The table Still Holds

By Paul Shepherd

The evidence is in, and it is grim: the smartphone in your child's hand is measurably harming him - and no rule, no lecture, no confiscation will fix what only a father's presence can.

In The Table Still Holds, pastor and author Paul Shepherd writes to the man who came home tired and quietly checked out - who loves his children and finds himself speaking to the top of their bowed heads, present in body while absent in every way that counts.

This is not a book about being the boss of your home. It is about the quieter, deeper leadership most fathers miss entirely: the leadership of a man who puts his own phone down, lifts his face, sits back down at his own table, and stays.

Written as a confession by a father who nearly missed it, and grounded in Scripture on every page, it returns to the one reliable gathering a family has left - the table - and shows how a father forms his children not by what he commands but by whether he is truly there.

The device is stealing your children. The answer is a present father. The table still holds - and it's still yours. Sit back down.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HHJXW6DX
• ISBN13: 9798171382148
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"