Form Follows Function & Sex

Form Follows Function & Sex

LOUIS SULLIVAN (1856-1924), THE FATHER OF MODERN ARCHITECTURE, famously articulated this crucial design principle “form follows function.” In other words, the design of a building or object should enable or expedite its intended function or purpose.  Sullivan...
Fathers Motivate Perseverance

Fathers Motivate Perseverance

FATHERS UNIQUELY IMPART THE ABILITY TO PERSEVERE through obstacles to their children. Studies have shown fatherless children have a reduced capacity to push through obstacles, problems, and barriers that stand between them and their goals. That is because persistence...
Are You Grateful For Your Children?

Are You Grateful For Your Children?

THE PATRIARCHS ARE BIBLICAL HEROES, yet their attempts at parenting met with scattered results. Lets walk through Genesis and reflect on their experience. Adam had three sons. Abel was chosen, but Cain, filled with jealousy, committed fratricide. He killed his...
Form Follows Function & Sex

An Argument for Dad As the Lead Parent

MY WIFE AND I often speak at parenting conferences. Sometimes I make the off-hand comment that, in the Bible, the father is the lead parent, and his wife is his helper. I am often surprised at the reaction. “Where did you get such a crazy idea?” Or, “I don’t like it...

Cultural Suicide

THE SEXUAL REVOLUTION is a thinly disguised cultural death wish. It is a form of social suicide. There are good reasons for this statement. First, it is a well established fact that children growing up without their biological fathers suffer a variety of...