Grissom Gazette

  A. B. Do not try to judge your father C. Do not be rude to him. D. Do not try to prove him wrong. E. Do not ignore your father. Rather, greet him when you come home, etc. give tacit acknowledgment to his presence. Behave as if he is there. F. Do not refuse to answer your father. Do not annoy your parents. Do not interrupt them. Do not try to change them, particularly their acquired habits from the culture of their youth. Do not yet to "modernize" your parents. Accept then implicitly with maximum loving acceptance, just as they are – remembering that they always showed up for you as a child, they worked hard for you at every turn, making daily sacrifices that no one the would have made for you, the kind that only parents do. Most importantly, ABIDE with them, as Christ did abide with His disciples, even when it was difficult. (This is very good for you,v adding all potential for neuroses, anxiety, despair, depression, and thus and such. In fact,...

  A. The Reputations of My Fathers 9 Dec 2025 * If today I slight my father (who passed away on Midsommer of 2007); then I must apologize to my Father in heaven for my sin before I can again worship the LORD. * I never received a punishment or correction from my father that I did not deserve. * The reputations of my father and grandfathers have not one smirch, mar, or stain. There is no record of any witness ever s peaking or writing against them. And my brother, James Jordan Long, can vouchsafe this. * God blessed me beyond measure in the character of my ancestors. Everyone in my community knew this and countless people told me this (people I had never before met (such as old men at country stores way out in the countryside when I stopped in to get a drink of water during a long run. * Therefore, I have no excuse not to do well in life and community. * Therefore, I stand without excuse. I must know God and worship Him. * They are the means by which God built ...

Do not disdain your father. The Bible says to honor a king. It also tells us to honor our parents. But, the two commands are not equivalent. One is a suggestion or round-about way of declaring a custom. The other is from the decalogue given by the LORD to Moses on Mount Sinai. If the Decalogue includes the command to honor one’s parents, then with all the more importance and gravity should one honor a parent than a king. It is easy to see in any culture how one honors a king, with many features held in common. In taking the command to honor one’s parents seriously, we do well to model our honor on the way a king or queen is honored… and then add to it what you can discern of the merit, place and value of a parent in society, plus the status bestowed and required by the Bible. The Bible should be your final rule. A. Do not interrupt him. (Pay very careful attention to this, because I have a bad habit to do this, though the Lord has been curing me of this, by His grac...