Yearly Archives

2018

Thank You Uncategorized

Thank You

Thank you for your support of Faithful Fathering this past year. Efforts to engage dads in raising a godly generation are producing fruit with the reinvigoration of churches on the fathering front. FF is at work to energize a core group of dads, a lay-leadership…
Rick Wertz
December 27, 2018
Christmas Tip for Dads Uncategorized

Christmas Tip for Dads

Best wishes from my family to yours for a blessed CHRISTmas. Prayers are with you for a great time of family, fun, good food, celebratory gifts and worship of our Lord. Click HERE to view a short video ‘Tip for Dads’ on sharing the Christmas story with family. “Do…
Rick Wertz
December 20, 2018
Health and Holidays Uncategorized

Health and Holidays

Why is losing weight the number one resolution every New Year? Surveys show that the average weight gain over the holidays is about five pounds so it makes sense folks would want to lose that added weight. But several studies show in fact that the…
Rick Wertz
December 13, 2018
CHRIST in Christmas Uncategorized

CHRIST in Christmas

It is a simple thing – He writes season’s greetings as Merry CHRISTmas. In a subtle way folks receive a nudge to keep Christ in Christmas. Advent is a nudge to all of the reason for the season, of Christ’s coming – past, present and…
Rick Wertz
December 6, 2018
Pressure Uncategorized

Pressure

In the 1930’s, William Beebe and Otis Barton teamed up for the design, testing and maiden voyage of the Bathysphere, a unique spherical deep-sea submersible vessel that had to withstand pressure 3000 feet below the surface of the ocean. It was a precursor for submersibles…
Rick Wertz
November 29, 2018
Thankful Indeed Uncategorized

Thankful Indeed

It is so easy to take blessings for granted – Good health, marriage, family, the freedoms we enjoy as Americans and the freedom we have in Jesus the Christ. With the 24/7 news cycle, hyperbole is the norm coming at us across all media platforms. Keeping…
Rick Wertz
November 21, 2018
Fathers and Daughters Uncategorized

Fathers and Daughters

It was like a punch in the gut. His wife shared that their daughter saw him as unapproachable sometimes - She had expressed a feeling of intimidation through his voice and demeanor. The little girl Dad cherished so much was not even comfortable in talking with…
Rick Wertz
November 15, 2018
Fathers and Sons Uncategorized

Fathers and Sons

He had spent 15 years trying to prove himself a man on his own terms, independent of his dad. Dad had not made his high school graduation, his college graduation or his wedding. That was okay because he really did not want him there anyway…
Rick Wertz
November 8, 2018
Commit a Weekend Uncategorized

Commit a Weekend

Commit a weekend to invest in the relationship with your son or daughter. You know how quick time gets by. There are only a few years left with them under your roof and their schedule is at least as busy as yours. Yet they still…
Rick Wertz
November 1, 2018
Raise the Bar Uncategorized

Raise the Bar

His event had been dominated for four decades by the Western Roll, a high-jumping technique that took athletes to new heights - Six foot, eight inches won the gold medal in the 1936 Olympics and Charles Dumas cleared the elusive 7-foot height twenty years later. But…
Rick Wertz
October 25, 2018