Don't Buy Him Another Tie This Father's Day!

FATHER’S DAY 2011 – DON’T BUY HIM ANOTHER TIE!!!

“CHRISTIAN BOOKS CHANGE LIVES”

This Father’s Day, get something for your father that he will use the rest of his life.  Buy him a book, or a DVD, something that will resonate within his spirit as he reads or views and listens.  The printed word is powerful and the slogan, “Christian books change lives” is never more true than it is today.

Which book?  Assuming you don’t have a large budget to work with, which book would you choose to show your Dad how much you appreciate his loving support and counsel while you were growing up?  Which book says, “I love you, Dad!” in ways that he will understand? Www.InHisHonor.org has a wide range of books from which to choose, each appropriate to a situation which only you are the one to judge.

Let’s start with Fireproof.  Ironically, my first choice is not a book, rather it is a DVD.  This DVD features a hero that most men can easily identify with and imagine being.  The hero is a firefighter and has been awarded several times for outstanding bravery.  His marriage is falling apart, because what works on the fire line doesn’t always help at home.  Like most men, this firefighter is good at what he does, but not so good with the type of communication that holds a marriage together.  His wife is tired of the constant struggle and bickering and thinking about giving up.  Ouch, this sounds altogether too familiar to me!  I’m treading on ground that I don’t like to talk about, especially in public.  Want to see how the situation is resolved?  Buy the DVD, available from www.InHisHonor.org  and give it to Dad for Father’s Day.  He will thank you forever!

Success Secrets of the World’s Most Cynical Man is next on our featured list.  Wonder why I seem to be choosing books that nobody has ever heard about?  Like the old prospector once said, “there’s gold in them thar hills!”  There is fine gold in this book, which is about the wisest man who ever lived.  He actually ruminated and expressed his thoughts in one of the books of the Bible.  He lived a long time ago and did you notice I haven’t mentioned his name yet?  I won’t, either!  To put an end to this suspense, you will need to run on over to www.InHisHonor.org and make your purchase.  Dad has enough ties already; buy him this book instead. 

The next one of my recommends is a little bit touchy.  Be careful who you give it to and make sure you are not sending the wrong message.  It’s meant for that special man at a special time in his life, when he is having trouble putting either his past or someone else’s past behind him.  It is entitled, Total Forgiveness.  Total forgiveness is as spectacular as any miracle.  It is a radical message to a divided world.  Once again, this choice is a special choice for a special father who has been hurt and doesn’t seem to be able to work beyond that hurt.  Careful with this choice, so you won’t be the one he has to forgive. J

Radical by David Platt is a book that will make your Dad think.  David Platt was a well known minister who one day realized that while he was building a megachurch, his example was a man who started with twelve followers during the most effective years of his ministry.  He asked himself, “what is wrong with this picture?”  I personally found this to be a most startling admission.  Most well known ministers in my experience never admit to these types of thoughts, at least not in public.  Radical is available on www.InHisHonor.org.  Shocked you, didn’t I?

The last book I would like to review is not yet available on www.InHisHonor.org, but will be very shortly, probably at least a week before Father’s Day.  It is well worth waiting for, even if you were to order it and have it arrive late.  The title is The Complete Person and it is written by one of the best Bible teachers I have every listened to.  This pastor, early in my experience with him always encouraged his listeners to “search the Scriptures and see for yourself, if it is so.”  We were never to take what he expounded at it’s face value without checking for ourselves.  The Complete Person addresses the shortcomings that keep ordinary Christians from developing maturity in Christ.  As Christians, we are to be consistently maturing and growing in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christi.  This book will be available before Father’s Day, so keep looking.

Any of the above books would be a worthy replacement for a new tie for Dad, but I don’t want to leave out one of the most important books that we sell on www.InHisHonor.org.  The Bible is available in many formats, more than a few translations and paraphrases.  It is available in its entirety or in portions.  It is available in devotional form and visual format.  The Bible is eternal.  Reading it will do your father more good than any medicine, any book or anything known to mankind.  It will make him the type of Dad that he will be proud of, the type of Dad that will make his mark on this world.  The Bible tranforms lives, it acts like a mirror, showing us the true condition of our hearts; it exposes the inner motives of a person.  The Bible is the only trustworthy document showing how to access God.  The B-I-B-L-E: yes, that’s the Book for me!