Showing posts with label Ephesians 6:4. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ephesians 6:4. Show all posts

Sunday, June 18, 2017

Fathers - we need more of them.


Fathers - we need more of them.

Steve Martin
Founder/President
Love For His People, Inc.


"Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord."  (Ephesians 6:4, NASU)

"Fathers, don't exasperate your children by coming down hard on them. Take them by the hand and lead them in the way of the Master." (Ephesians 6:4, THE MESSAGE)

"I'm not writing all this as a neighborhood scold just to make you feel rotten. I'm writing as a father to you, my children. I love you and want you to grow up well, not spoiled. There are a lot of people around who can't wait to tell you what you've done wrong, but there aren't many fathers willing to take the time and effort to help you grow up. It was as Jesus helped me proclaim God's Message to you that I became your father. I'm not, you know, asking you to do anything I'm not already doing myself. (I Corinthians 4:14-16, THE MESSAGE)