Best of Awesome Marriage Podcast: The Deep Need for Good Fathers - Interview with Rick Johnson
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 802 Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2017
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
This podcast aired last year but we wanted to highlight it again because it was such a great conversation that can help a lot of people. Please enjoy this instant classic awesome marriage podcast!
Rick is a best selling author, speaker, and founder of Better Dads. Rick inspires people with life-changing insights for men and women on parenting, marriage, and personal growth.
Rick joins Dr. Kim today as they talk about the need for good fathers and how the huge amount of absent fathers is affecting our society today. They give practical advice on how to be a great Dad and how God calls men to lead their families.
Tune in below to learn more about the deep need for good fathers!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Awesome Marriage Podcast, a place for honest conversations about marriage and how to have the relationship that God has designed for you. I am your co-host, Christina Dodson. On the show will be our host, Dr. Kim Kimberling and Nell Smith. To engage with the awesome marriage podcast, use the hashtag Awesome Marriage. |
| 0:24.0 | Welcome to the Awesome Marriage Instant Classic podcast. |
| 0:29.3 | This is an older podcast and I wanted to highlight again because it's too big of an issue not to. |
| 0:33.6 | So many people today are lacking good father figures in their lives. |
| 0:41.3 | I don't know anyone who really isn't affected by this in some way or another because even if you had a great dad, you've got plenty of friends who didn't. In this podcast, I have Rick Johnson with me, and we discussed the deep need for good fathers. |
| 0:45.3 | We discussed tips for men on how to be great dads and advice for those lacking a good father today. |
| 0:50.3 | Tune in and hear some great insight from Rick Johnson, the Better Dads Expert, |
| 0:55.9 | on an awesome marriage, instant classic podcast. |
| 0:59.3 | You are the Better Dad's expert, and just talk a little bit about that importance of having |
| 1:06.6 | good fathers in our culture today. |
| 1:09.3 | Yeah, well, let me just clarify the term expert is used pretty |
| 1:12.8 | loosely by my publisher. I think if you define expert as someone who's made all the mistakes you |
| 1:18.2 | could possibly make in a small area, then yeah, maybe I'd qualify. But yeah, you know, I spend |
| 1:24.5 | a lot of time going around the country talking to men, hoping to inspire them and encourage them about how important they really are and the fact that they matter. |
| 1:32.8 | And they matter significantly. |
| 1:35.2 | And it's not a message that men hear. |
| 1:37.1 | Father's here very often. |
| 1:38.8 | But the truth of the matter is all we have to do to look at the power or the influence of something is to look at what happens |
| 1:44.8 | when it's absent. So if we look at the lives of children, women and children, both, uh, when fathers |
| 1:51.4 | and men are involved in their lives, um, there's some pretty significant disadvantages associated |
| 1:56.9 | with that. So, so fathers are extremely important regardless of what our culture may or may not tell them. |
| 2:03.0 | Yeah, I agree. And I think, you know, when we see, when I work with a single mom or with kids and |
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