One of the subtle and yet effective way by which Hollywood has managed to marred the image of God

was by marting the image of the father in the home. For the past 20 years, every sitcom have persistently presented the image of

a father in the home as a bumbling idiot, clueless, disposable and replaceable, unloving, uninvolved, a sperm donor, insecure and helpless, of equal or less value

than the family pet.

These are all from sitcoms that I've been airing in the last 20 years.

And the tragedy is this.

As children sit back and laugh heartly at the foibles of Homer Simpson, they are subconsciously

growing up viewing their own father that way.

They grow up with a distorted image of fatherhood,

and therefore they grow up with a distorted image of God, our father. Now, if you don't believe me,

just listen to this. The Reader Digest surveyed three and four-year-olds, and they asked a question, who would you rather give up television or your daddy?

33% of those kids said, Daddy. U.S. News and Word report followed with another

major survey of 1,200 people. Forty-nine percent of these claimed that their father

were still living. And of them, seven% said that their mother is their best friend, and 0% said

the father is their best friend. This is a secular statistic, so it has nothing to do with Christianity.

But here's the biblical facts, and you need to understand, as I need to understand, that Jesus Christ, the Son of God,

who came to tell us and revealed to us what God the Father is like, he said, God is a Father,

to everyone who would come and take the son as the savior of the life.

He's the father.

And the story that we call the parodical son is all about the father.

It's about the heart of the father.

It is about the character of the father.

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