Category: Fatherhood
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Paradise is Home, Home Is Paradise
Christian parents must not worry that they are too much in the flesh if they enjoy making their homes comfortable and pretty. Children should always remember their homes with tears of fondness, and this tear-evoking memory ought to be a memory of physical beauty as well as warm hugs. Indeed, Paradise and home are psychological…
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Wisdom
Wisdom In the Old Testament, the tool of training is the law but the goal of character training is Wisdom. Many have tried to define wisdom but most definitions beg the question by simply burying the definition in the premise. It is the ability to use knowledge correctly, some say (but what is “correctly”). Or,…
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Powerlessness
Parenthood should remove any doubt of the possibility of Hell, because all hell means is that it is possible to love mightily and still not win the heart of the one you love. Every parent experiences powerlessness as the child discovers privacy. By the time a child is 7 or 8 years old, the parent…
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The Liturgy of Fathers
God walked in Eden in the cool of the day. A Father ventures into the son’s world to enjoy his son’s work from that day. The father, now resting from his own work, the garden, loves to see how his son’s work adds to it. The son lives inside his father’s work, while adding his…
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The World Behind The Bush
In the Beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. But Adam created the world, when he crept behind the bush to hide from God. This was the first moment when a mortal chose a place where God is not, and created that place in the instant of so choosing it — the diabolical…