Recently, I received an email from the daughter of a Christian author I met years ago. The email said, “If you knew my father, visit this website.”  

Instead of a tribute to his passing, this website was a diatribe by his daughter on what an adulterous and hypocritical man her father had been. There are two sides to every story, but this author wrote about integrity and faith in multiple books, yet his own daughter believed her father’s life was a total fraud. 

Jesus said in Mark 7:6, “Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites; as it is written: “‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.” 

If you desire an untarnished legacy, practice what you preach and start with your family.