Where Have All The Fathers Gone?: How Christian Fathers Can Lead Their Families In Godless Times

By Gary Martin

This book is intended to encourage men, husbands, and fathers to understand that God has given them unique abilities to lead their families through all the difficulties the secular world can throw at them.

The God-given task of a Christian father is so much more than working long days at a difficult job just to pay the bills and keep food on the table. Wives and children also need their father to lead his family in a God-ordered manner that will help them navigate the temptations and evil of living in a godless world.

Children at every stage in their lives need their father’s strong godly leadership and guidance along with their mother’s unique God-given gifts so decisions the children eventually make as adults will also be guided by God himself.

With the Bible as its authority, this book will provide the specific duties God requires of a Christian husband and father. Not only will it point out a husband’s responsibilities to his wife, but it will also show that his wife, too, has been given specific gifts from God that differ from her husband’s, though both are necessary for raising godly children.

It will help make family time more practical in a busy world of long work hours and conflicting school activities because meaningful family time need not be crammed into an everyday schedule.

Even the rebellious child is not neglected in these pages, and parents will be given encouragement in dealing with such a child.

In short, this book will help fathers to lead their families God’s way without resorting to threats and physical punishment. Fathers will learn in these pages that God’s way produces peace, contentment, and the lasting joy of true biblical love in a family.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
• Release date: Oct 29, 2021
• ISBN: 9781638145387

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Where Have All The Fathers Gone?

How Christian Fathers Can Lead Their Families In Godless Times

Gary Martin

ISBN 978-1-63814-537-0 (Paperback)

ISBN 978-1-63814-538-7 (Digital)

Copyright © 2021 Gary Martin

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Table of Contents

Daddy on the Hot Seat

The Case for Godly Manliness in a Broken World

A Father’s Responsibility

A Marriage Made in Hell

A Marriage Made in Heaven

The Daily Devotions Dilemma

Rebel under Your Roof

Ready, Set, Leave Home

Meet the Most Important Father in the World

A Father’s Prayer at His Son’s or Daughter’s Wedding

Chapter 1

Daddy on the Hot Seat

Take to heart all the words by which I am warning you today, that you may command them to your children, that they may be careful to do all the words of this law. For it is no empty word for you, but your very life.

—Moses, at the end of his life, Deuteronomy 32:46–47

Nearly all new babies enter the world because a man had a very pleasurable experience with a woman. It’s almost like getting a paycheck before doing the work. Sadly, too many men in our society never show up for the work.

But the children that result from a man’s pleasure with a woman do not raise themselves. God gave children fathers and mothers to shelter and guide them so they would grow up to be responsible adults who are able to continue building the kingdom of God… And fathers have been assigned the leading role for getting that job done.

This is a book about men at war. It is a war that can be won only by those who believe the God of the Bible has placed on men the task of passing on their faith to the next generation—men who are willing to take full responsibility for their wives and their children, to fight for them, to live their own lives by biblical standards they know in advance will put them in conflict with contemporary social influences.

In short, this is an action plan for men willing to follow the leadership of the warrior-priest God of the Bible. These pages will provide biblical instructions for fathers to take charge of their families and lead them under God through the relentless attacks of a modern seducing culture that is determined to destroy