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DAD-ISMS
Here are a few dad-isms from a recent website I visited -
"Get in and get out."
This applied to an open back door or refrigerator. Just because you don’t pay the gas and electric bills, that doesn’t mean you should waste energy, he’d tell us as we alternately let the cold air into the
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Dads:
I want you to listen to a poem from a teenager in Chicago who expresses how important you are as fathers and fatherly figures:
Maggie’s Poem
Do you know, do you understand,
that you represent Jesus to me?
Do you know, do you understand,
that when you treat me with gentleness
It raises the
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Dear Dad,
Heroes are men who first of all are heroes for God and then heroes to their families. To be a hero for God, you need to yield your life 100% to Him.
What's in this name "hero"? Josh McDowell shares,
"A few years ago, a radio jockey polled almost two hundred teenagers in a shopping
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Contributed by Sean Harder on Jul 8, 2009
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THE DEFINITION OF A BBQ
It’s the only type of cooking a "real man" will do. When a man volunteers to do the ’BBQ’ the following chain of events is put into motion:
1) The woman goes to the store.
2) The woman fixes the salad, vegetables, and dessert.
3) The woman prepares the meat for cooking,
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Contributed by Rickey Bennett on Aug 15, 2009
The Teacher by Leslie Pinckney Hill
Lord, who am I to teach the way
To little children day by day,
So prone myself to go astray?
I Teach them KNOWLEDGE, but I know
How faint they flicker and how low
The candles of my knowledge glow.
I teach them POWER to will and do,
But only now to learn
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Contributed by Bradley Kellum on Aug 31, 2009
DADDY RESTRAINED
I’ll never forget an experience I had with my son Ethan.
When Ethan was about 2 years old, he had been playing and had fallen and cut open his chin. It was bad enough for Nicole and I to take him to A.I. DuPont Hospital for children. After the doctors examined his cut they told
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Contributed by Paul Collins on Sep 7, 2009
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DAD'S ALARM
A father wrote about what happened when his son David was about five years old. They attended a church where it was common for the preacher to invite children to the front for a special sermon. On one particular morning, he brought up a smoke detector and asked the children if anyone
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Contributed by Chris Surber on Nov 14, 2009
On my recent pilgrimage to Israel one of the many profound experiences occurred on the airplane prior to even leaving JFK International in New York.
After I was seated on the huge double Decker airplane which took us directly to Tel Aviv, I noticed a large Orthodox Jewish family making their way
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Contributed by Brian La Croix on Dec 15, 2009
I was in high school, either a junior or senior, I can’t remember which.
My dad and step-mom were out of town, leaving my older step-brothers and me to have the house to ourselves.
As was our custom, we partied. Lots of people, lots of alcohol, and even some pot.
While I was drunk one of those
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Contributed by Juan Quintero on Feb 12, 2010
Honrar es:
1. Respetar a alguien.
2. Enaltecer o premiar su mérito.
3. Dar honor o celebridad.
4. Como fórmula de cortesía para enaltecer la asistencia, adhesión, etc., de otra u otras personas.
5. Dicho de una persona: Tener a honra ser o hacer algo.
Honor is:
1. Respecting everyone.
2.
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Contributed by Jim Kane on Feb 27, 2010
"HEY BOB!" BUILDING MARGIN IN YOUR LIFE
In his book, The Short List: In A Life Full of Choices, There Are Only Four That Matter, Butterworth tells of the time when he came home to his family after another weekend speaking engagement when his then youngest son decided to start talking at the Monday
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Contributed by Patrick Nix on Jul 9, 2010
DADS MAKE A DIFFERENCE
Dad, you might not feel like your presence is very important. You might not feel like you are making a difference, but you are.
Fatherless kids are more likely to:
- Be convicted of a violent crime (2,000% more likely than those with fathers)
- Be involved in a teen /
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