FivestarMan

Dear Dave, What do you think about online bill payments or automatic monthly deductions to pay for everyday bills?

Leadership is an amazing position of responsibility. As a man, you are created with purpose to be a leader. You are responsible to lead your family and often to be a leader at work or in the community. Solomon, the wisest man who ever lived gives some very challenging insight into four qualities of a leader. His advise is priceless.

Everyone wants to have a great family! Unfortunately, for many, family relationships produce a lot of strain – and “great” would not be a word used to characterize them. Still, most parents are doing a good job of building their families – but don’t realize it.

Human nature being what it is, we tend to rest on our laurels. When the risk is removed, our drive is often removed as well. When it comes to tenure, what started out as well meaning, has gone horribly wrong – to the point that I believe the entire tenure system needs to be yanked.

You are your most important critic. There is no opinion so vitally important to your well being as the opinion you have of yourself. I believe this self-talk, this psycholinguistics or language of the mind can be controlled to work for us, especially in the building of self-confidence and creativity.

Right time to expand the family?
Dear Dave,
My wife and I are trying to pay down our debt. We’ve got a long way to go, and it’s pretty scary sometimes. We’ve also started thinking that we’d like to have another child. We’re not getting any younger, but we know this would prolong the time it would [...]

You want your kids to fulfill every bit of their unique purpose in life. As your children grow, you are able to direct their dreams for a while. Life is good. Then something happens. All of a sudden, seemingly overnight, everything changes.

One of the questions that I get asked a lot from other pastors or leaders is this: “What do I do with this person who has become unreasonable? They complain, gossip, and are never happy. And when I try to reason with them, they are absolutely unwilling to listen or even try to build some type of common ground.”

Fathers, adolescence is a critical time for your children’s development. Studies indicate that when fathers are connected to their kids, they fare substantially better as they make the transition from childhood to adulthood.

Father, you cannot underestimate the power of the words that you speak over your children. As a father, your words can have the power of life and death.