Archive for June, 2025

Dad, Don’t Be a Dork

Happy Father’s Day. It comes at a time the family is under attack, rather than siege. Young women are urged to remain single and those who are married are encouraged not to have children.

A new crisis threatens America that is even more ominous than Communism was a decade ago. It is a fatherless home. Today 38% of the children of America live in homes where the biological father isn’t present. This contrasts to only 17% in 1960. There is another type of fatherless home. It is the type where the biological father is living with the biological mother but he has forfeited the responsibilities of the role of a father.

Parents often speak of wanting to instill principles. In order to do so there must be a gift of PRESENCE before there can be a gift of PRINCIPLES.

Lessons are more easily caught than taught.

Presence says, “I need you, we belong together.”

Presence says, “I care, we need to be together.”

Our Heavenly Father has time for us. The Scripture says, “…the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers…” (I Peter 3:12).

Nearly 80% of the persons involved in the “U.S. News” survey think both the mother and father should spend more time with their children. Presence is essential for the communication of principles.

As dad once again came in from the golf course to pick up his bowling ball for an evening out the child asked, “Mom, who is that man that comes in here and kisses you and spanks me?”

Life is often depicted as a candle. The parental role is more like a torch which is held for a brief moment to be handed on to the next generation. Make it burn as brightly as possible.

Dr. Ernest Gordon, Dean of Chapel at Princeton University ended one of his books: “In the wild seas of violence that characterize our time we are in deepest need of islands of sanity, or harbors of humanity.” Be the kind of person you want your child to be. Model values. Based on your child’s observation of you, what would your child say is important to you? In what do you invest your time and energy?

Demonstrate to your child that Jesus, the church, and your family have top priorities with you. If you do, your child will help every day be what I wish for all dads who read this a . . . . HAPPY FATHER’S DAY.