Sermon 6-19-02 fathers day Romans 8:14-17
I am not a perfect father
Always something that your children could say in a bad light
Like to be know as one of the good ones
Like to thing that for every bad one there was 50 good stories
James 1:17 Every good and perfect gift comes from above from the father
List gifts that fathers give
Do our fathers love us?
My dad loved me, showed it by a,b,c
Taught me about values
Shoes, not new, but shoes
Taught me to respect my mother
Heard it first when I was 38
Earthly parents usually provide intellectual or emotional
Rarely the spiritual and character guidance needed
1960 17% no biological father present
1990 38% no biological father present
some inner city neighborhoods 80% no biological father present
Someone must love our children……
Allen Walden’s letter
Like to tell my children how I feel about them today
• Everynight when I lock the doors before bed……
• Everynight when I go in to check on you….
• Every day that I leave lunch money on the table….
• Everytime I drive you somewhere……
• Everytime we share a joke…..
• Everytime I invite you to work around the house…..
• Everytime I am hugging you…. Everytime we have a talk….
• Every time that I tell you that I love you, I m telling you that I love you
Abba Father………….Daddy
We don’t get it
Nothing can separate you from the love of Christ
Except your inability to understand and appropriate it
Someone here in the pews that you like
Who is it
Stand up …they are excited about you.
God is more excited than that
This is how he feels about you…..happy fathers day
This love is the tie that binds
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