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  1. Rachel was the beloved wife, to be sure, but she was not the maternal link between Eve and Mary. That blessed position belonged to Leah.
  2. The world doesn’t need dads who are more stressed than they already are. It needs fathers who care for their families, not in heroic ways, but in common, everyday ways.
  3. Let’s stop pretending that we’ll wait for our children to grow up so they can choose their religion. Parents always choose their children’s religion. Without exception. It’s just that, in some cases, this religion operates under a different name.
  4. The love between David and Jonathan, and the suspicion of Saul.
  5. Joseph was not the father of Jesus, but then again, he was. Jesus was the true offspring of the heavenly Father, but even the Son of God needed a daddy.
  6. In the vortex of uncertainty and upheaval, what’s the best thing we can do? Seize the ordinary.
  7. Jonathan saw in David a reflection of who he himself was. This recognition pulled him outside himself and bound him to another.
  8. Our very lives as parents and children implicitly proclaim this higher and lovely truth: we have no value to God based upon our usefulness.
  9. One of the first steps in recovering from a broken marriage is to find ways to heal the divorce that’s happened within our own souls.
  10. In this religious Sodom, we had a Jesus with the heart of Moses whose gospel was a new and improved law.
  11. As important as the training of your children is, much more important is handing them over to God—from the very beginning, from infancy, and beyond.
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