To be known and still liked, feels way better than to be not known, to fake it and to be impressive, but no one really knows you.

Welcome to Family Life Today,

where we want to help you pursue the relationships that matter most.

I'm Shelby Abbott and your hosts are Dave and Ann Wilson.

You can find us at family life today.com.

This is family life today. Today. So you excited about today?

So you excited about today?

Yeah, because we're going to talk about the crisis going on in our country.

Yeah, we've got an expert in the studio, Jeff Kemp, is back, and we're going to talk about the

manhood crisis.

That's been a crisis for a long time, but we're feeling it in a way in this

generation. I don't know if we've ever felt before. We're going to be talking about

his book, Receive, and the subtitle is The Way of Jesus for Men.

So Jeff, you tell us what is the crisis

because you've been talking about this,

thinking about it, dreaming about it,

and wanting to help men. Well, a crisis of men not doing well. about it

seeming about it and wanting to help men. Either having no confidence or having confidence in the wrong things

is it damages, not just them and we have higher suicide rates and depression rates obviously loneliness and isolation but it damages the women they don't marry that they should

The women they're married to there are their wives and the kids that aren't getting a healthy dad that knows how to connect and love and persevere through challenges and invest in them.

But beneath the crisis of manhood is the crisis of identity.

That touches women, teenage girls, teenage boys, little boys, little girls, old men, young men, women as well. But men in particular really struggle

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