Fathers & Sons: Stand Fast in the Way of Truth
Douglas Bond
P&R Publishing, December 2007, 331 pp., $14.99
www.prpbooks.com
Manhood: Let the Truth Be Told
Tom Fortson
Moody Publishers, July 2008, 144 pp., $11.99
www.moodypublishers.com
Hero: Becoming the Man She Desires
Fred Stoeker and Jason Stoeker
WaterBrook, April 2009, 240 pp., $13.99
www.randomhouse.com/waterbrook
This triad is a good start for fathers and sons to communicate as they journey together. These books ring out a loud battle cry for men to hold strong against the erosion of our changing culture. While Manhood leans toward an older crowd, Fathers & Sons and Hero are great steps toward dads and sons discussing living with purity in body and soul. These books all present blatantly honest messages that all men following Christ must hear and re-hear.
Hero is co-written with Fred Stoeker’s honest, hold-nothing-back style. Fred shares the victory of Jason’s sexual purity, even though he did not provide him with the best example of purity. In Fathers & Sons, Bond shares tidbits of his own adventures in mountaineering and redefines manhood not as what you do but as who you are. Manhood is written in the shadow of the Promise Keepers movement as Fortson shares his desire to see men grip God’s truth and live lives worth following. I challenge you to pick up one of these three!
