Confronting the father who abandoned you
A young man I'll call Dave was a member of the mission team I led to Swaziland in 2004. One day he stood in front of his classroom in Swaziland. Befor...
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A young man I'll call Dave was a member of the mission team I led to Swaziland in 2004. One day he stood in front of his classroom in Swaziland. Befor...
In the Christian school our kids attended, they sometimes stood out. Once when I discovered that one of our daughters was having a more exclusive r...
I just turned 49. Somewhere in my 40's, I looked in the mirror and an aging man with thinning hair and crow's feet peered back at me. ...
"For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship. And by him we cry, ‘Abba, Father.'" ...
Third in a series on fathering We all incur wounds at the hands of our fathers. Even the best fathers have their shortcomings, leaving some sort of...
Second in a series on fathering Perhaps one of the most prevalent needs of a child for their father is to have someone to "launch" them into the wo...
First in a series on fathering If you're a teenager, you can easily pick out all the ways in which your father is letting you down. But what does a...
Just back home and jet-lagged from Swaziland. I left my friend Tom and the team behind to continue the work. Here is another video update from Tom. He...
After flying 18 hours to South Africa, we went to an archetypical African worship service. It was great - the atmospherics were perfect. We crossed a ...
In an earlier blog, I described one of the key roles of a father, that of giving his children the sacred no. This gets them through the first phase o...