As Father’s Day approaches, I just happened across a few verses and thoughts that pertain to this great day. I think we ought to honor our father’s (Honor thy mother and thy father…) but many may not have great father’s–or families for that matter. And, I think father’s ought to be honored to the degree to which their lives have been honorable. On these holidays, people often resort to this surface level honoring that merely glazes over hurts and hard family situations. I don’t think we ought to make Father’s day into a day that we drudge up all the bad and evil that exists in our relationships with our Fathers. Rather, I do think father’s day ought to be a day of gratitude and praise that, while we acknowledge the difficulties of our relationships, we set aside or look past those things and celebrate what we can, to the degree to which is proper. And, if there is very little to praise or be thankful for, we may mourn but we are not left without our Father in Heaven, whom we are told cares deeply for his children (Matt. 7:7-11, Luke 11:11-14, James 1:16-17, John 3:14-17).
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Jun 11
I have rarely found an artist that captures the Christian so well…
Cause I’m a dead man now
With a ghost who lives
Within the confines of
These carbon ribs
And one day when I’m free
I will sit
The cripple at your table
The cripple by your side
A thousand miles of pain I’m sure
Led you to the threshold
Of my hearts screen door
To tell me what it is I’m dying for
Gravity comes
Like a cold cold Rain
To lead me to the rope again
But someone is standing in my place
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Jun 11
The Great Comforter…for what?
This is a sound bite and should be kept in balance with all of scripture but challenging nonetheless. We should not forget however, Paul’s admonishment that we should pray that we might enjoy peaceful lives and that this is pleasing to God. All things must be held in tension. (1 Tim 2:1-4)