I said rules or no food in the fridge right in the wee, but Marty's not here to fix me a sandwich and I thought that's pathetic is what I thought you would be shocked at how many marriages and how many homes were the men are missing in action and by the way don't feel like if you're a guy here got all why did I come today, this guy's gonna slam me. I think high school at the time and I came back and he was just really ticked off and he been there all day. My dad couldn't pick out his own clothes, a member one time sitting later in their marriage. He was a great athlete and it was a very strong man but my mom ran everything in our home.

Mom had the same kind of needs and I've researched the family quite a bit as I grew up in one of those dysfunctional kind of families and my dad was a very good guy but he was a passive dad. Father, I mean, she had needs to be loved and encouraged and to know what it looks like to be cherished and that just wasn't there. And as I got to know that girl I I saw the incredible deficits that occurred because the gaps of a missing in action. We pray every day that someday he'll come back and I'll have a husband that you have a dad I but we just don't know.

There was a picture on the mantle of a very good looking guy had a military uniform and his hat on the smile and and I just casually said was that in her face really changed in less my dad and I thought what it made guy say something wrong and her mom said what you do understand that that's her dad but he's been missing in action in Vietnam for number of years now and so were kind of in limbo. She was couple years younger than me and I went over to her house and her mom and as I walked in small talk. Chip continues a series marriage that works with a message designed to help us guys be both the husband and the man belong to become after the teaching trip joins us here in studio with some practical next apps so be sure to stay with us for that they'll extort your poorest talk is there a man of the house from Ephesians chapter 5 when I was in high school. Let me encourage you stay with thanks for joining us for this Tuesday vision of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Living on the Edge features the Bible teaching of Chip Ingram list daily discipleship program today.

Most of us didn't have good examples and most of us honestly don't know what it looks like I want to help you today. Hey guys were in a series on marriage today and I want to talk to you specifically ladies you can listen in, but it is tremendously difficult to be a godly man to know what it means to be a man and had the power to live that out.

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