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When Your Father Dies: How a Man Deals with the Loss of His Father
Whether his passing was sudden or gradual, regardless of the health of the father-son relationship . . . when the man who gave you life dies, a part of you dies as well. It is an emotional rite of passage that affects who you are, how you relate to others, how you deal with your past, and how you face your future.
You will find study questions at the end of each chapter in this book as authors Dave Veerman and Bruce Barton share their own emotional journeys, along with the insights and practical advice of professional counselors.
Each chapter of When Your Father Dies also focuses on a specific life experience with personal accounts of men – some famous and some not – who have lost their
"My father's death changed my relationship with God. I learned that He's in charge, not me."
"When I realized how young my dad had died [at 59], I knew that I had no time to waste if I was going to make something of my life."
More than a book about grief, When your Father Dies is a map through the complex emotions and chages a man goes through following the loss of his father.
You will find study questions at the end of each chapter in this book as authors Dave Veerman and Bruce Barton share their own emotional journeys, along with the insights and practical advice of professional counselors.
Each chapter of When Your Father Dies also focuses on a specific life experience with personal accounts of men – some famous and some not – who have lost their
"My father's death changed my relationship with God. I learned that He's in charge, not me."
"When I realized how young my dad had died [at 59], I knew that I had no time to waste if I was going to make something of my life."
More than a book about grief, When your Father Dies is a map through the complex emotions and chages a man goes through following the loss of his father.
234 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 18, 2003
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May 21, 2017
If you are a conservative evangelical Christian, you will probably find this book extremely helpful. If you are a Christian, you will find it pretty helpful. If you are agnostic or atheist, you will get a little bit of help from this (the stories from different men about the death of their fathers was a bit helpful to see all the different reactions men have), but it's probably better to find another book instead. I probably should have stopped reading when they quoted James Dobson, head of "Focus on the Family" (an anti-gay hate group according to the Southern Poverty Law Center) in the intro, but I couldn't sleep last night and decided to just read the whole thing.
Two stars because while it quoted Dobson twice, I didn't get any anti-gay message from the book; just a very Christian one.
Two stars because while it quoted Dobson twice, I didn't get any anti-gay message from the book; just a very Christian one.
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