The prodigal son did not want to live in his father's presence. The older son did not know how to live in his father's presence. Both sons had the same problem--they desired fatherless parties. The younger son wasted his inheritance while the older brother slaved in the midst of his--trying to earn what he refused to receive. Asking is the privilege of sons, an authority hidden from orphans. God, the creator of all mankind, desires to be your Father. When the disciples asked Jesus to teach them how to pray, the first two words He gave them, "Our Father," set the tone and reality of the entire prayer. If these two words do not grip our hearts, the rest of the words lose context as well as the implicit favor that comes from that dynamic personal relationship.There are keys to receiving our inheritance that are absolutely necessary to fulfill our destiny. The prodigal was restored by his father's love and mercy, but it was his father's celebration that completed and empowered his life. Your best robe is in His closet. It's time to enter your Father's celebration! Dale has served as senior pastor to Destiny Christian Church in Dover, Delaware since 1983. He is married to LuAnne Mast and they have six children and four grandchildren. They travel nationally and internationally together as conference speakers. Dale is a father to many, serving in various networks and ministry boards. He also authored "And David Perceived He Was King."

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In Beer-Sheba, the town of Abraham, an old man lies dying - a little man from Poland, earthbound and a stranger, particularly to his one, unforgiving son, Daniel. Once the little man, Haim Kalinsky, had to play God - when Nazis sodiers forced him to choose which of his two sons would live and which would be shot. Instinctively the father chose Shmuel, and left Daniel to fate. Now Fate has come full circle - for Shmuel died, while Daniel ultimately reached safety in Israel, there to grow into a strong handsome man, marred only by the memory of Yoram, his best friend, whose death is Daniel's guilt. --From publisher's description.

The acclaimed author of "Jewel" "observes and beautifully renders those small moments that can change a life" ("The New York Times Book Review"), in this sweeping true saga of the ties that bind. Photos. Father's Day tie in.

When Arkady Petrovich comes home from college, his father finds his eager, naive son changed almost beyond recognition, for the impressionable Arkady has fallen under the powerful influence of the friend he has brought with him. A self-proclaimed nihilist, the ardent young Bazarov shocks Arkady's father by criticizing the landowning way of life and by his outspoken determination to sweep away traditional values of contemporary Russian society. Turgenev's depiction of the conflict between generations and their ideals stunned readers when Fathers and Sons was first published in 1862. But many could also sympathize with Arkady's fascination with its nihilist hero whose story vividly captures the hopes and regrets of a changing Russia.

An exceptional father-son story from the National Book Award–winning author of Between the World and Me about the reality that tests us, the myths that sustain us, and the love that saves us. Paul Coates was an enigmatic god to his sons: a Vietnam vet who rolled with the Black Panthers, an old-school disciplinarian and new-age believer in free love, an autodidact who launched a publishing company in his basement dedicated to telling the true history of African civilization. Most of all, he was a wily tactician whose mission was to carry his sons across the shoals of inner-city adolescence—and through the collapsing civilization of Baltimore in the Age of Crack—and into the safe arms of Howard University, where he worked so his children could attend for free. Among his brood of seven, his main challenges were Ta-Nehisi, spacey and sensitive and almost comically miscalibrated for his environment, and Big Bill, charismatic and all-too-ready for the challenges of the streets. The Beautiful Struggle follows their divergent paths through this turbulent period, and their father’s steadfast efforts—assisted by mothers, teachers, and a body of myths, histories, and rituals conjured from the past to meet the needs of a troubled present—to keep them whole in a world that seemed bent on their destruction. With a remarkable ability to reimagine both the lost world of his father’s generation and the terrors and wonders of his own youth, Coates offers readers a small and beautiful epic about boys trying to become men in black America and beyond. Praise for The Beautiful Struggle “I grew up in a Maryland that lay years, miles and worlds away from the one whose summers and sorrows Ta-Nehisi Coates evokes in this memoir with such tenderness and science; and the greatest proof of the power of this work is the way that, reading it, I felt that time, distance and barriers of race and class meant nothing. That in telling his story he was telling my own story, for me.”—Michael Chabon, bestselling author of The Yiddish Policemen’s Union and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay “Ta-Nehisi Coates is the young James Joyce of the hip hop generation.”—Walter Mosley