Welcome back to culture and Christianity.

Today's session is a little different for me.

It started as a Father's Day idea.

I wanted you to meet my dad and hear him tell a bit of his God's story as a part of Father's Day.

And we didn't fit it all in, so he agreed to come back and do a second session, thus today.

And it looks like there may be a third session. If anybody watches, it's really, my dad's 88

and became a Christian about 30. So he's got about 50 years invested in the journey. And the fruit of that life has really

has exceeded anything I think any of us imagined from a spiritual standpoint. And so today

you're going to get to hear a slice of that. But there's some themes in it that I think

are worth noting. They have been principles upon which I have built my life. To be completely

candid, I'm a Christ follower today because as a young person, a teenager in particular, when the family was at home

and there was nobody watching, my dad would read his Bible and he and my mom would pray, not in a weird

way. We were pretty normal people. But I realized that his faith was real

to him in a way that I didn't see in other places. And it gave me pause. I wasn't sure I wanted

to do that, to be candid. I mean, when I left home to go off to college, I was still negotiating

with God as to what I would do with my life, never imagined ministry.

But I wasn't sure I wanted to be a Christ follower.

I realized it had changed my dad's priorities and how he spent his time and his money and what he did.

He was different from most of my friends' fathers.

And I wasn't sure I wanted to do that.

And so as I'm kind of inviting him to tell a bit of his story, what I'm asked, I hope

you can hear is the transformation that came in his heart.

...