Husbands and Dads: Love Like Jesus

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Making Biblical Family Life Practical
with Hal & Melanie Young

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In this timely and thoughtful episode, Hal and Melanie Young address the essential question: What does the Bible actually teach about the role of husbands and fathers?

Rather than reacting to cultural noise or popular teachers, Hal and Melanie walk listeners through Scripture—examining marriage, leadership, submission, love, and fatherhood as God designed them. This conversation challenges extremes, rejects abuse of authority, and calls families back to Christ-like, self-sacrificial leadership rooted in love.

What We Talk About in This Episode

• Why current controversies make it essential to return to Scripture

• Men and women created together in the image of God (Genesis 1:27)

• Equality before God does not mean sameness of roles

• What biblical submission actually means—and what it does not mean

• Why Scripture never teaches “women submit to men”

• Mutual submission among believers (Ephesians 5:21)

• The husband’s calling to love sacrificially like Christ (Ephesians 5:25)

• Why leadership in the home must never enable sin or abuse

• Honoring wives as fellow heirs of the grace of life (1 Peter 3:7)

• Marriage as friendship, partnership, and shared mission

• Loving rebuke, accountability, and spiritual maturity in marriage

• Biblical fatherhood: guidance without harshness or domination

• Why fathers are warned not to provoke or discourage their children

• Helping children grow into adults who follow God—not parental control

• Shifting from authority over children to influence and counsel

• Modeling Christ-like leadership through humility and service

Key Scripture References

• Genesis 1:27

• Galatians 3:28

• Ephesians 5:21–25

• Ephesians 6:1–4

• 1 Peter 3:7

• Colossians 3:19–21

• 1 Corinthians 7:2–4

• 1 Corinthians 13

• Proverbs 27:17

• Acts 5:29

Recommended Resource

The Bible speaks about marriage as a partnership, like two horses pulling in harness together. It’s a good image of shared purpose and common goals – but we need to be sure we spend time face-to-face as well as shoulder-to-shoulder! Isn’t it time to really look at one another and think about yourselves as a couple – not just partners in parenting and colleagues in the business of home life?

To help that along, we came up with a little project we call Lovebirdseed. You’ll get a weekly email with suggestions for things you can talk about or do together that will bring you closer again. Some are memories to share, some are questions to discuss, some are memories to make. And nearly all of them are things that we’ve done and discussed in our own time as a couple!

Just wanted you to know that I’ve (we’ve) been enjoying Lovebirdseed! It comes to my e-mail, so my husband never sees the e-mail…but he sees the results. We’ll celebrate 32 years of marriage in August, and these reminders of our early days, weeks, years have been very good for me (us). Thanks for all you do!

We’re offering this for free, because we want to help you keep or build or rebuild the sort of friendship that marriage should be. Just give us your email address and we’ll add you to our newsletter list, plus send you the first suggestion right away! Then you’ll get another suggestion every few days to help you build a deeper and deeper friendship with your mate.

Get your Lovebirdseed here.

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About the Show

Making Biblical Family Life Practical equips families to apply God’s Word to everyday life with clarity, grace, and faithfulness.

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