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When will football catch up with Kevin Kelley?

He’s been featured in so many sports articles and newscasts now. He’s known as “The Coach Who Never Punts.” Kevin Kelley is the football coach of my alma mater, Pulaski Academy, in Little Rock, Arkansas. Ironically, they are the Bruins (same colors and mascot name as Blacksburg). I wrote about him back in 2007 on the blog here as well.

What’s even more ironic is that the football world – college and pro – still won’t embrace or believe in Kelley’s amazing strategy.

Last night, his Bruins travelled to DFW and absolutely destroyed Highland Park High School, 40-13. Get this – Highland Park was on an 84-game winning streak. They hadn’t lost… since 1998! Check out these highlights:

When will the football world catch up with Coach Kelley? I’d encourage you to Google “Kevin Kelley Pulaski Academy” and be amazed.

Maybe he should be contacted as the next coach of our Virginia Tech Hokies after Frank Beamer retires? (fingers crossed)

For more:

Why You Should Never Punt – Business Insider

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College bound

Thanks, AJ, for sending me this.

This week, Blacksburg is crazy. The college students at Virginia Tech are moving in/back. We’ve seen several families already eating out together and walking downtown.

We’re about to be one of those families… in Charlotte.

Last night, I sat beside the bed of my 18 year-old and told him, “I’ve been telling you I love you for almost every evening for 18 years. Tonight is your last night before you leave for college. I want you to know… I love you.”

Yep.

Cheesy dad moment.

I know that Carolyn and I are joining the ranks of all those who have gone before us, bidding their babies bye. It doesn’t make it any easier.

So many thoughts rush through my mind, and I’m sure the quiet days ahead (because Sam is loud) will spur more reveries. Thoughts like:

We still have to remind him to empty the trash. How is he going to remember to do the simplest things without our prodding/nagging?
I dated someone seriously my entire freshman year in college. The “next girl” could be his future wife. (I hope some of his gal friends read this and get cold chills.)
Will he look like Sasquatch when we see him next (he’s been letting his hair grow out so he can have a “man bun”)?

And more sober reflections like:

Will what we’ve instilled in him as far as values, beliefs and convictions remain as his?
What will be his first significant failure?
Who will become his spiritual mentors in college?
What church will step up and reach out to him in the way that our church attempts to do for college students in Blacksburg?
Will he get up for his classes the first week?

Sam left earlier this morning. The fam will be leaving for Charlotte and meeting him there this evening – after BHS gets out. We’re going to eat out tonight and enjoy Charlotte and then move him into his dorm room tomorrow morning.

The ride home will be “interesting.” That may be man-speak for “I wonder how many times the driver will have to pull over because something is in his eye.”

Rites of passage. Family transition. Love. Faith. Hope.

We are truly grateful for these 18 years.

In an earlier blog entry, I wrote:

It was March 1997. And Carolyn was huge. With Christy Nockel’s beautiful voice singing praises in the background, God graciously and kindly gave us something we had been told would probably not be possible. We were given a child, a son. Aptly, we named him “Samuel,” because like the biblical mother of Samuel in the Old Testament, we had asked the Lord for him.

He and Adelyn are not “our” kids. They are gifts. We are simply stewards of their beautiful lives. It’s been an honor to be blessed with parenthood. We didn’t always believe we’d get to be parents due to Carolyn’s health issues (link). We haven’t been the best, but we’ve pointed our kids consistently to the One who is the best, a Father who is unfailing and steadfast.

We’re not losing Sam. We’re sending him out. He’s an arrow that we’re launching into the next generation as a weapon of joyful, exuberant, bold, status-quo up-ending faith. We are prayerful. We are confident.

He’s our son.

I hope he remembered to take the trashcan we bought him for his dorm room…

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The glorious power of looking back

In the pace of modern life, we are conditioned to like “new.” Everything is “improved.” Upgraded software or firmware versions, “the latest” models – from cars to computers, and even our clothes (the fall fashion line) compete for our affections and dollars. In such a world, it’s difficult to cope when you… simply. have. a. bad. day.

Whether an argument with your friend or spouse, a bill that was much larger than you expected, sickness, a car wreck or issues much larger, it’s unfortunately easy to find yourself in the doldrums. Perhaps for you, it’s just one thing on top of another for too long, and you are finally at the point of tears and feeling helpless.

You see, we can buy, upgrade, and control our way to improvement with our possessions. We are not in control, however, of doing the same with our lives. It would be awesome if we could get two-day delivery from Amazon on a dose of Happy 2.0, but it’s not reality.

I’m feeling so frustrated and out of control,” you say to the Self Help Store.

“Oh, well, you need this book. It’s guaranteed to replace your current frustration with peace and contentment,” says the overdosed Happy 2.0 Self Help Store Genius Clerk Dude.

Everyone offers solutions to get to a “new and improved you.” Even preachers write books with pathways to success and butterflies.

God offers another way and perspective. What if it’s not about improving ourselves but about surrendering ourselves? What if we’re not really entitled to “happiness?” What if personal peace is not a commodity to be acquired thorough a book, practice or vacation but a posture of a surrendered heart?

In Psalm 77, the writer offers us a way to cope when you have a bad day. Or year. Or decade. The Israelites were struggling. God seemed absent, and life was hard. They knew God was around, but He just didn’t seem involved. In their bleakness, they cried out:

“Will the Lord spurn forever, and never again be favorable?

Has his steadfast love forever ceased?

Are his promises at an end for all time?

Has God forgotten to be gracious?

Has he in anger shut up his compassion?” (Psalm 77:7-9)

Then they made a decision. It was a mental adjustment. Rather than focus on their current situation, they did something counterintuitive. They looked back. Oftentimes, we’ll encourage one another that tomorrow will be better – that we may need to simply sleep on it. Yet, we wake on a new day with the same old problems. Fresh minds; stale issues. It’s true that God gives grace for each new day, but we need the added grace of looking back.

Then I said, “I will appeal to this, to the years of the right hand of the Most High.”

I will remember the deeds of the LORD; yes, I will remember your wonders of old.

I will ponder all your work, and meditate on your mighty deeds. (Psalm 77:10-12)

The Israelites made their minds recall what had happened in the past. Though the present had not changed, they fortified themselves with looking back, with recollection.

“I will remember… I will ponder… I will meditate…”

When you can’t look forward because it is all overwhelming and  is bleak and hard, look back. Recall to your mind all God has done and soak in His gracious, glorious work of the past. It is counterintuitive, but it is the counsel of scripture, over and over.

It is tempting in hard times to say, “Has God forgotten to be gracious?” Yet, to crawl out of negativity takes resolve. A determined resolve to look back.

“I will appeal to this, to the year of the right hand of the Most High.”

The ESV Study Bible notes that “God’s right hand is the expression of His power for the sake of His people.” Appealing to the years of the right hand of God is a determined recollection of how God has acted in your past to comfort, aid, provide, encourage, strengthen or deliver you.

For now, don’t buy that dose of Happy 2.0. Shift into reverse and look back.

 

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Tell It

My mouth will tell of your righteous acts,

of your deeds of salvation all the day,

for their number is past my knowledge.

With the mighty deeds of the Lord GOD I will come;

I will remind them of your righteousness, yours alone.

(Psalm 71:15-16)

These verses prompted this tweet:

“I was saved when I was 7, and many thanks to those who have poured into my life to help me understand how to follow Jesus.” #JustJesus

And it prompted the simple challenge for those of you who are Christians:

When were you saved? Share it and a meaningful verse today. Make sure to use the “hashtag” – #JustJesus

Are you up for it? When was the last time you let your social media world know that you are an unashamed follower of Christ?

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes.. (Romans 1:16)

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Nuff said: A week later with the same-sex ruling

The sky hasn’t fallen.

In most homes, life churns on normally in spite of last Friday’s Supreme Court ruling about same-sex marriage. This is because those who openly identify as homosexual are such a small percentage of our national makeup. Daily life proceeds for the vast majority of Americans.

1.8 percent of men self-identify as gay and 0.4 percent as bisexual, and 1.5 percent of women self-identify as lesbian and 0.9 percent as bisexual. (July 2014 Report from Centers for Disease Control)

Never before has such a small minority created such a social upheaval – unless you consider Christians in the time of the Roman Empire. The most disturbing trend in the past 10 years is how many people, including Christians now support what was once anathema. The push to legalize same-sex marriage is not supported by scientific data. Rather, it’s supported in two ways: by a specious civil rights argument and a touchy-feely “everyone should be able to love the person they want.”

Earlier this week, I posted The “Supreme” Court, indeed: thoughts on the same-sex marriage decision. A week later, rather than delve into this more myself, I wanted to offer a collection of well-written pieces that articulate good thinking, compassionate interaction and hopeful direction in this sensitive cultural and personal reality.

 

An Open Letter To Family And Friends: Why I Can’t Celebrate This Supreme Court Decision

Sandy Young, an elder at Blacksburg Christian Fellowship offers this thoughtful and genuinely gracious piece.

I have tried to understand the arguments for and against same sex marriage. I do feel the weight of the desire to uphold the dignity of others, affirming their freedoms, celebrating love and inclusiveness, giving opportunity to demonstrate covenant faithfulness to all, and granting equal access to the public good for all citizens. And, actually, I like rainbows.

It’s just that, when it comes down to it, I really don’t believe this decision is morally and spiritually right. I don’t think the high court’s decision is ultimately in the best interest of families and children. I don’t believe, in the end, our nation will be the better for this. It may sound presumptuous of me, but I don’t think God is pleased with it.

I’d encourage you to click over and read his entry in its entirety.

 

The Bible says we should only eat locusts

I received an email this week from someone at church who was seeking to understand how to respond to a former teacher’s blog entry entitled: The Law of the Land has caught up with the Law of the Lord. In it, the Adam Phillips says:

With its historic ruling on Marriage Equality Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court finally caught up to the movement of the Holy Spirit.

A casual reading of Phillip’s article might persuade the ignorant to think he has valid points. But let me offer this from another Adam – Adam Ford: the Bible says we should only eats locusts too.

You can make the Bible “say” anything.

You can make the Bible “say” anything – as long as you’re not concerned with what it actually says… but what we want the Bible to say does not have any bearing on what it actually says.

Click on the image above for Adam Ford’s thoughtful response to those who may take scripture out of context or in the above article actually misrepresent the differences between old and new testaments/covenants and skew God’s progressive revelation* for his own purposes.

 

Responses to the Supreme Court

My college friend Blake McKinney and his wife Gayla blog over at Same Team, and their blog entry has three cogent points that I think Christians (and others in disagreement with the SCOTUS ruling) should practice:

I won’t panic.

I won’t celebrate.

I won’t spew venom.

 

On the Legalization of Same-Sex Marriage in England and Wale s

England and Wales saw same-sex marriage legalized over a year ago. Their M-Day (marriage day) was March 29, 2014. Alastair Roberts had much to offer in this entry over a year ago:

In challenging same-sex marriage, our argument has not been that it shouldn’t be permitted, but that it isn’t possible. Calling the union between two persons of the same-sex a ‘marriage’ doesn’t make it one, even if that definition is made legally binding. Marriage names the committed sexual union between a man and a woman. By recognizing and naming its unique character and significance, it protects and celebrates the natural relation that brings the sexes together, within which new life is brought into existence, and by which humanity is constituted as a race.

Perhaps U.S. Christians were too myopic to stand with and pray for their UK counterparts in March of 2014, but Roberts 10 reflections are worth repeating, and I urge you to click over and read his additional thoughts.

Irrespective of its legality, same-sex marriage still isn’t marriage.

We’ve lost a big battle, but the war is far from over.

The legalization of same-sex marriage further pushes open the door on other cultural struggles.

The legalization of same-sex marriage gives momentum to other challenges to marriage.

This has the benefit of clarifying where we stand.

As the primary context for our marriage apologetics shifts, we have the advantage of appealing more frequently and explicitly to some of our deepest, distinctively Christian, convictions about marriage.

Many of us will face a raft of new problems of conscience, tensions in our relationships, and difficulties in our workplaces.

We need to maintain a resolute and vocal witness on this matter.

Grace is essential.

This is a time for repentance.

 

Top 10 Quotes from the Dissenting Justices

These are all worth reading, but I am sobered by Chief Justice John Roberts’ question: just who do we think we are?

The majority’s decision is an act of will, not legal judgment… The Court invalidates the marriage laws of more than half the States and orders the transformation of a social institution that has formed the basis of human society for millennia, for the Kalahari Bushmen and the Han Chinese, the Carthaginians and the Aztecs. Just who do we think we are?

 

Mike Huckabee on the White House rainbow lights

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Republican Presidential candidate and former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee said in this interview: “This was not so much about marriage equality; it was about marriage redefinition.” He said in the same interview – in response to President Obama lighting up the White House in rainbow colors –

When the president lit up the White House the other night with rainbow colors, I guess that’s his prerogative,” the former Arkansas governor said on ABC’s This Week. “If I become president, I just want to remind people, please don’t complain if I were to put a nativity scene out during Christmas and say, ‘If it’s my house, I get to do with it what I wish, despite what other people around the country may feel about it.

 

Homosexuality: Have I Changed My View?

Professor Preston Sprinkle taught an eight-part series on homosexuality at Eternity Bible College in 2014. He brought in a few “LGBT people,  (former and current) who helped us put flesh on the topic.” After teaching the course, he says he hasn’t changed his position (he believes homosexuality is a sin), but he has changed his posture. His article is worth the read.

Jesus didn’t often lead with law; instead, he led with love and he loved people into holiness.

FINALLY…

40 Questions for Christians Now Waving Rainbow Flags

Kevin DeYoung offers a list of 40 questions for Christians who are waving rainbow flags that are sincerely worth answering.

If you consider yourself a Bible-believing Christian, a follower of Jesus whose chief aim is to glorify God and enjoy him forever, there are important questions I hope you will consider before picking up your flag and cheering on the sexual revolution. These questions aren’t meant to be snarky or merely rhetorical. They are sincere, if pointed, questions that I hope will cause my brothers and sisters with the new rainbow themed avatars to slow down and think about the flag you’re flying.

 

Notes/Further Reading:

* Progressive revelation : I affirm the 1978 Chicago Statement on Inerrancy, specifically Article V which states:

We affirm that God’ s revelation in the Holy Scriptures was progressive. We deny that later revelation, which may fulfill earlier revelation, ever corrects or contradicts it. We further deny that any normative revelation has been given since the completion of the New Testament writings.

Why We Believe the Bible, Part 1: The Inspiration, Inerrancy, and Authority of the Bible from desiringgod.org

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Review: Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices

One of my annual goals is to read “an old dead guy.” I’ve found my reading to be deepened and my soul to be profited by reaching back into Christendom’s annals and being served by the saints who have gone before us. In truth, it’s always difficult for me to return to reading “contemporary” Christianity. Recent (in the past 30 years, and especially anything that’s a “best-seller”) tends to be shallow, devoted to self-help and empty of theological foundations.

Thomas Brooks’ work Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices is a refreshing and bracing book that reminded me at first of C.S. Lewis’ Screwtape Letters. In Screwtape, Lewis is able to give the reader a behind-the-scenes look at how Satan thinks and operates toward Christians as he portrays an ongoing dialogue between two demons intent on wrecking the life of a Christian.

Brooks, on the other hand, writes with broadminded insight and a depth of wisdom about the strategies of the devil to “steal, kill and destroy.” His work is direct, clear and well-reasoned. It is a sobering challenge and encouragement to the believer to fight the good fight. Though Brooks (1608-1680) wrote almost 400 hundred years ago in England, the application and wisdom of this book – apart from some of the language, sounds like it could have been written yesterday. (Speaking of language, I chuckled a few times when her referred to Mary Magdalene as “that notorious strumpet.”)

Remedies offers what Brooks identifies as some of Satan’s most well-used and time-worn strategies to distract, divide, discourage and destroy people. I’ve copied a list of the actual strategies below, but the book is about remedies, not just the strategies. So each strategy is followed by a list of well-reasoned, biblically-centered and soul-refreshing ways to respond to evil’s intentions.

One of the most challenging thoughts in the book for me was his identification of ignorance as a strategy of Satan. Too many modern Christians are exactly what the apostle Paul said we shouldn’t be: ignorant of Satan’s designs. (2 Corinthians 2.11) It is ignorance, as Brooks says, that “is a sin that leads to all sins.” (158) He says that Satan wants to get people to:

…esteem ignorance, and to neglect, slight, and despise the means of knowledge. Ignorance is the mother of mistake, the cause of trouble, error and of terror; it is the highway to hell, and it makes a man both a prisoner and a slave to the devil at once. Ignorance unmans a man; it makes a man a beast, yes, makes him more than the beast which perishes. There are none so easily and so frequently captured in Satan’s snares – as ignorant souls. They are easily drawn to dance with the devil all day, and to dream of supping with Christ at night. “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.” (Hosea 4.6) “You are in error because you do not know the scriptures or the power of God.” (Matthew 22.29)

In our biblically illiterate culture (and church), it’s no wonder that so many Christians embrace what “feels” right rather than seek to align their life with truth and God’s will as revealed in the Bible.

Here’s an outline of Satan’s devices. I’ve included links for fuller outlines with the remedies below:

SATAN’S DEVICES TO DRAW THE SOUL TO SIN

1. By presenting the bait and hiding the hook

2. By painting sin with virtue’s colors

3. By the extenuating and lessening of sin

4. By showing to the soul the best men’s sins and by hiding from the soul their virtues, their sorrows, and their repentance

5. By presenting God to the soul as One made up all of mercy

6. By persuading the soul that repentance is easy and that therefore the soul need not scruple about sinning

7. By making the soul bold to venture upon the occasions of sin

8. By representing to the soul the outward mercies enjoyed by men walking in sin, and their freedom from outward miseries

9. By presenting to the soul the crosses, losses, sorrows and sufferings that daily attend those who walk in the ways of holiness

10. By causing saints to compare themselves and their ways with those reputed to be worse than themselves

11. By polluting the souls and judgments of men with dangerous errors that lead to looseness and wickedness

12. By leading men to choose wicked company

SATAN’S DEVICES TO KEEP SOULS FROM HOLY DUTIES, TO HINDER SOULS IN HOLY SERVICES, TO KEEP THEM OFF FROM RELIGIOUS PERFORMANCES

1. By presenting the world in such a garb as to ensnare the soul

2. By presenting to the soul the dangers, losses and sufferings that accompany the performance of certain religious duties

3. By presenting to the soul the difficulty of performing religious duties

4. By causing saints to draw false inferences from the blessed and glorious things that Christ has done

5. By presenting to view the fewness and poverty of those who hold to religious practices:

6. By showing saints that the majority of men make light of God’s ways and walk in the ways of their own hearts

7. By casting in vain thoughts while the soul is seeking God or waiting on God

8. By tempting Christians to rest in their performances

SATAN’S DEVICES TO KEEP SAINTS IN A SAD, DOUBTING, QUESTIONING AND UNCOMFORTABLE CONDITION

1. By causing saints to remember their sins more than their Savior, yes, even to forget and neglect their Savior

2. By causing saints to make false definitions of their graces

3. By causing saints to make false inferences from the cross actings of Providence

4. By suggesting to saints that their graces are not true, but counterfeit

5. By suggesting to saints that the conflict that is in them is found also in hypocrites and profane souls

6. By suggesting to the saint who has lost joy and comfort that his state is not good

7. By reminding the saint of his frequent relapses into sin formerly repented of and prayed against

8. By persuading saints that their state is not good nor their graces sound

SATAN’S DEVICES TO DESTROY AND ENSNARE ALL SORTS AND RANKS OF MEN IN THE WORLD

I. DEVICES AGAINST THE GREAT AND HONORABLE OF THE EARTH

1. By causing them to seek greatness, position, riches and security

2. By causing them to act against the people of the Most High

II. DEVICE AGAINST THE LEARNED AND THE WISE

By moving them to pride themselves on their parts and abilities, and to despise men of greater grace but inferior abilities

III. DEVICE AGAINST THE SAINTS

By dividing them and causing them to ‘bite and devour one another.’

IV. DEVICE AGAINST POOR AND IGNORANT SOULS

By causing them to affect ignorance and to neglect and despise the means of knowledge

FIVE MORE OF SATAN’S DEVICES

1. By suggesting to men the greatness and vileness of their sins

2. By suggesting to sinners their unworthiness

3. By suggesting to sinners their want of certain preparations and qualifications

4. By suggesting to sinners that Christ Is unwilling to save them

5. By causing sinners to give more attention to the secret decrees and counsels of God than to their own duty

The last two chapters also contain “Seven Characters Of False Teachers” and “Six Propositions Concerning Satan And His Devices.” His assessment of false teachers is spot on. One of the descriptions he offers: false teachers “stand most upon those things that are of least importance and concern to the souls of men” – sounds like modern American Christianity. Too many times, we see teachers/authors making a big deal of the obscure in a creative way such that it delights our imagination and distracts us from foundational truths.

Remedies is not just a book. It’s a message. Brooks sounds like he’s planted a bug in the war room of Satan himself and is spying on the enemy for our benefit. I’d strongly encourage you to read this work by an old dead guy. Not only will you be encouraged, but you’ll be better equipped to “resist the devil” and watch him “flee from you.”

Other Resources:

Introducing “Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices” by Thomas Brooks
An exhaustive outline of the book (includes the remedies) at Grace Gems
Free pdf of the book here

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The “Supreme” Court, indeed: thoughts on the same-sex marriage decision

It was a text message from one of our young adults in our church that alerted me to the results of the ruling.

Hey I know this is so random but I’m sitting here watching the news about the Supreme Court decision for same sex marriage and I’m struggling. I have no idea what to think or how to handle it… I’m sad because it’s just another example of the world turning from the Lord, but so many of my peers’ eyes are on my reaction as a Christian. How do I still love but not agree? I don’t know what to say

Happy Father’s Day

Today is Father’s Day, and I wanted to share with my blogging friends the simple reality: I love my dad. 

I know he’ll read this – not because he reads my blog – but because my mom does and will read it to him. More than likely, he’ll be reclined in his Lazyboy, and Mom will say, “Oh Gayle, Jeff wrote the most beautiful blog post for you for Father’s Day.” She’ll read this post, and he’ll tear up. He’s like his dad in that – he tears up when anything involving his kids or grandkids is shared with him. He can’t pray at holiday meals anymore without tearing up. I’m a little concerned I’ve inherited that trait as well. I caught myself tearing up during Big Hero Six this year.

He and mom celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary last year. His commitment to my mom and us as a family has provided us all with stability. I’ve inherited an amazing legacy. Both sets of my grandparents also celebrated 50th wedding anniversaries. (I broke out my tiger shirt for the anniversary pictures last year but was promptly rebuked by both my mom and wife. I did manage to talk them into one picture before being forced to change.) 

My dad taught me how to laugh – often and at everything. That trait was either passed on genetically or learned, and it’s gotten me into and out of trouble my entire life. My dad finds joy in some of the simplest things – a good book, movie, or a passing thunderstorm. I’m grateful that I learned joy from one of the most laughter-laden humans I know.

Another highlight was last April’s trip to Washington D.C. Mom and Dad had come to vist us in Virginia from Arkansas, and as a side trip treat, I took Dad to D.C. – just the two of us. We saw as many sights as we could cram into two days. He’s a history buff, so hearing some of the stories of our nation from his memory and perspective was insightful. His love for ice cream was an added plus on the trip because it gave us an excuse to stop at every vendor we saw.

Another thing my dad has apparently passed down is dish washing. I’m a third generation dish washer. His dad washed dishes after my grandmother would kick up a meal. Dad washed dishes after my mom’s meals. Now I wash dishes and clean the kitchen after meals that Carolyn makes. Unfortunately, I think the family legacy ends with me. Sam still doesn’t realize the silver nozzle on our sink has water in it that can rinse off the dirty dishes he leaves in the sink. (Note to his future wife: we’re sorry.)

For as long as I’ve been alive, my dad has loved me extravagantly. There’s never been a question of his love. He’s loved me through discipline. He’s loved me through gifts. He’s loved me through hugs and tears. He’s loved me through prayer. He’s loved me through unsolicited advice. He’s loved me through rambling stories. He’s loved me through unyielding support. He’s loved me through monthly support checks (yes, my mom and dad still send money). He’s loved me through every single season of my life.

Most importantly, my dad’s love was conducive and instrumental in revealing to me God the Father’s love. It was my earthly dad that sat on the edge of my bed when I was seven and prayed with me while I asked forgiveness from my heavenly Dad and received eternal life. My dad ushered me humbly to the throne room of his Heavenly Father and graciously introduced me to the One who has been his great love all his life.

Happy Father’s Day, Dad. Thank you.

 

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