We’ve had a fun year publishing blog posts each week for you. We hope you’ve enjoyed the posts and found them helpful and encouraging to you as a dad.

Let’s take a look back in review of our most popular blog posts this year. Here are the top five blog posts of 2021.

Top 5 Blog Posts of 2021

#1: 7 Roles of a Father

Stephen Kendrick of the Kendrick Brothers takes the top spot as the most viewed post of 2021. He writes in 7 roles of a father: Earthly fathers have the power to affect how children think about God the Father. We think:

• “If my earthly father loves and cares for me…then God loves and cares for me.”
• “If my father means what he says, then God means what He says.”
• “If my father would die for me, God would die for me.”

Sadly, this power earthly fathers have isn’t always on display in our homes. We need to set these roles in front of us as goals to model for our kids. Here are the 7 roles of a father.

http://www.fatherhoodcomission.com/7-roles-of-a-father/

#2: Responsibilities of a Father: Know How to Serve (and Constantly Improve)

Christopher Brown, President of National Fatherhood Initiative comes in a close second in our countdown of most-viewed blog posts. Brown talks about how you can assess your current level of service and find ways to improve.

He writes in responsibilities of a father: Here are three simple questions you can use to get yourself (or the dads you serve) started on an annual assessment.

• What are my strengths as a dad that I should keep doing?
• What are my challenges as a dad that I should seek to improve?
• What advice can I use that can help me double down on my strengths or address my challenges?

http://www.fatherhoodcomission.com/responsibilities-of-a-father/

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#4: Man Up > Research on the Importance of Fatherhood

Glenn Stanton writes about a Newsweek cover story on the importance of fatherhood week lamented the “man-problem” in America and did so as if the only problem facing the American male is lack of access to paternity leave from work.

Did lack of paternity leave prevent iconic television dads Andy Taylor or Heathcliff Huxtable (whose wife worked) from being good men? What about your own dad? Newsweek flubbed a wonderful opportunity to thoughtfully explore an important family and national issue. Attentive students of the family know the weakening of fatherhood is not new, nor does it center on access to paternal leave from work. It is about how a culture treasures and encourages fatherhood.

http://www.fatherhoodcomission.com/importance-of-fatherhood/

#5: 7 Ways to Make a Great Marriage

Thank you for following us this year. We hope you’ve found our posts helpful and encouraging. May God continue to bless you and your family in 2022.