Happy Father's Day, Carlos Whitaker, what a joy to have you at First Life Church.

Happy Father's Day, everybody.

Yes, Happy Father's Day.

Oh my God.

I love you.

I love these people.

Man, you know, I tell you what, it is exciting to get to have a conversation with you on a subject that means so much to both of us

Absolutely and in culminating in the week of Iraq the city of course we take a week every summer and serve our communities and you just finished that yeah it's it's literally culminating now right now in father

Father's Day and I think that's so perfect because it's all about the heartbeat is about

what can we do for the cities that we live in to enrich them to make them better and I can't think of a single thing that we can do better for our

communities than to raise release and encourage strong men to be fathers in their homes

amen. Yeah, amen. I think, you know, fatherhood is such, I think maybe an ignored piece of the fabric of who

God created a family to be.

And I can't think of a better thing to focus on

and to release into your congregation

than empowering the men in your church

to be great, not just just good but great fathers yeah I mean

Jeremiah talks about what to do in exile and until we get to heaven we're

essentially in exile right absolutely heaven's our, so currently we're living in a place

that's not where our citizenship is.

And kind of the heartbeat for Rock City

has always been what to do in exile and what he says

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