Christian Fatherhood: The Eight Commitments of St. Joseph's Covenant Keepers [Paperback]

Steve Wood (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1, 1997

This best-selling book covers the eight commitments of St. Joseph's Covenant Keepers and gives dads the tools they need to succeed as a husband and father. Christian Fatherhood presents a genuine Christian perspective for renewing the world by restoring the vocation of fatherhood. Learn: The surest solution to all marriage problems; What children want most from you - and how to give it!; How to find time for your family in today's demanding world; What wives really want from their husbands; and more!

Editorial Reviews

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"Christian Fatherhood provides men with the basic training they need to complete (their) mission." -- Lt. Erik Prince, U.S. Navy SEAL

"Christian Fatherhood will be a great blessing to all who read it and put its teachings into practice." -- Mother Teresa

"The crisis in our society is a crisis of the family, a crisis of fatherhood, a crisis of faith." -- Paul C. Vitz, professor of psychology, New York University

About the Author

Steve and Karen Wood have been married twenty four years and are the parents of eight children. Steve has led youth, campus, and pro-life ministries. A graduate of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Massachusetts, he served as an Evangelical pastor in Florida for a decade before starting the Family Life Center International. Steve is the founder of St. Joseph's Covenant Keepers.

Product Details

• Paperback: 175 pages
• Publisher: Family Life Center Intl (November 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0965858200
• ISBN-13: 978-0965858205
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #895,608 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Practical, spiritual help for fathers, May 1, 2000

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Tim Drake "Author and Journalist" (Saint Joseph, Minnesota) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Christian Fatherhood: The Eight Commitments of St. Joseph's Covenant Keepers (Paperback)

FACT: Four out of ten American children will go to bed tonight in a home without their fathers (Blankenhorn, David, Fatherless America, 1995).

FACT: About 90 percent of single-parent homes are without a father. (U.S. Bureau of the Census, "Poverty in the U.S.: 1992")

FACT: Seventy percent of long-term prison inmates come from homes where the father wasn't present. ("Family Values Gain Control," The Wall Street Journal, December 12, 1995, p. A6)

So go the statistics...Drawing from the Bible and works such as Pope Pius XI's, Christian Marriage (Casti Connubii), Pope Paul VI's, Of Human Life (Humanae Vitae), and John Paul II's, The Role of the Christian Family in the Modern World (Familiaris Consortio) and Letter to Families, former Protestant minister turned Catholic, Steve Wood, offers 8 practical commitments that fathers can make to ensure they will leave a positive, lasting mark on their children and their children's children.

Wood takes the "Eight Commitments of the St. Joseph Covenant Keepers" and goes into much greater depth on them than he has in his audiotapes or brochures. Those commitments include: - Affirming Christ's Lordship Over Our Families - Following St. Joseph, the Loving Leader and Head of the Holy Family - Loving Our Wives All Our Lives - Turning Our Heart Toward Our Children - Educating Our Children in the Discipline and Instruction of the Lord - Protecting Our Families - Providing for Our Families - Building Our Marriages and Families on the "Rock"

Wood effectively uses Scripture, secular statistics, and papal encyclicals to provide practical things that fathers can do to build solid marriages and secure families. The book shows how desperately fathers are needed in a world which seems to say that they are not.

Any father wondering how he can raise a faithful family needs to own a copy of this book.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars To Be Shared, June 26, 2003

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Dan Holiday "takbodan" (Pennsylvania) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Christian Fatherhood: The Eight Commitments of St. Joseph's Covenant Keepers (Paperback)

Steve Wood's, "Christian Fatherhood" has had a continuing and growing influence on me. Having been married fourteen years, my wife and I have had our share of challenges. The wisdom and charity within this book has helped me be a more loving husband, a better father and has given me the confidence to teach my faith to my children.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect for Fathers Everywhere, March 9, 2003

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"polycarp28" (South Elgin, IL United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Christian Fatherhood: The Eight Commitments of St. Joseph's Covenant Keepers (Paperback)

Steve Wood and James Burnham have hit the nail on the head. They have identified the critical areas where fathers become either successes or failures. If you're a young father and want to know how to be a great father - this is the book for you. If you're an old father - and want validation for what you did right and identification for where you went wrong - this is the book for you.

The critical areas they deal with involve devotion to God, to Church, and to family. They show how to love and be faithful to your wife. They show how to love your children, and it's spelled T-I-M-E. They show the necessity of rightly ordering family life so that it aims at more than this family's life.

Having observed both Mr. Wood and Mr. Burnham's families, I can say that they practice what they preach and their children (while giving the struggles to their parents that is ordinary) are happy, healthy, and holy. The happiness of their wives and the marvels that are their childrens are astoundingly powerful testimonies of the truth they speak in this book.