I was watching a commercial the other day. One of those car insurance ones. You know the type. Husband and wife standing in the driveway. She is sharp, decisive, already has the app pulled up and the quote locked in. He is standing there looking confused. Maybe scratching his head. Maybe saying something slightly dumb...
There was a season in my life where I felt like I owed everybody a reason. Why I believed what I believed. Why I led the way I led. Why I was not more flexible, more open, more willing to meet people in the middle on things God already settled. I was exhausted before noon...
I want to talk about something that does not get discussed honestly very often. Men are leaving the church. Not all at once. Quietly. One at a time. They stop showing up and eventually nobody notices because the service keeps running and the seats fill with everyone else. The reasons vary. But there is one...
Somewhere along the way somebody convinced women to be suspicious of a man with a backbone. A man who leads got rebranded as controlling. A man with convictions got rebranded as rigid. A man who holds a standard got rebranded as judgmental. And enough women bought it long enough that some of them started choosing...
Physical presence is not the same as fatherhood. A man can sleep under the same roof as his children every night of their lives and still be completely absent. Still be a stranger they share a last name with. Still be someone they tiptoe around instead of run to. I have watched it. A father...