It’s up to us, dads!

From Voddie Baucham’s What He Must Be, pp. 181-182
“Ultimately man-making is up to dad. It is your responsibility and no one else’s.  You alone can prepare your son to be a man and to take his place as the leader of the family tribe.” As Albert Mohler has aptly noted, “No one else can fulfill [...]

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Grooming sons for leadership

From Steve Farrar’s King Me:
“Whether you realize it or not, there’s nothing more in life that [your son] wants than for you to “king him”…The best leaders think for enough ahead to groom a replacement. That’s what fathering is all about. It’s mentoring and equipping your son to become a man who will assume the [...]

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Parental laxity

“We may learn [from Eli] how cruel parental laxity is, and how fatal mischief may be done, by neglect of the plain duty of restraining children. . . .He who tolerates evil which it is his province to suppress, is an accomplice, and the blood of the doer is red on his hands.”  –Alexander MacLaren

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Asking for your daughter’s hand in marriage?

Would you be happy with this scenario:
Your college-age daughter in her early 20’s meets a young, Christian man who “sweeps” her off her feet and they establish a relationship.  Over break, she brings him home so you can meet him for a couple of days and give your approval of him, even though she has [...]

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Protecting our daughters for marriage

“We must protect our daughters from male “predators” so they will marry as virgins, thus bringing honor to our name and purity to their husbands; arrange for our daughters’ marriages by finding suitable husbands and making proper arrangements; ensure a measure of security for out daughters by providing for them financially; protect our daughters from [...]

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The ministry of marriage

From What He Must Be if he wants to marry my daughter by Voddie Baucham
Marriage is thus a great and honorable estate through which we have an incredible opportunity to grow in grace and godliness. Marriage is a ministry. It is an institution ordained by God through which he intends to gain glory. It is [...]

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Requirements for my daughter’s husband

Just concluded reading What He Must Be. . . if he wants to marry my daughter by Voddie Baucham which was a great read.  More could be added no doubt, but his requirements for a potential suitor for his daughter is a great discussion launcher and biblically rooted.  I will just give you the basic [...]

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Young men, learn to stand firm and hold fast!

Douglas Bond has this call to arms for young men in Fathers and Sons, Hold Fast in a Broken World:
Self-controlled young men have sanctified affections. They love what they should love; they walk by faith informed by truth; they live for an audience of one–God; they value Christ and his salvation more than all the [...]

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Voddie Baucham: Agree/Disagree, but you should at least hear it

From the Crossway blog:

Dr. Gary Chapman says, “I’m not sure that American Christians are going to buy what he (Voddie) is saying, but I think we need to hear it.” Dads, daughters, and sons can listen in to a discussion with Gary Chapman and Voddie Baucham on What He Must Be…if He Wants to Marry [...]

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You might be a bad dad. . .

Here are five very practical areas to be on guard against–according to Owen.

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