Hardships of Job and Paul In the ninth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, Teth, in Psalm 119, we see an amazing thing. Most of us like to believe that God does not inflict anything on us but that everything that happens, especially negative, is caused by others or the evil one. We saw in Job […]
Proclaim the gospel As Joanne and I were worshiping today, the thought came to me; we are being preached the word, we are gathered for fellowship and worship, and we leave; for what purpose? As we walk out of the church or the sanctuary, are we just feeling good about ourselves, clean, mentally checking off […]
Redeeming Fatherhood This past Friday we had a wonderful Legacy Luncheon featuring Dr. Ramesh Richard speaking on “Redeeming Fatherhood”. Leading up to the event, I continued to have this overriding thought concerning the ministry of Abiding Fathers. We believe that we have been called to be a part of a movement of God for fatherhood discipleship. And […]
The Blessing When someone I just met tells me to ‘have a blessed day’, I know I’m most likely speaking to a believer. There is something very spiritual about the word; blessed, or blessing. Many families, mostly Christian, pray a blessing at mealtime. Rare to see that in public today. But pronouncing blessings is good […]
A successful life Hi. I’m Joe Foster and I’m still here by God’s grace, 100 percent. So, I want to share some information about a study that was done on what makes a successful life, and the study took 75 years. A book was published on this study called “Triumphs of Experience: The Men of […]
Encouragement through blessings Encouragement…comes in many different forms. It can be as little as a thumbs up gesture, pat on the back, words like ‘well done’, a hug, prayer or just sitting and listening. I get encouragement every day from something or some person or persons. Just today, I went to a Restoration Outreach Dallas […]
Nothing much of what I’m going to say is original to me and so it’s a case study. I copy and steal everything. It’s proved helpful as most of us journey along and learn from our churches or our schools, or our mentors or friends. A lot of what I’m going to say is borrowed […]
This is part 5 of the ‘Offender Series’. Welcome to the Be The Dad Podcast. We’re going to listen and learn from incarcerated men, many who have felt the effects of having an absentee father. These men have been taught about the importance of the role of a father, through reading the book From Faith to […]