Tag: fatherhood

Unborn children, disabled or not, have no ability to plead for their own lives or argue their value. The job of a good father is to protect them. Sadly, Jesse Ridgway has shown America what a terrible father truly looks like.

Sometimes, when you really want fish from this old world, try as you might, toil as you must, in the end all it’s going to give you is a crawdad … and you’d better be ready for it.

The men who choose to walk with Christ and love their families well are unfortunately rare today. But when these men lead our families with love and wisdom, we can say with great confidence that Father does indeed know best.

One can never tell what stories are behind the faces we encounter in our daily lives.

Today’s men don’t have to reject children and family just because they had a bad experience growing up.

In the proverbial garage scene, the father is doing more than just working on the car. He is working on a car that was made by engineers who actually wanted it to work for him and his family.

The study lists the stereotypical masculine characteristics – “competitive, daring, adventurous, dominant, aggressive, courageous and standing up to pressure” – as positive traits, and fathers who demonstrated these were “rated as showing good parenting behavior.”

If the father is the natural intermediary between the child and the world as a result of the biological differences between the mother and the father, then that is not a role to toss aside lightly.

There’s something magical about Saturdays in the fall when you’re in Tuscaloosa, Ala. For me, however, this experience is not just about the game.