The effect of a father What we are observing today is a steady decline in morality, ethics, mental health, both personal and in corporate life. To me, it matches the decline in the impact that the church is having on our society. The young people, especially, are turning away from anything to do with the […]
Division in America Sometime back, I heard a gentleman speak on the issue of division in America. He said, correctly, that in the past, America has been united when there’s an outside enemy, such as during the world wars. He said the problem today is that we are our enemy. Therefore there is division. Personally, […]
Absentee father When I first was led by the Lord to write From Faith to Faith, I believed that the number one issue in America was the absentee father. Having spent the past fifty years teaching Biblical truth to men in Texas prisons, juvenile detention centers and homeless shelters, I’m still convinced of this as […]
Foreknowledge I am always amazed by God’s foreknowledge. Not sure why, he is Omniscient!! He has a plan for his Kingdom and it cannot be thwarted. Recently, our daughter Becky sent me some notes from my study Bible from years back. I had given it to her and she had been reviewing certain passages. What […]
The root People from time to time ask me and others engaged in Abiding Fathers and Padre de Corazón, ‘just what do y’all do and what are you about?’ We explain in several ways that we are about engaging, equipping and encouraging the next generation of fathers to be the dad that God wants them to be. […]
God’s heart One of my earlier pastors used to share this in some of his sermons. “What goes deepest to your heart goes widest to the world.” I used to dwell on this and try to fully understand it. But as I was serving for several decades in prisons teaching the word of God and […]
Prejudice vs. murder SELECTIVE MORALITY…is running rampant throughout American society today. Earlier this week, after ending my time in the word and prayer, I opened my phone to do several things, one of which was to see what was going on in the world. The first news item was the people of Virginia calling for […]
Reflection ANNIVERSARIES…are a time of remembrance, reflecting back on what has gone before, what has brought one to this time and place. And I believe the longer the period, the more revered it is. We have had many over the life of our nation, and more keeps getting added. 4th of July, Pearl Harbor, D-Day, […]
Role of a father MEN…are the male species of mankind. Is that all? Far from it! But somehow in our strangely confused culture, some don’t realize the significance of being a man. And it is really showing up in families. The man’s role as the father is slowly being abdicated to a third party, mainly […]
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, […]