Consistent faith through the challenges of life is hard. Being a father is as hard. But when you have a sick child, it’s even harder. Especially when your child is at a young age and if they don’t speak yet, it’s hard to figure out where they are hurting.

Saying no to sin; something Bugs Bunny won’t help you with. I love the old Bugs Bunny cartoons, especially the ones with Yosemite Sam. There is this one episode where Bugs and Sam are about to get in a fight. Bugs Bunny drew a line in the sand. He bets hot-headed Yosemite Sam to cross it, and guess what? He did! And not just once.

He passed every line that Bugs Bunny drew with his foot until he stepped right off of a cliff. There is a line for us: one between life with God on one side and life without Him on the other. This line is called sin.

It’s the discount season. You may have been prepping for these Holiday sales for months so you can purchase that 75 inch HD 8k OLED UHD LMNOP TV that goes on sale. Perhaps you’ll be waking at 4 am on Black Friday to get that 300% early bird special.

Are you intoxicated with your wife? A couple of weeks ago, this piece of scripture hit me and thumped me. As a husband, there are so many things that I struggle with, and one of those things is letting God’s word run my marriage.

Ever be intoxicated always in her love.
(Proverbs 5:19b.)

Here’s how you can recover from failure and use it to glorify God.

You shall say to them, Thus says the Lord: When men fall, do they not rise again? If one turns away, does he not return? (Jeremiah 8:4)

As Christian men, sometimes we can have mixed feelings about the failures in our lives. One thing that we all have in common is that each of us has had failures. As one of our pastors said, “Character isn’t made on the mountain peaks – it’s made in the valleys.” How we view failures is critical. Do we become better or bitter? What can we learn from them? How can we improve? How can we help others, as a result? “The righteous falls seven times and rises again.” (Proverbs 24:16)

What makes an UNCOMMEN Father?

Deuteronomy 4:9 — “Only take care, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things that your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. Make them known to your children and your children’s children.”

I had to ask myself what that meant? How is it defined? How is it played out in real life?