6 results for tag: Fathers Day

Father’s Day Encouragement: Abide In Jesus

A HIGH CALLING Father’s Day. I love this day, and most of the time I use it as an excuse to take our family camping. “You know, it's Father’s Day. Maybe we should do what any good dad would do with his family, and head into the woods for a few days.” It works most years.  But, Father’s Day is also a day where I reflect on what it means to be a good father in all seasons. As fathers, we share a title with God—our heavenly Father. While this is a great honor, it is also sobering. To be a father, as God is our heavenly Father, is a high calling. We need to take time to reflect on what it means to be a father—what it means to ...

My First Father’s Day: A Memoir

My first Father’s Day was not like the one we all imagine in our heads. Of sleeping in late and waking up to fresh brewed coffee and breakfast in bed. A neatly wrapped gift of a new tie. A chubby hand print picture with “I love Daddy” in mommy’s handwriting rainbowed over it. All this followed by a lazy day at home with wife and kid meeting my every need, serving my every desire, and making me a steak dinner to round out a perfect day all about me. #1 Dad. in. the. world. Yeah, that did not happen. Father’s Day 2011 was eight months after Gwendolyn went home. The sting of death lingered but was dulled by the demands of directing a ...

Fathers of God’s Comfort

"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God." 2 Corinthians 1:3-4 Fathers, God’s mercy towards us is not merely given for our own comfort in affliction, but so that we might also display His mercy as we comfort others. I am not a very compassionate person by nature. My first reaction is typically truth before grace. While I am thankful for the ways God has allowed me to speak truth for His glory, I am called to give a ...

Into the Arms of a Strong Heavenly Father

This will be my fourth Father's Day as a father. My first Father's Day was exactly 2 months after our daughter was born into glory. I had always heard that becoming a father brings a whole new perspective to our Christian walk since it helps us to more fully appreciate what it means that God identifies Himself as our Father. However, as a father to a child in heaven, my perspective on what it means that God is our Heavenly Father has taken on an even deeper meaning. In the New Testament God is often referred to as our Father. One of those places is in Romans 8 where Paul has just finished explaining that there is now no condemnation for those who ...

Hope Dads: Shepherd Your Family

“Blessed is everyone who fears the Lord, who walks in his ways! You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands; Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your table. Behold, thus shall the man be blessed who fears the Lord.” -Psalm 128:1-4 Dads, this Psalm was directed at you and me.  Every time I read this passage, I want to say YES PLEASE!  This is the family life that we all want, a family that is flourishing! This is what we want for our family when we celebrate Fathers Day, when we go out in public, when we are on vacation… and this is what we want for our family ...

Father’s Day

by Holly Steele "It’s a boy!" were the words we heard for the second time on a beautiful March afternoon. I could see the huge smile on Ryan’s face without even looking at him. I am sure he was already day dreaming about all the sports they were going to be playing in the backyard and probably sizing up which of our boys would play pitcher or catcher. Those hope and dreams that my husband, Ryan had for our littlest never came true. However, words can’t explain how proud he was of Landry that he fought and held on as long as he did. He wanted to show him off to the world…. He just ran out of time. When Ryan and I said I do on July 2, 2005 ...