Father's Day is a day to remember that God made dads. And when they break, and they can and often do, only He can fix them. 2 Samuel 18:24-19.2; Proverbs 17:6; Ephesians 6:1-4The Bible is very practical and plain, sometimes disturbingly so. Like in the Continue Reading
December 29, 2011 Leave a Comment
“What Would You Say to My Husband if You were a Young Seminarian Again?”
Dear Students in the Gospel of Christ: Recently, I was asked by a young wife and mother to write some thoughts on ministry reflections for her husband, a seminarian. Specifically, this godly young woman wanted me to answer the question, "As you look back Continue Reading
June 18, 2011 Leave a Comment
Oh for Priest-Like Fathers Sharing the Light of Christ!
There’s a wonderful phrase in the old King James where Paul said “Quit ye like men.” Of course, what that really means is “stand fast,” or as an old country preacher said, “Stand on your hind legs and act like a man!” The storied Scottish Continue Reading
March 12, 2010
Oh My Son!
The cry of the heart of the man of God is not only a cry for a cause, but also a cry of pain and a cry of hope in the midst of pain. And so we read from the Word of God: 2 Samuel 18.33; 2 amuel 23.5; John 16.33 After the rebellion of his third son Continue Reading
December 17, 2009
Tiger Woods and the Only Vote that Counts
So Tiger Woods is now the Athlete of the Decade. Great. How did Doug Ferguson put it in his AP article? “Even as a sex scandal changed the way people look at Woods, the records he set could not be ignored.”[1] Well, Mike Strain, senior editor of the Continue Reading
June 11, 2009
Transforming Fatherhood
While listening to a Mother’s Day sermon in 1909, Sonora Louise Smart Dodd was thinking of her father: a Civil War veteran and a farmer, he was also a single dad to 6 children. She began to work to get a day to honor fathers. The Lion’s Club helped to Continue Reading
April 26, 2007 Leave a Comment
Growing a Father
The following pastoral letter appeared five years ago in the weekly bulletin of First Presbyterian Church of Chattanooga. As I read it now, I am reminded of the moment in my life. It is like finding an old Polaroid snapshot in a drawer, long forgotten, Continue Reading
