Helping husbands

I appreciate you stopping by to read these pond-erances. Your time is limited, and how you invest the 86,400 seconds God gives you every day matters. 

I hope and pray this is a place that helps you hone your mind and your spirit by examining and understanding the world around us through the lens of God's word. Without a reference point, my thoughts have no more weight than your thoughts. Without an external standard to which we can appeal, discussions will deteriorate into screaming or swinging.

In an era where the assault against the family grows steadily more furious, families falter more and more because husbands and fathers do not hold the line. They abdicate their God given charge to lead and to love like men. In so doing, the American family continues to crumble.

In the dark days of Paul's last letter to Timothy, he encourages him to keep on keeping on as the young pastor of the Ephesian church.  Preach the word.  Reprove, rebuke, exhort.  He warns,

"For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths."

In keeping with Paul's exhortation to Timothy to be about his business, I have begun a site to spur on husbands in the enormous responsibility to "love their wives as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her." Once a week or so, I will post a prodding from the word of God to encourage us in the rich and wondrous adventure God has given us as husbands.

The site for husbands is called, for lack of originality, "Husbands, Love Your Wives," and can be found at http://www.husbandsloveyourwives.blogspot.com/.

If you find refreshment and challenge there, let me encourage you to pass it on to other men. Challenge other men to love their wives as Christ loved the church, not because you have it completely doped out, but because it is the right thing to do.

"Exhort one another every day, as long as it is called "today," that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin." 

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(verses cited:  2 Timothy 4:3-4, Ephesians 5:25, Hebrews 4:13)