A Message to Fathers in 2020
Bob Lepine, Shaunti Feldhahn, FamilyLife President David Robbins, Bruce Goff, Keith Lynch, and Marques Holt share the good, the bad, the simple and the hard things about being a dad.
About the Guest
Bob Lepine
Bob Lepine is the Lead Pastor at Redeemer Community Church in Little Rock, Arkansas which he helped plant in 2008. He also serves on the Board of Directors for the Great Commission Collective, a church planting ministry connecting more than 150 churches world wide.
Bob also hosts Mornings on Family Radio, a network of more than 70 radio stations in the US. He is also well known to radio and podcast listeners as the long-time co-host of FamilyLife Today® and as the on-air announcer for Truth for Life with Alistair Begg. and as a member of the Revive Our Hearts Advistory Board. In 2022, he was inducted into the National Religious
Broadcasters Hall of Fame.
He is the author of Build A Stronger Marriage (2022), The Four Emotions of Christmas (2022) Love Like You Mean It: The Heart of a Marriage That Honors God (2020) and The Christian Husband (1999). Bob and his wife Mary Ann are the parents of five children and have ten grandchildren
Bruce Goff
Bruce Goff is a producer/editor with the FamilyLife® Audio Group. He’s worked on Passport2Identity™ and FamilyLife’s radio programs. He and his wife Maria have a daughter named Estelle.
David Robbins
David Robbins became president of Campus Crusade for Christ International and Cru in July 2024. He previously served as the president of FamilyLife, a ministry of Cru.
David joined the staff of Cru in 2000. He worked with university students at various universities in the United States and in Pisa, Italy. He served as a team leader and later a Regional Director of U.S. Campus Field Ministries, overseeing campus ministries across the Southeast region of the U.S.
He and his wife, Meg, helped launch Cru’s ministry to millennials in the multicultural setting of New York City in 2012. This strategy ministered to 20-somethings and worked with and through partnerships in the body of Christ. It grew to a network and spread nationwide, establishing teams in 15 other cities across the U.S., and was adopted by other nations.
David became president of FamilyLife in December 2017, building on the four-decade foundation of the FamilyLife ministry. He and Meg led the way to reach new generations of families and empower them to win, build and send through movements in the family space.
David received his bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Mississippi. David and Meg married in 2001 and live in Orlando, Florida, with their four children.
Marques Holt
Marques is a content and music producer for FamilyLife. He is married to his Jr High Sweetheart, Aveya and has 4 kids. He is also the Vice president of the non-profit ministry Crossover Movement.
Marques is also an Army veteran and loves serving the inner city.
Shaunti Feldhahn
Shaunti received her graduate degree from Harvard University and was an analyst on Wall Street before unexpectedly becoming a social researcher, best-selling author and popular speaker. Today, she applies her analytical skills to investigating eye-opening, life-changing truths about relationships, both at home and in the workplace. Her groundbreaking research-based books, such as For Women Only, have sold more than 3 million copies in 25 languages and are widely read in homes, counseling centers and corporations worldwide.
Shaunti’s findings are regularly featured in media as diverse as The Today Show and Focus on the Family, The New York Times and Cosmo. She (often with her husband, Jeff) speaks at 50 events a year around the world. Shaunti and her husband Jeff live in Atlanta with their teenage daughter and son, and two cats who think they are dogs.
About the Host
Michelle Hill
Radio has been ingrained in Michelle for most of her life. This love for radio has taken her to various radio stations and ministries in places like Chicago, Alaska and other snow covered terrains like her hometown in north central Iowa. In 2005 she landed on staff with Cru/FamilyLife®. While at FamilyLife she has overseen the expansion of FamilyLife Today® internationally, assisted with the creation of Passport2Identity™-Womanhood and is now the host of FamilyLife This Week®.
For the last 15+ years Michelle has been mentoring young women and is passionate about helping them find their identity in God. She also has a fascination for snowflakes and the color yellow. Michelle makes her home in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Episode Transcript
Bob: And she’ll go: “I think, here and there, you could have maybe said this better,” and “I had a question about this,” and “You maybe went too long here.” And then she’ll wrap it all up and say, “But it was good!”
Okay, now I’ve lived with her long enough to know that she really does—
Shaunti: —she means that! Yes, she does mean that; yes.
Bob: —she does think it’s good. And I have lived with her long enough to know that that constructive criticism is helpful; it’s helped sharpen me.
But I’ll tell you what—early on, that would have just/I’d have been in bed for the rest of the day! [Laughter]
[Studio]
Michelle: Oh, ladies! What a great reminder that our words have power to really affirm and build up the guy in our life or to tear him down, just as Bob was talking about, with constructive criticism. But it doesn’t just go one way; it’s for men and women—those words are powerful! There is a lot of power in our tongues.
Speaking of power in the tongue, FamilyLife president, David Robbins, spoke with me recently about his dad’s legacy. He also gave a charge of encouragement to all dads.
[Audio Recording]
David: Do everything we can to have an active, present walk with Jesus that spills out of us. One of the greatest gifts we can give is to stop playing any religious games we’re playing; to own up to however we’re encountering Him.
There are seasons, where we just persevere—and it’s a hard season; yet, even in those—how are we showing our kids: “This is hard! Let’s get on our knees”?
“I don’t experience an encounter with Jesus as this intimate, you know, right-here-with-me God; but yet I know He’s personal,”—so let’s keep pursuing Him. Whatever season we’re at, let’s bring our kids in on it, and let them watch us pursue God, and let us pursue Him really/authentically.
How are we being intentional?—rejecting passivity, embracing responsibility, and being intentional. If we don’t create spaces in our home, intentionally, how can we be the leaders in the home to create the intentional space for us to encounter intimacy with the covenant relationships that exist inside our four walls and experience intimacy with the God of the universe?
Easier said than done; I’m not saying it’s easy. Get honest with wherever you are, but let’s get honest! Let’s have an active faith that’s contagious. Let’s do whatever we can to posture ourselves to get it, and then let’s create intentional spaces.
[Studio]
Michelle: Important words from FamilyLife president, David Robbins.
Dad, I hope that you’ve heard our heart today—we love you. We love you for all that you are. We love you for your super powers that make you seem bigger than life. We love you for how your brain works, and how you keep everything rolling from day to day, and how you protect us. We also love you for when you admit you’re wrong and you ask us for forgiveness. Thank you! Thank you for leaving a legacy. Thank you for walking hard steps. We appreciate all that you do for us, here on Father’s Day.
Hey, I want to thank you for listening today! I want to thank the president of FamilyLife, David Robbins, for sharing those great words with us, and for our station partners around the country. A big “Thank you!” to our engineer/dad today, Keith Lynch. Thanks to our producers: Marques Holt, also a dad of four, who shared life can be overwhelming with kids! Our mastering engineer is Justin Adams, who is a father of three; and Megan Martin is our production coordinator.
Our program is a production of FamilyLife Today, and our mission is to effectively develop godly families who change the world one home at a time.
I’m Michelle Hill, inviting you to join us again next time for another edition of FamilyLife This Week.
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