Sermon Encore
October 8th, 2008My apologies for being a little late on this week’s Sermon Encore. Last Sunday morning I delivered a lesson entitled “Reviving Parenthood.” Here are some statistics related to fathers that I didn’t have time to share in the lesson:
For three decades America has increased her fatherless homes to the point that 23,000,000 children will be sleeping in fatherless homes tonight. And what are the results? Single-mother families are five times more likely to be poor, ten times more likely to go to fail, and three times more likely to have children as teenagers. While only 24% of children come from fatherless homes, 85% of all children that exhibit behavioral disorders come from fatherless homes. 71% of high school dropouts come from fatherless homes. 85% of youths in prisons grew up without a father.
The moral, dads, is this: If you want to change the world, stay home!