Portrait of a Father - Lover of the Family
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 27 May 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Men, there’s something you can give to your kids that they will pass on to their kids, and then they’ll pass on to their kids, generation after generation. It’s powerful. It’s a life giving tool that will guide them through relationships and personal struggles for the rest of their lives. Join Chip as he wraps up his series, “Portrait of a Father.”
Main PointsThe Biblical Portrait of a Father
- He's a teacher. - Ephesians 6:4
- He's a lover. - Malachi 4:5-6
How do you become the dad your kids need you to be?
- It must begin with your thinking.
- It only becomes real with support.
- It requires supernatural grace.
- It is sustained by pondering the future.
Chip Ingram’s passion is helping Christians really live like Christians. As a pastor, author, and teacher for more than three decades, Chip has helped believers around the world move from spiritual spectators to healthy, authentic disciples of Jesus by living out God’s truth in their lives and relationships in transformational ways.
About Living on the EdgeLiving on the Edge exists to help Christians live like Christians. Established in 1995 as the radio ministry of pastor and author Chip Ingram, God has since grown it into a global discipleship ministry. Living on the Edge provides Biblical teaching and discipleship resources that challenge and equip spiritually hungry Christians all over the world to become mature disciples of Jesus.
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| 0:00.0 | Men, there is something that you can get to your kids that they will pass on to their |
| 0:07.5 | kids and then they'll pass on to their kids generation after generation. |
| 0:14.0 | It's powerful. |
| 0:15.2 | It's a life-giving tool that will guide them |
| 0:17.2 | through relationships, personal struggles, |
| 0:20.4 | and serve them for the rest of their lives. |
| 0:23.0 | If you'll stick around, I'd like to share what that is. |
| 0:27.0 | Thanks for listening to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. |
| 0:35.0 | Living on the Edge is an international teaching and discipleship ministry focused on helping Christians live like Christians. |
| 0:43.0 | And in just a minute we'll wrap up our series Portrait of a Father. |
| 0:47.0 | For the last handful of programs, Chips described four fundamental responsibilities of a dad laid out for us in God's word. |
| 0:54.6 | Today he'll finish clarifying what it means for a man to be a lover of his family |
| 0:59.5 | and explain how we can practice all four of these roles in everyday life. So if you're ready, here's |
| 1:05.2 | Chip with the remainder of his talk. |
| 1:08.5 | In Jesus Day, kids didn't matter, they were in the way. Even among his followers, you remember when the kids ran up to him? |
| 1:14.0 | The what the disciples say, get him out of here, they're just kids, kids don't matter. |
| 1:17.0 | What did Jesus say? Stop. Bring one of the children to me. |
| 1:21.0 | And he lifted up the little child. |
| 1:24.4 | And then he said, such is the kingdom of God. |
| 1:28.8 | See, children don't bring anything to the party. |
| 1:31.9 | They don't earn any money. |
| 1:33.5 | They are need receptors. |
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