Where Have All the Fathers Gone? (Part 1 of 2)

Truth For Life Daily Program

Alistair Begg

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🗓️ 22 May 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Fatherhood’s perceived significance has declined in many cultures, and fatherless homes are on the rise. Listen to Truth For Life as Alistair Begg considers the reasons behind this alarming trend and its impact on individuals, families, and societies.

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0:00.0	The You're going to do you.
0:13.0	Do you do you do you do you do
0:15.0	do you do In so many cultures today the perceived significance of fatherhood has been steadily on the decline. Fatherless homes are on the rise.
0:35.0	Today on Truth for Life will consider the reasons behind this disturbing trend
0:41.0	as well as the impact on individuals, families, and societies alike.
0:46.5	Alistair Begg is teaching a message he's titled, Where Have All the Fathers Gone? Father is gone.
0:55.0	Open our eyes, O Lord, that we may behold wonderful things in your word for Jesus sake, amen.
1:07.0	Hebrews chapter 11 and verse 21. By faith Jacob when he was dying blessed each of Joseph's sons
1:20.8	and worshipped as he leaned on the top of his staff.
1:27.1	That is our verse for the morning.
1:29.4	That is the framework of our study.
1:31.8	By faith, Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of Joseph's sons
1:36.6	and worshipped as he leaned on the top of his staff. The Bible says that we're supposed to honor our fathers and our mothers. It's
1:46.4	therefore not inappropriate that we would address what is a very, very important
1:50.5	area and we do so from three particular perspectives this morning. First of all,
1:57.2	viewing it culturally, then viewing it biblically, and then applying it personally. So if you have those three words, you have the
2:06.3	tags, the coat hangers as it were, upon which everything else will hang. And we come directly to the matter of the cultural environment in
2:18.0	which we address this issue of fatherhood. Mother's Day was given to the world by America, so to was Father's Day. A lady by the
2:30.8	name of Mrs. Sonora Dodd.
2:33.8	I remembered her all week by referring to her as snoring Dodd,
2:38.8	who in 1910 was listening to her pastor give the Mother's Day message.
2:47.0	As she listened, she was the sister of five brothers who were being brought up by their father in the absence of her
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