{"id":124075,"date":"2025-07-30T03:00:45","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T08:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=124075"},"modified":"2025-07-30T03:10:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T08:10:16","slug":"fearless-fatherhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=124075","title":{"rendered":"Fearless Fatherhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have never been good with blood&mdash;seeing blood that is. So, it was probably not a great idea that, many years ago, I agreed to coordinate the blood drive at my workplace. Even more foolish was my na&iuml;ve assumption that I could coordinate the event without giving blood myself. As the fateful day drew near, it became clear that my colleagues were not going to let me off the hook.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblicalcounselingcoalition.org\/2025\/07\/30\/fearless-fatherhood\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most men will not admit their innate fear of becoming a dad and often cover their insecurity with bravado and bluster. Some devolve into angry, apathetic, or absent parents, and their children suffer the consequences. For those who profess faith and believe in a heavenly father, we have a better path laid out for us. We are not called to have a false confidence in ourselves or our own abilities, but rather to trust more deeply in the one who made us for this calling. Counterintuitively, we are called to be our most dependent when we feel that others need us to be the most dependable. Continue Reading \u2192<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":804,"featured_media":124077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[279],"tags":[4477,936],"class_list":["post-124075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biblical-counseling-coalition-bcc","tag-fathers","tag-people-in-need-of-care","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/cropped-bcc-site-icon-1-32x32-7.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/804"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124075"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124078,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124075\/revisions\/124078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/124077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}