“I am going to send you the prophet Elijah before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes. And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers. Otherwise, I will come and strike the land with a curse.”
Malachi 4:6 CSB
A voice of one calling:
Prepare the way of the Lord in the wilderness; make a straight highway for our God in the desert. Every valley will be lifted up, and every mountain and hill will be leveled; the uneven ground will become smooth and the rough places, a plain.
And the glory of the Lord will appear, and all humanity together will see it, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.
Isaiah 40: 3-6 CSB
“Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.” — Genesis 2:24 (ESV) Picture this: It’s 10:30 p.m. The kids are finally down. You and your wife have about twelve minutes together before someone wakes up needing water, comfort, or your presence.…
A men’s group reflection on family of origin, aligned parenting, and the power of repair Previous Week In Practice The men came back this week with some real stories of putting last week’s teaching on marital unity and family of origin into practice. One father shared how he immediately put the “two yeses or one…
Most fathers don’t set out to parent in opposition to their wives. But life has a way of pulling a couple into parallel lanes—busy schedules, different stress thresholds, different family histories, different instincts. Then a child (especially a sharp one) notices the gap: “Mom said yes.” “Dad said no.” “But you always…” And suddenly you’re…
Before we ever talked envelopes, chores, Roth IRAs, or compounding interest, one dad opened our time with a line that landed like a weight in the room: “The Lord preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow…” (Psalm 146:9, KJV) He pointed out something easy to miss: Scripture presents “fatherless” and “widow” as conditions…
A Trinity Dads reflection on Galatians 3 and the subtle drift into “God-points” parenting Most fathers don’t wake up intending to drift. We start with good desires—lead our kids well, love our wives well, walk with God sincerely. But somewhere between carpool chaos, bedtime meltdowns, headlines, and our own insecurities, we can quietly slide from…
