Why Your Marriage Has to Die First | Virgil Walker on Faithful Husbands, Fatherlessness, and the Quiet Cost of Leading Well

Virgil Walker spent a decade inpharmaceutical sales on track to become a vice president. He noticed that mostof the men ahead of him had been through at least one divorce. Something got sacrificed along the way. It was not always an affair. More often, it was the job. He made a different choice.Virgil is now a pastor and theologian at Redeemer Bible Church in Phoenix, co-host of Fearless with JasonWhitlock on Blaze Media, and host of the Just Thinking podcast. He has been married to Tamika for thirty years. He will tell you it nearly did not happen that way.In this conversation Virgil and Dee Dee talk about what it costs to lead a family well, why fatherlessness isthe crisis no one is being honest about, what the word submission actually meant before the culture got hold of it, and what happens when a woman finally reaches the end of her rope.Virgil also talks about the man in Augusta who waited in line at a men's conference until the room was empty,just to ask: I am doing everything right and nothing is working. What do I do now? And he answers.Topics: Marriage and Covenant  |  Faithful Leadership  | Fatherlessness and the Church  |  Submission in Ephesians 5  |  Holy Ambition  |  Generational Legacy  | Pharma to PastoringMore Than One Way to Live aPrincipled Life  |  Fort Collins, CO