Category: My Father’s Keeper

I am excited to announce that my latest book “My Father’s Keeper” has been published and is available on Amazon. In our society today, fatherlessness has become an epidemic. In some segments of society more than 70% of children are growing up in fatherless homes. The effects on our society will last for generations…unless there…

I felt it appropriate to provide a little background as to how the relationship between my dad and me came to being.  It all starts with his background which is a little sketchy.  But based on what I’ve been able to piece together from a few records and conversations with him, this is how it…

One of the things I love about Jesus is that He used very common concepts to illustrate and reveal very “deep” principles of the Gospel.  One of the concepts He used in His parables was the concepts of seeds. In Matthew 13 Jesus teaches people about the Kingdom of God through three parables involving seeds:…

The relationship between my father and me has been complicated to say the least.  When I was young, I was actually afraid of my father.  He used come home from work (or a night at the bar) and was very demanding and intimidating.  He used to put my mom and me on the defensive by…

This series of blogs is focused the relationships between men and their fathers…in many cases absent fathers.  My father, who was absent for much of my life in many ways, lived with me for 10 months.  He was officially diagnosed with Alzheimer/Dementia in 2016.  In March 2017 I finally had to move him into an…