Category: Manhood
Fathers: The Original “Children’s Ministers”
“What do you have for my children?” As a pastor, I have been asked that question numerous times by well-meaning parents. Essentially, they want to know what ministries the church offers for children. Their desire for the spiritual good of their kids is commendable and some...
Fathering “by the Book”
Comedian Bill Cosby once said, If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right. I’m sure (or at least I hope) Mr....
A Wake-up Call to Husbands in Hibernation
Does the following anonymous piece, titled “The Wall,” describe your marriage? Their wedding pictures mocked them from the table, these two, whose minds no longer touched each other. They lived with such a heavy barricade between them that neither battering ram of words nor artilleries of...
A Father’s Spiritual Advice
On his 20th birthday, I gave my son a copy of the letter I had written him when he was just one year old. The challenges I set out for him at age one are unchanged 19 years later. I’ve excerpted portions of that “spiritual yardstick”...
