"The Preeminent Jesus in My Father, My Pastor" explores what it means to make Jesus first in both principle and practice. It outlines the principles of Jesus' preeminence from Paul's hymnic description in Colossians 1:15-23 and illustrates their practice in the example of a father and a pastor, Richard Dresselhaus, whose aspiration at home and at church was "that in everything he might be preeminent." His example challenges fathers and pastors to put Jesus first and thereby set a course worthy of imitation by watching children and observant congregants.