St. George Men Fellowship with a spiritual theme.
The meeting was a success.
The spiritual theme was The Patriarch Abram / Abraham, his call, his faith, how God Himself was “his shield and his exceedingly great reward”.
The change of name was directly related to the covenant of circumcision on the eighth day, and to the call to “Walk Blameless”.
Walking blameless is the true circumcision in the perfect observance of the law, the cutting away and removing the sinful passions of everything alien to God through the spiritual circumcision of heart, as one would say using Old Testament terminology. The eighth day is the Day of the Lord, the day of the resurrection from death and sin.
Through the circumcision of the heart Abraham became the friend of God, who said, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am doing?”
Abraham pleaded: “Would You also destroy the righteous with the wicked? “Suppose there were fifty righteous within the city; would You also destroy the place and not spare it for the fifty righteous that were in it? “Far be it from You to do such a thing as this, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be as the wicked; far be it from You! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?”
His argument was based on his true knowledge of God.
Abraham saw the day of the Lord, when he received his own son Isaac back from the dead; where all that scene was as Abraham acted as a type of the Father and as a figure and likeness of Him, while Isaac carrying the wood acted as a type of the Son carrying the cross, Abraham was a type of the Father offering His Son and receiving Him back on the Eight Day through the Glorious resurrection.
So Abraham believed in a resurrection that did not yet happen, he believed that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead, so he received his son back from death in a figurative sense.
God spared the son of Abraham but He did not spare His Own Son and He let Him die for the life of the world.
How to be a Great Dad?
At our Men’s Group Meeting on Thursday 5/29/25 the 13 men there we came up with a list of suggestions on how to be a great dad:
- 1) If possible, try to have a stay at home wife.
2) Pray WITH them and FOR them. Pray with your wife as well.
3) Set an example. They are ALWAYS watching. They mimic everything you do.
4) Do not fight or argue in front of them.
5) Do not share EVERYTHING (the bad stuff) you did when you were younger.
6) Your family comes first! Do not let the in-laws get in the way.
7) Do not spank.
8) Do not spank once they turn 12.
9) Make your house the cool hangout place. That way the friends always come to your house and you can keep a better eye out.
10) Teach them about benevolence.
11) Make them read more. Make them read the Bible.
12) Have more patience and spend more time with them.
13) The small things matter. Even just going on a field trip they will remember forever.
14) Go to all sporting events. Do not be too competitive as well.
15) Make sure both parents are consistent. Kids will play all angles.
16) Be careful for any precedent you might be setting. For example if you let a child sleepover a friends house, they will ask again or a sibling will.
17) Be an example. They watch everything. If you roll stop signs so will they.
18) Family is #1. Have them respect elders. Give children more attention.
19) The mother carries the family.
20) Exercise the fear of God.
21) Do not let work come before your family. Work is just a means to an end.
22) Be understanding of kids and what they are going through.
23) Always make sure you and your child are giving each other eye contact.
24) Drop work and spend time with them.
25) Trust and respect with wife. Also be at church every Sunday.
26) Be friends with them and understand them.
27) Every Sunday is family dinner.
28) Do not lie to your kids. The world lies to them enough. They need to trust you.
29) Show them that they are the most important thing. Listen to them. Get off social media.
30) Do not be afraid to be non-traditional.
31) Patience is very important.
32) It is ok to let kids fail. Let them experience the bad things like funerals.
33) Parents raise kids, NOT schools.
34) An obedient kid is an easily manipulated kid.
