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    The Golden Rule of Jesus
    Sermon on the Mount
    Ted Schroder - January 29, 2012

    What sort of relationship did you have with your father? I have a friend whose father was extremely taciturn, was verbally challenged, and emotionally absent. There was little or no communication between them. The father was probably very proud of his son but found himself incapable of expressing it. There was hardly any affirmation. Maybe his relationship with his own father was similarly handicapped. The model of masculinity was that of the strong, silent type. My friend was raised to be completely self-sufficient. He never received any help with his education. He worked his way through college. He learned never to ask his father for anything but to take care of it by himself. They did not do things together. He rarely took time to teach his son or to pass on anything of value.

    . When his father died there was little grieving because the relationship was so dissatisfying. Despite all this, my friend has become an exemplary father himself, with close and open communication between himself and his children – due, no doubt, to his experience of a close relationship with Jesus and his heavenly father. I have another friend whose relationship with her father was warm and close. She was made to feel that she was very special to him.  more »

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