Dying to Live: No Compromise

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When Abbe and Bryn were struggling with addiction, I was spending $40,000 per month on various rehab centers doing whatever I could to get them help and keep them safe. For a period of time, it worked. However, whenever they came back to the real world, they would fall back into their destructive lifestyles because […]

A Father’s Love Letter

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For many years, I had no idea of how God really felt about me and didn’t know that a relationship with Jesus was even possible. Unhealed wounds in my heart made it difficult for me to receive the glorious truth of what it means to be a child of God. This massively affected my ability […]

A Father’s Blessing – Part 2

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If you look at the families and parents and children who make up today’s culture, it’s not hard to see how the enemy has attempted to destroy what God intended for good. Single parents, estranged children, rampant divorce, abandonment, and dysfunctional people filled with bitterness and resentment only begin to describe the effects of fatherlessness […]

A Father’s Blessing – Part 1

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The Bible is a testament to the goodness of God and declares over and over how vast His love is for His children. Jesus won the victory over sin and death, and He reigns supreme. As sons and daughters, we get to appropriate His victory into every area of our lives and follow the ancient […]

God as Father

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Turning Your Heart to God For fathers, the key to stepping into our role as men and leaders of our family is to see and experience God as Father. Remember, Jesus came to make a way to the Father and to reveal the heart of His Father to the world. We love because He first […]

Setting the Stage: My Life as a Father

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He will turn the hearts of the parents to their children, and the hearts of the children to their parents; or else I will come and strike the land with total destruction. Malachi 4:6 NIV Living far from the promises of Malachi 4:6 – Setting the Stage Just a few short years ago, my heart was not […]