In our day, many voices are questioning whether we can take seriously the opening chapters

of the book of Genesis in what they relate about God's creation of the world.

Dr. Tom Eger, president of Concordia Seminary St. Louis, talking about his presentation

at this year's issues, et cetera, making the case conference.

And what difference does it make, whether we regard the opening chapters of Genesis

as a true record of what God did and how he did it?

And there are a number of implications for our Christian life and faith,

and for our proclamation of the saving work of Christ

involved in how we read the opening chapters of Genesis. You can meet and hear Dr. Tom Eger

making the case for the biblical account of creation at the 2025 Making the Case Conference

Friday, July 18th and Saturday, July 19th, at Concordia University, Chicago.

For more information, visit Issuesetc.org.

And the cats in the cradle and the silver spoon, little boy blue and the man of the moon.

When you're coming home, son, I don't know when, we'll get together then, Dad, you know we'll have a good time, man.

This coming Sunday, the culture celebrates Father's Day.

Fathers have fallen on hard times.

Fatherhood is not as popular.

We see studies out on a weekly basis that they're not even really necessary.

There was a recent study that said,

it's nice to have a father around, but kids are better off maybe without a father in the house.

Now, that is so counterintuitive and illogical as to be ridiculous on its face. But

what does scripture have to say about the value of fathers, especially faithful fathers?

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