As Father’s day approaches, I feel it necessary to cover two sides of this holiday. The first is for us (men) to understand how important it is to be good fathers. God Himself is a Father. He gave us the example of how to be a father. He decided that in order to adopt all the children in the world, past, present and future, He had to sacrifice the only child He had. That’s being a father; when you lay your life down for others. I was extremely fortunate to have a father that was a walking...

One subject I have learned a lot about is compassion. It is so easy for those of us that “have it together” to look at others and say things like “I’m praying for you” when we really mean “I’m glad I’m not you”. One definition of compassion is the feeling of distress for someone else. This implies that you feel it as if it happened to you. You can’t possibly have compassion for someone that you are looking down upon. This word can be closely linked to words like comrade or...