The Perfect Model Of Fatherhood, Part I
First of a 3-Part-Series on fatherhood: With this introduction, I talk a bit about growing up without a consistent and positive role model as a father. We consider the message of Galatians 4:4-7 which describes God as a loving and intimate father who adopts us as his sons and daughters. This message is about 13 minutes in length. It may inspire you. It may cure your insomnia.
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1. The sun will set in the west.
2. In the USA, it will be darker outside at midnight than at noon.
3. Your local PBS station is on the verge of bankruptcy and you must call now.
4. A self-righteous, self-declared Jesus freak Republican politician is fucking someone outside of his marriage. And he's head of the Republican Governors’ Association! You're welcome.
Concerning Mark Sanford, this post has absolutely nothing to do with him. Nothing. Again, you rudely intrude with your silly little link. If you want to comment about him and his adultery, hypocrisy, etc. - why not write your own post? Perhaps you do not have the capacity to sufficiently compose and express your convictions? I don't know. It seems rather clear to me that you bear little resemblance to the Jesus you so ignorantly purport to represent. He would show a lot more respect and kindness.
As for the comment above, I have seen the first 3 lines elsewhere. line 4 should inspire: He who is without sin, cast the first stone. Let's pray for Governor Sanford's boys, they do not need an absent father. He would do well to reprise his role as father and husband.
Pastor Dave, this is a worthy subject. In light of the Sanford incident when you complete it, I think a short series on the duties of the husband would also be good.
That was quick. I wholeheartedly agree with you. The Sanford incident is just a public face of a deep morale crisis. I find the refrain: Love your wife as Christ loved the church. Seems for many a very difficult proposition. This moral decay of men has resulted in a coursening of the relationship between the sexes.
The Letterman, Governor Palin incident, exposes that courseness of looking at women and young girls as either object of scorn or as sexual toys to be used and discarded. I don't like it.
Women are God's gift to men and it is time we began to treat them as such. A little off topic but worthy of discussion, I look forward to future posts on the duties of men as fathers and husband. It is fodder for many a good discussion and I would like to see more participation. I will do my part as time allows.