Faith Commander: Living Five Values from the Parables of Jesus
By Korie Robertson and Chrys Howard
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The Robertson Family Helps You Build a Faith-Shaped Life …
Join the Robertson men of the hit television show, Duck Dynasty®, as they tell stories and discuss some of the Bible’s most-loved parables. In this five-session video-based small group Bible study (DVD/digital video sold separately), you and your small group will learn about faith-based values and how to apply them to your life.
Session Titles
- Redonkulous Faith (Jase)
- Radical Forgiveness (Alan and Jep)
- Ravenous Prayer (Phil)
- Real Obedience (Uncle Si)
- Rowdy Kindness (Willie)
Designed to be used with the Faith Commander Video Study (sold separately).
Korie Robertson
Korie Robertson is known for her role on A&E’s hit reality television series Duck Dynasty. The mother of six is known for her domestic and international philanthropic work and serves on the board of Help One Now, an organization dedicated to ending extreme poverty and caring for orphans worldwide. Korie and her husband, Willie Robertson, CEO of Duck Commander®, are active advocates for adoption and foster care, having adopted two of their own children, and were honored for their work at the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute’s (CCAI) Angels in Adoption® gala in Washington, DC in 2013. They now serve on the CCAI board. Korie and Willie also founded the Drive Adoption fund in 2016, which was created to promote domestic and international adoption awareness and education. Korie oversees several business ventures including the local Louisiana-based retail store Duck & Dressing. She also serves as a spokesperson and advocate for women on behalf of the natural skincare line made for women of all ages, Naturmetic. Korie is a New York Times bestselling author whose writing credits include The Women of Duck Commander, Faith Commander: Living Five Values from the Parables of Jesus, The Duck Commander Family: How Faith, Family, and Ducks Built a Dynasty, Duck Commander Devotions for Kids,and Strong and Kind: Raising Kids of Character. Follow Korie online @bosshogswife or www.duckcommander.com.
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Faith Commander - Korie Robertson
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We would like to thank our friend and children’s minister, LinDee Loveland, for her incredible contribution to Willie’s Redneck Rodeo. She is a bottomless pit of great ideas and blesses our lives every day. Our children love Miss LinDee and we do too!
We would also like to thank Karen Lee-Thorp and Cindy Bultema. What a blessing to have such talented women help us on the Faith Commander adult and teen books (Karen), and children’s curriculum (Cindy). They caught the vision and ran with it. You both are amazing!
A special thank you to the video crew, T. J. Rathbun, Jay Irwin, and John Pottenger, who came to Louisiana to capture who the Robertsons really are.
And to Alan, Jase, Willie, Jep, Si, Phil, Reed, John Luke, Sadie, Cole, and Will who took time out of their busy lives to lend a voice to this project. You guys are awesome men of God, and Sadie, you’re an awesome God-girl!
Thank you, John Raymond, for your faith in this project and for your desire to get it right
for the sake of the adults and children who we pray will be blessed by it. You and your entire team have been amazing to work with. We couldn’t have asked for a better experience.
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FIVE GREAT STORIES
We love a good story. In the Robertson family, about the time you start learning to tie your shoes is when you start listening to good stories. Later you get your chance to tell a good story. Our stories involve experiences we have gone through, taken from the ordinary things we deal with every day, but often made bigger than life to make them more fun. There may also be some surprise twists to keep you guessing. But the secret to a really good story is that it will have a point that will stay with you for the rest of your life.
It’s no surprise, then, that we love Jesus’s stories. He called them parables, which means they compare something to something else. Parables aim straight for the heart and can change yours if you let them. Think of a parable as an earthly story with a heavenly meaning from our Faith Commander: Jesus.
In this book we’re going to look at five of Jesus’s parables. We’re going to peel them back so you can feel how outrageous they were when Jesus first told them. Then we’re going to dig deep into what they tell us about how to live. Each parable deals with a value that is foundational to the way our family lives: faith, forgiveness, prayer, obedience, and kindness. Willie and I (Korie) both come from big families, and these five values are some of the main things that hold our families together. We’ll be telling some true stories about the Robertson family to show you how we try to live these values.
If you’ve heard these parables before, we hope you’ll let them hit you fresh. And if you’ve never heard them before, you’re in for a treat. Not even Si can tell a better story than Jesus.
CHAPTER 1
REDONKULOUS FAITH
My (Korie’s) in-laws, Miss Kay and Phil, set an example of faith that never stops amazing me. They got married when Miss Kay was just sixteen and Phil was seventeen. He headed off to Louisiana Tech University on a football scholarship, and she went with him. Being young was hard enough, but it was the 1960s, and college introduced Phil to drinking and drugs. When he was drunk he was angry, and Miss Kay was scared.
Their baby Alan was born, then Jase, then Willie. Phil kept drinking. In his twenties, Phil came to own a beer joint, and Miss Kay was a barmaid who didn’t drink, fighting for her marriage while Phil’s behavior went out of control.
A man with a Bible came to see Phil at the bar, and Phil ran him off. Miss Kay, though, decided to entrust her life to God as things with Phil went from bad to worse. She told her boys, That’s not your daddy. That’s the devil in your daddy.
Phil got into a barroom brawl and fled to the woods to escape the law. Later he actually made Miss Kay and her boys move out of the family house because he said they were cramping his lifestyle. But Phil was miserable and wanted a way out of the drinking and anger. Eventually he took Miss Kay’s advice and sat down with the Bible-carrying pastor who had visited his bar.
Phil, what do you think the gospel is?
the pastor asked.
I don’t know,
Phil said, gospel music on the radio?
The pastor explained to him how Jesus was born of a virgin, died on the cross, was buried, and was raised from the dead. Phil was blown away by the idea that Jesus died for him and was raised. They were sitting in the baptistery of the church, and Phil said, I’m going to make Jesus the Lord of my life. I want to follow him from this day forward.
Miss Kay and the three boys were downstairs in the church, and they heard what Phil said. When Phil was baptized, the boys began hollering and shouting, My daddy’s saved! My daddy’s saved!
Phil was saved — and in another way, the whole family was saved from the consequences of Phil’s old life.
It took a strength of faith that Mom and I call redonkulous for Miss Kay to hold onto her marriage for years until Phil took that step. It took a tiny seed of redonkulous faith for Phil to believe that the gospel of Jesus was reliable to set the direction of his new life. Phil trusted that what he’d learned about Jesus was true, and as he began to act on it, his faith grew.
I love this story because it shows me how a tiny bit of real redonkulous faith can change everything. My life, and my husband Willie’s life, would be so different today if Miss Kay hadn’t hung onto God and if Phil hadn’t taken that first step.
Faith is the number-one value our family seeks to live by. Faith isn’t just a church word; you and I use faith many times a day in the most ordinary situations. For instance, Miss Kay loves to cook, and when she cooks she follows a recipe. She has used her recipes over and over, and she has