Needs (Part 1 of 2)
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 25 October 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Brant Hansen makes brilliant observations about what women need men to be - and six key decisions men can make to set themselves apart. Alluding to the creation story, Brant encourages men to be “Keepers of the Garden” – secure, confident protectors chasing after Christ. (Part 1 of 2)
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| 0:00.0 | In those early years, when I came to know the Lord, he and his family were so |
| 0:07.3 | against it that they actually advised him to divorce me. |
| 0:12.5 | Joyce spent many lonely years trying to trust God and love her husband well. |
| 0:17.2 | Thankfully, she found the support and encouragement she needed. |
| 0:21.0 | I think that God just really used to focus on the family and your guys' ministry to |
| 0:26.0 | grow me and prepare me and guide my heart to live out in front of my husband what it means to follow Christ. |
| 0:35.8 | In the best news of all is that Joyce Husband also became a follower of Jesus. |
| 0:40.8 | I'm Jim Daley. When we work together, we can strengthen more marriages like Joyce and give |
| 0:46.2 | families hope. Please call 800 the letter A in the word family or donate at focusonthefamily.com |
| 0:53.0 | slash hope and your gift will be doubled. |
| 1:02.2 | If you don't bind yourself to causes or things that are important, if you don't make that decision like |
| 1:08.8 | one woman forever, you will not be able to experience some of this freedom, some of this |
| 1:15.0 | the joy that things have could happen later on. You will wind up with yourself. |
| 1:20.4 | That's Brand Hansen. He's our guest today on focusonthefamily to help us |
| 1:24.4 | better understand God's great plan for men and how very important they we are to families and to society. |
| 1:31.4 | Stay with us for a fun challenging conversation today with your host focusonthefamily |
| 1:36.2 | president Jim Daley and I'm John Polin. John, I think it's fair to say a lot of guys today are |
| 1:41.0 | kind of struggling with aimlessness. What's my goal? There's certainly a hyper feminization of |
| 1:47.3 | the culture. So what are we about? You know as men? What do we do? I think it was Ted |
| 1:51.9 | cutting him. The pastor that's been on focus. Good friend once said the biggest challenge we |
| 1:56.9 | face is picking our own parking spot. Right. And I think the big reason and I believe our |
| 2:03.3 | guest day, Brand Hansen would agree that people men particularly are struggling is we're seeking |
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