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The Family Teams Podcast

Ep. 289 | Fatherhood Lessons from Genesis 23

The Family Teams Podcast

Jeff Bethke

Religion & Spirituality, Kids & Family, Christianity, Parenting

4.9729 Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2020

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Jeremy and Jeff discuss Genesis 23.

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almost near jerk reaction is this is there can't be a less important topic.

0:08.0

What's that guys? Welcome to another five-minute fatherhood. So one of my favorite

0:11.5

passages that just we tend to skip in the book of Genesis. We love Genesis. We love talking

0:15.8

about the creation story and Adam and Eve and Abraham, but probably maybe the most skipped chapter in Genesis,

0:23.3

could be Genesis 23.

0:24.4

It's got to be up there.

0:25.7

Because it's an entire chapter where Abraham tries to figure out

0:28.6

where to bury his family.

0:30.7

And I just encourage you guys to take a look at that

0:32.5

because as we talk to families,

0:35.4

every family has this conversation about like,

0:39.9

what do we do when it's time to think about how to bury the debt of our family? And today, as I've had conversations

0:46.0

with families, the almost knee-jerk reaction is this is, there can't be a less important topic.

0:51.4

You know, like maybe just cremation, just like don't hurt the environment,

0:56.0

just forget about it. And if somebody starts to make a big deal out of how they're going to be

1:00.6

buried, it's sort of considered almost narcissistic. Like, what's your problem? Like, do you feel

1:04.6

like you have to be remembered? So I just want to call this out because this actually mattered

1:08.8

to Abraham a lot. He, he thought about this.

1:11.2

We have an entire chapter where you see Abraham as a father of a multi-generational family line

1:16.5

really thought thoughtfully thinking this through. And the reason you guys, he thought about this,

1:20.8

wasn't because he was so adamant that as a selfish father, he needed to be remembered.

1:26.7

It really was because if you don't craft some way

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