Podcast - The Greg Lancaster Show, Live from the Glory Zone.

Greg, John, and Pat share about a discovery for the cause of gun violence in Chicago. CBN reports that men and ministries in Chicago are working together to address the root cause of gun violence in their city. They found it is the breakdown of family. An estimated 24.7 million children live absent from their biological father. It is said that two years after divorce 51% of children in sole mother custody homes only see their father once or twice a year, or never. It is also said that 42 % of the fathers fail to see their children at all after divorce. They continue to share even more statistics of the result of fatherlessness in America. We need to support fathers and respect them. They continue to encourage fathers to stick, stay and stand even when it stinks. Don't give up, fall on your knees and cry out to God.

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STATE OF FATHERHOOD AND HIS PRESENCE

An estimated 24.7 million children live absent from their biological father.

--Source: National Fatherhood Initiative, Father Facts, (3rd Edition): 5. The 1997 Gallup Youth Survey found the following among U.S. teens:

Two years after divorce, 51% of children in sole mother custody homes only see their father once or twice a year, or never. [Guidubaldi, 1989; Guidubaldi, 1988; Guidubaldi, Perry, & Nastasi, 1987.]

42% of fathers fail to see their children at all after divorce.

[Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr. and Christine Winguist Nord, "Parenting Apart," Journal of Marriage and the Family, vol 47, no. 4, November, 1985.]

According to 72.2 % of the U.S. population, fatherlessness is the most significant family or social problem facing America.

-Source: National Center for Fathering, Fathering in America Poll, January, 1999.

43% of urban teens live away from their father.

--Source: Youthviews, Gallup Youth Survey 4 (June, 1997).

90% of homeless and runaway children are from fatherless homes. [U.S. D.H.H.S., Bureau of the Census.]

80% of rapists motivated with displaced anger come from fatherless homes. [Criminal Justice & Behavior, Vol 14, p. 403-26, 1978.]

60% of repeat rapists grew up without fathers.

Raymond A. Knight and Robert A. Prentky, "The Developmental Antecednts of Adult Adaptations of Rapist Sub-Types," Criminal Justice and Behavior, Vol 14, Dec., 1987, p 403-426.

71% of pregnant teenagers lack a father.

[US Dept. of Health & Human Services press release, Friday, March 26, 1999.]

63% of youth suicides are from fatherless homes.

[US D.H.H.S., Bureau of the Census.]

85% of children who exhibit behavioral disorders come from fatherless homes.

[Center for Disease Control]

90% of adolescent repeat arsonists live with only their mother.

[Wray Herbert, "Dousing the Kindlers," Psychology Today, January, 1985, p.28.]

71% of high school dropouts come from fatherless homes.

[National Principals Association Report on the State of High Schools.]

75% of adolescent patients in chemical abuse centers come from fatherless homes.

[Rainbows for all God`s Children.]

70% of juveniles in state operated institutions have no father.

[US Dept. of Justice, Special Report, Sept. 1988.]

85% of youths in prisons grew up in a fatherless home.

[Fulton Co. Georgia jail populations, Texas Dept. of Corrections, 1992.]

75% of prisoners grew up without a father.

Daniel Amneus, The Garbage Generation, Alhambra, CA: Primrose Press, 1990.

43% of US children live without their father.

[US Department of Census]

More than one-half of all children who don't live with their father have never been in their father's home.

Frank Furstenberg and Andrew Cherlin, Divided Families: What Happens to Children When Parents Part (Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1991)

Adolescent females between the ages of 15 and 19 years reared in homes without fathers are significantly more likely to engage in premarital sex than adolescent females reared in homes with both a mother and a father.

--Source: Billy, John O. G., Karin L. Brewster and William R. Grady. "Contextual Effects on the Sexual Behavior of Adolescent Women." Journal of Marriage and Family 56(1994): 381-404.

According to a Gallup Poll, 90.3 percent of Americans agree that "fathers make a unique contribution to their children's lives."

Gallup Poll, 1996. National Center for Fathering. "Father Figures." Today's Father 4.1 (1996):8.

A study assessing the level of adaptation of one-year olds found that, when left with a stranger, children whose fathers were highly involved were less likely to cry, worry, or disrupt play than other one-year olds whose fathers were less involved. Kotelchuk, M. "The Infant's Relationship to His Father: Experimental Evidence." The Role of the Father in Child Development. by Michael Lamb. 2nd ed. New York: Wiley, 1981.

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Greg, John, and Pat share about how a U.S. quarter size mosquito called Gallinipper and how it is poised to reach Florida this summer. It is being reported that being bit by this mosquito is like being knifed. They continue to speak about how this is just another fulfillment of prophetic prophecy namely one shared by John Paul Jackson in the Perfect Storm. The good thing is that they don't carry diseases.

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Greg, John, and Pat speak about Revivalist Steve Hill's new book Spiritual Avalanche. God gave Steve a vision while on his death bed of the dangers of heretical teachings that are present in the church and if action is not taken by God's generals to take down the avalanche of deceptive teachings, millions could possibly be killed. It's time to step up and declare the truth. We are called to be loyal to Jesus. Salvation is free but it will cost you everything.

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Daylight savings time was first introduced during WWI to conserve resources. It wasn't until 1966 with the Uniform Time Act that daylight savings time became standard. Greg, John, and Pat share with us that during the 8 months of daylight savings time we will have had an extra 224 hours of sunlight. The question is, what will we do with the extra sunlight? They encourage us to get outdoors, exercise, and go for walks so that you can be more fruitful in the Kingdom of God. Don't waste time; invest your time. Use the extra daylight to share with others about God's amazing love for them.

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Greg, John, and Pat discuss how God holds the water at bay, keep the stars in their place and calms and gives direction of the wind. They continue to discuss the movie, The Impossible. The movie was about a family on vacation who without warning was caught by a Tsunami that resulted in the family being divided leaving the 12 year old son to care for his mother. They continue to share all the tragedies and challenges the family had to overcome. Things like parasites and illnesses as a result of the Tsunami. They continue to discuss all the possible things that can happen to us and how often times we neglect that God is the one who keeps so much harm from us. He is in total control. They encourage us not to take God for granted. We can always sleep well when recognize God is in control.

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John and Pat share about the Top 3 Stories on the VFN Torch on March 8, 2013:

Things that make you say Hmm, really Christians

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John, Pat, and Chris discuss how God made us to with a social quality that enables us to communicate thoughts, feelings, and ideas with others and to receive encouragement from the thoughts, feelings, and ideas of others. However, we must not lose sight of the fact that God also created us to commune with Him. God desires not to just listen to us but he desires to share his thoughts, feelings, truth, knowledge, wisdom, direction, guidance, warnings and his love with us. Prayer is the door way that gives us access to this communion with God. You are his treasured possession. They continue to share things we need to know in order to hear the voice of God as well as things can hinder our abiding with him.

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Pat, John, and Chris discuss the persistent faith of the Canaanite woman in Matthew 15:21-28. This woman had a need and asked Jesus to set her demon possessed daughter free. Jesus basically told her that He was called to a particular people group yet because of her persistent faith and refusal to be offended Jesus healed her daughter. She had faith that didn't quit. They continue to share the need and importance of having faith that keeps moving on and refuses to quit and give up because things didn't happen right away.

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John, Pat and Chris discussed why so many Venezuelans loved Hugo Chavez. Many have been seen mourning, crying, and one woman even calling him father. Oil is a natural resource for Venezuela and many Venezuelans according to CNN Money feel that cheap gas is their right. Could it be that many loved deceased President Hugo Chavez because of the things the state has subsidies to its citizen's, even gas at 4 cents a gallon. No one knows if the gas subsidies will continue but the last time they were stopped it resulted in a riot requiring the military to come in. They continue to discuss why socialism does not work and that it sets the government up to replace God. The citizens become totally dependent on the government for their needs and not God.

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John, Pat, and Chris share about how lawmakers of both parties crossed the aisle and passed legislation in North Carolina that would allow public High School student to take the Bible as a course. The Bible will be offered as an elective and it will be eligible for a letter grade.

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