{"id":6053,"date":"2016-08-16T03:48:44","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/the-father-they-want\/"},"modified":"2016-08-16T03:48:44","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:48:44","slug":"the-father-they-want","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/the-father-they-want\/","title":{"rendered":"THE\n  FATHER THEY WANT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>Topics:<\/b> Children; Desires; Family; Fathers; Girls; Love; Needs; Single Moms<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>References:<\/b> Proverbs 17:6; Ephesians 6:4; Colossians 3:21<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>The enormous response to Bob Carlisle\u2019s 1996 ballad \u201cButterfly Kisses,\u201d which speaks of the tender love between a father and his daughter, makes Carlisle feel sad.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>\u201cI get a lot of mail from young girls who try to get me to marry their moms,\u201d he says. \u201cThat used to be a real chuckle because it\u2019s so cute, but then I realized they don\u2019t want a romance for mom; they want the father who is in that song. That just kills me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal'>\u2014Mary A. Kassian, \u201cFather of the Fatherless,\u201d <i>Journal for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood<\/i> (Spring 2000)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Topics: Children; Desires; Family; Fathers; Girls; Love; Needs; Single Moms References: Proverbs 17:6; Ephesians 6:4; Colossians 3:21 The enormous response to Bob Carlisle\u2019s 1996 ballad \u201cButterfly Kisses,\u201d which speaks of the tender love between a father and his daughter, makes Carlisle feel sad. \u201cI get a lot of mail from young girls who try to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/the-father-they-want\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;THE<br \/>\n  FATHER THEY WANT&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}