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In “Giving & Receiving,” Bryan Catherman writes, “It is clear that God wants us to communicate with Him. He desires that we pray and ask him to meet our needs. He wants to provide for us. In order that we recognize his goodness, God directs us to ask and become keenly aware of him before he delivers…

In the movie Taken, a sex trafficking ring kidnaps Kim while she is visiting Spain with a friend. Her father was an ex-CIA agent with an expertise in tracking anyone, anywhere. In the end, her father goes through utter hell to find his daughter, and ultimately finds and rescues her from her Saudi Arabian…

Keeping the 5th commandment to honor father and mother becomes difficult, if not impossible, for the thousands of children who know their fathers only as “Donor.” For many of them it creates an identity crisis that has no solution. Alana Stewart is one of those fatherless children. Telling her story…

FATHERS Brett Favre is 40 years old and still playing Quarterback in the National Football League. Favre is playing for the Minnesota Vikings, the fourth team of his storied career. He has won one super bowl and three times he has been voted the Most Valuable Player in the NFL. One of the reasons, perhaps…

LOVE In the book, Godly Love, A Rose Planted in the Desert of Our Hearts, Stephen Post says he always knew human beings longed for God’s love, but it took an encounter with a man named Jim to help him understand the need. Post says he meet Jim in a nursing home in Ohio years ago. Jim was very forgetful,…

Some of my favorite memories of being a son and being a Dad surround the game of baseball. I don’t know what memories Steve and his daughter Emily have developed over the years, but I suspect neither of them will ever forget a day they spent together watching the Phillies play. 32 year-old Steve Monforto…

Father's Day Can I be totally honest with you? I struggle with Father's Day. It's not the holiday per se that bothers me, it's the challenge it presents me as a pastor. I used to think Father's Day was a male version of Mother's Day, but it's not. Traditionally, Mother's Day is a time to recognize the…

PRACTICALITY Jim Sandall, pastor of Agape Baptist Church in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, recently received a joke over the internet that made a spiritual impression in his heart. The joke went like this: A psychologist, and engineer, and a theologian were on a hunting trip in Canada. Seeking shelter, they…

Writer Augusten Burroughs writes in his new book, about growing up with his distant, neglectful father. One part, in particular, was so raw as to make me almost cringe as I read it. Burroughs writes about how, as a 7 year-old child, he realized that whenever he’d try to crawl in his father’s lap, his…