Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Be the Man of the House God Calls You to Be


“Where is the wise person? Where is the teacher of the law? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? 1 Corinthians 1:20

It’s still hard to believe that there was a time in my life that I didn’t care one bit about who God was. How there was a time in my life that no matter what happened I actually thought I was in total control and nothing but ME mattered. I remember my wife telling me early in our marriage that we really should be ready to raise our kids with the understanding that God is first and foremost and that there is absolutely, positively nothing that can ever change His love for us or our kids..of course back then I fought it and said NO WAY!! “We are going to raise our kids the way I say we’re gonna raise our kids! After all I’m “the Man of the House”!!. I’m in charge!!”

Funny how God works. I mean how could I have ever thought that the Creator of all things, the Savior of each and every one of us, the one who loves us so much that He would sacrifice himself so we can be in a relationship with Him now and forever.. how could I ever think I could compete with that?

Well you know what? I praise him everyday for “hittin’me” over the head and helping me to understand that I could never compete with that..I praise Him everyday for making it so clear that He was in charge and that we were going to live His way and raise our kids in the only way that His Word implores us too.

See I thought I had it all figured out until I finally realized and decided to put God first in my life by choosing Him..and more than anything else I pray and have faith that my kids will follow His lead through me and put Him first in all they do.

If you haven’t thought about that, I encourage you to pray about it right now..to pray that you become the “Man of the House” that He has called you to be..Put God first in your family, step up and let everyone know who is in charge.

Sunday, June 24, 2012

Why blog on these topics?

This blog is for men by men that are also dads and in a nutshell offers perspectives on parenting, marriage and living godly lives.  There have been a lot of books written on these subjects.  Google search parenting books and the results say about 128,000,000!  Marriage books about 240,000,000! Living godly lives about 10,400,000!  That's a lot of books and more and more continue to be written so why a blog?  Thing is, most of the books I've read on these topics are good in theory but in practice they don't help much.  Why?  I believe it's because the answers simply are not found in these books.  I'm not discrediting all books on these subjects, some are great and give some great and godly advice.  However, the best and first place we should be looking for answers and advice on how to parent, how to have a great marriage and how to live a godly life is the Bible.  God's very own words to us about everything.  I pray this blog helps you gain a better Biblical perspective on how to parent, be a great husband and how to live a more godly life.  How we plan to do that is by looking at Bible passages and talking about how we men put it into practice in our own lives.  


Tomorrow's blog is a general overview of parenting and how the Bible tells us way more about it than most of us realize!