My brother is a father of two. He’s a great Dad. He doesn’t believe it himself, but that’s typically him. I was told I was a decent Dad by someone (no, not my Mum), but I wasn’t completely convinced, but that’s typically me. What both my brother and I would agree was we have a […]
Read More Pleasing To The FatherMy middle daughter is 8 years old. She is a lot bigger and heavier than when she was four years old. She’s a lot more street-smart and savvy. She gets into spots of minor bother from time to time. A lot more than when she was four years ago. Yet even as she settles to […]
Read More Always Be Worth ItJesus gets a great deal of attention and rightly so. In chapter 5 Jesus starts antagonising the Jewish leaders because of the sheer temerity of equating Himself with the Father. Indeed He talks about His relationship to such a close degree He essentially says everything He does comes from His Father. It’s bad enough ‘breaking […]
Read More The Word In John: 5 – Like Father Like SonTrue story. I never saw myself being a Dad at all. I barely saw myself as a married man and children never entered my thinking beyond a nominal acknowledgement that as part of the rites of passage I would need to contribute to children entering the world. It won’t be long until my first born […]
Read More Ten Things I Love About Being A DadWe were seated in a semi circle enjoying the summer breeze in the evening. The conversation got round to what happens when the children grow up and have lifestyles that go against the values with which they were brought up. It was fascinating listening to the various views on what we do when our hearts […]
Read More A Reflection On The Prodigal Son: Bungee JumpingRecently a few of us were reflecting on God as Father. It was stunning to read Genesis 1 and Luke 3 noticing that in as much as to the rest of creation God is Creator, when God made Adam His relationship to Him was that of a loving Father. It is unfortunate that there are […]
Read More Gaining Great Wisdom From Flawed Father FiguresSee what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 1 John 3:1 It’s not as though there is no good pattern for fatherhood. Check the […]
Read More Say What You See: Faithful FatherhoodThe nature of the life we lead can often be very demanding. Responsibilities require energy to carry them out. Loving people is not done without expending something of yourself in it. That takes a toll. This is why it was a genius part of the human set-up to require a number of hours of sleep […]
Read More It’s Very Good From Time To Time To RestIt has been a really tiring but interesting past few days. The highlight was yesterday attending the blessing of my niece. It was one of the rare occasions when my sister, brother and I were in the same place at the same time. I love my siblings heaps and heaps so the three of us […]
Read More Grateful For The Blessing Of Being A ChildThe mistake I made was going to the service thinking I could just slip in, sit and take in the God-stuff and slip out again without anything major happening. It’s not a mistake I make often, but it is a mistake I made that day. The preacher was passionately declaring what God had put on […]
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