When my beautiful daughter, Elen, was born almost 6 years ago, my life changed forever. Becoming a dad did something inside me - my heart melted! Perhaps even more importantly it radically altered the way I understood my relationship with God and in so many profound ways my little girl has taught me lesson after lesson about both myself and my loving Father God.
Consequently, I started using my experiences as a new dad to preach the gospel whenever evangelistic opportunities arose, be they in churches, coffee shops or even prisons. I was frequently blown away by the ways in which people, especially hard men, started to truly grasp the essence of the gospel through the eyes of the Father.
Therefore, after collating a whole bunch of material for a talk I did, I decided that I would try to write a small evangelistic booklet called ‘Lessons I’ve Learned From My Little Girl’ that simply and profoundly explains the heart of the gospel through my own experiences as a dad. However, with all the good intention in the world I never got round to doing it, much to my own annoyance. So I wrote a series of eight blog posts back in 2009, and now they are re-appearing on the Good Book Blog over the next few weeks. It’s my prayer that by the final installment a pretty full picture of the gospel and the urgency to respond to it will have been painted.
Hope you enjoy reading them, and perhaps you’ll take the time to add feedback and share some of your own parent/child experiences that illuminate the Father’s love for us.
Dai Hankey is a church-planting pastor in South Wales and the author of the The Hard Corps soon to be published by The Good Book Company.
Dai Hankey is a church-planting pastor in Cardiff, where he lives with his wife, Michelle, and four young children. He is founder of Red Community, a Christian charity that fights human trafficking in Wales. Dai is a former skateboarder and loves to DJ. He is the author of The Hard Corps, A Man's Greatest Challenge and the Eric Says… series.
