John the Baptizer and John Richard “There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.” Allow me to stretch that introduction of John the Baptizer in John 1:6 into a description of my father, John Richard. The latter entered his heavenly reward for his earthly labor 17 days short of his 95th birthday […]
Preparing to Be a Father When You Have a Disability There’s no getting around it: Parenting is hard—especially if you’ve never done it before. The stress that comes with caring for your little one can be overwhelming. But if you ask anyone who has children, they will tell you the joys far outweigh the challenges. […]
Holt Haynesworth So, I guess I was one or two when they got divorced, and there was a lot of drugs and alcohol involved in that early scene. My father eventually died of alcoholism in my arms years later. You know, at that time it was just too much for my mother to be around, […]
Perfect happiness BEATITUDES…are defined as supreme blessedness or a state of utmost bliss. It is more than just being happy; lots of things give you earthly happiness. They are exalted happiness. The origin in Latin means perfect happiness. You get the point; it’s an awesome, life altering experience. But what can cause such blessedness? Well, […]
Marital Expectations The only advice I ever got on being married was a question my dad asked me on the way to the church. “Got anything for birth control, son?” I came to marriage with a very different set of expectations from my original wife who is the mother of my sons. I grew up […]
Lack of biblical truth A HOUSE DIVIDED…falls. We have either heard this, seen or experienced it. The most visible one that is at work today is the deep division in our country. It has become vicious. Well-funded factions are trying to undermine and destroy the 242 years of constitutional government. It seems to have gotten […]
Stability I titled this “Being a dad is a marathon”. It’s the greatest race. I should probably parenthetically suggest that I’m on mile 14. I’ve got a long way to go. Dads are vital to kids’ development, as we all know, and the absence of dads is what’s scarring society. Let me pray first. “Father […]
Dear friend, With much praise and enthusiasm, we give thanks to the Lord for what He has done through the ministry of Abiding Fathers in the first half of 2018! Your faithful stewardship, through your generous prayers and financial support, is helping encourage, equip and engage fathers to steward their gifts in their homes, families […]
When lightening strikes CLAPS of THUNDER…is what follows lightning varying seconds later. The way I’ve been taught is to count slowly: one and two and three etc. Each second is supposedly one mile in distance from the point of lightning. Seems reasonable. Duck, and seek low ground or shelter if they are simultaneous. Sound is […]
Prideful thinking Hunkering down…is an interesting expression. It is more related to males than females in my experience. To hunker down is ‘to stay in a place for a period of time’, ‘to seek shelter’, maybe in a violent storm or heavy winds. When I was a child, our family had a storm shelter to […]