Daddy Tried

Just received this pic along with an e-mail of thanks for writing Daddy Tried. Ain't she beautiful? I'd tell you her name but I want to protect her own and her parents' privacy. Congratulations to the proud father and joyful mother!

Behold, children are a gift of the LORD, The fruit of the womb is a reward. (Psalms 127:3)

The one who is taught the word is to share all good things with the one who teaches him. (Galatians 6:6)

Hey Baylyblog readers! Would you please help us publicize Daddy Tried? Also the posts you read here on Baylyblog?

The Apostle Paul says those who are taught should share all good things with those who teach them. The good thing I'd like to ask of you is your help reaching the church with the difficult things we write on Baylyblog. Also the books we publish.

The most recent one is a book teaching Christian fatherhood titled Daddy Tried. John Frame isn’t a flatterer and he says...

Pastoral care is not a high priority in the church today and it's hard to give it from a distance. The Apostle Paul did it through his epistles and most of the New Testament is simply the permanent record of pastoral care by pastors who lived at a distance from those they loved and led, done by means of letter writing in a day when texts, FB, and Skype didn't exist.

Daddy Tried is my own letter providing pastoral care to fathers.1 New fathers who year by year are welcoming their newborn sons and daughters into the world; and also old ones who year by year are welcoming their grandsons and granddaughters into the world; both ages of fathers are the men I want to encourage to walk their fatherhood by faith with love.

Maybe your husband or the men of your church lack anyone caring for them, personally, as they raise their daughters and sons? Maybe no one exhorts, admonishes, or rebukes them with great patience? Maybe no one encourages them to not grow discouraged at the hard, hard work...

You may want to give a listen to this podcast by Allen County/Indiana Right to Life. It's a help when the interviewer has read the book before the interview, which Abigail Eschelbach had done—and I thank her. Pass the podcast on to others and tell them to buy the book. Each day I hear of others who have been helped by reading Daddy Tried, both men and women. Abigail's response is typical. At the end of the interview, she starts to say "I really enjoyed the book," but stops to correct herself—"well, I'm not sure 'enjoy' is the right word."

She's right. I've enjoyed C. S. Forester, and to a lesser degree, Patrick O'Brian. I enjoyed all the books on shepherding, sheep, and sheepdogs I read the past couple of years. But I loved...