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"Love covers a multitude of sins."  It's a prayer I pray for my children -- That my love  will cover my mistakes.  It  worked for my Dad, because though I  knew  he wasn't perfect,  I always knew he loved me. 

We hope this newsletter on Father's Day will help you honor the amazing yet imperfect men in your congregation. The staff at SermonCentral would also like to honor our fathers  --   Marty, Lenert, Max, and  William, we love you and honor you for the role that you played in our lives.     

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In This Issue

1. Top 5 Sermons On Fathers's Day

2. Top 5 Illustrations On Father's Day

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1. Top 5 Sermons On Father's Day

HOW TO MAKE OR BREAK A DAD
by Lyndon Marcotte:  Luke 15:11-24
Let’s be honest though father’s day is just not as big as mother’s day. But that’s understandable because fathers are not as sentimental as mothers. I heard of young mother who went down to the nursery at a hospital and found her young husband peering down at his newborn baby who was asleep. The more

COMING HOME ON FATHER'S DAY
by David Washburn:  Luke 15:20-24
Dads, today is our day, but Father’s Day has somehow never been held in as high regard as Mother’s Day. Mother’s just have that certain something. After all, whenever you see someone holding a sign or mouthing “hello,” they’re saying, “Hi, Mom,” and usually not, “Hi Dad.” Now, I’m not more

FATHER'S DAY 2002
by Steve Shepherd:  Ephesians 6:2-2
Susan from St. Louis said, "I was preparing breakfast on Father’s Day morning when I told my 3-year-old to go and wish his daddy a "Happy Father’s Day." I repeated the phrase several times and we practiced it together so he would remember. By the time he made his way into the living room he had more

I KNOW MY FATHER CARES
by Dr. Dave Hartson:  Hebrews 12:5-11
I want to begin my sermon this morning by reading a poem from a young teenage girl from Chicago named Maggie Gross. Listen to her words carefully.

Do you know, do you understand, that you represent Jesus to me? more

GOD’S PLAN FOR THE MAN
by Ed Wood:  Psalms 128:1-6
If there’s anything in shortage today it is men. Real men who will say as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. Not everyone who is a male is a man. I mean a real man, a godly man. You can be born a male, but it takes maturity to be a man. You’re young only once, but you can be immature more

2. Top 5 Illustrations On Father's Day

A LITTLE GIRL ONCE SAID TO HER MOTHER
“Mommy, if Santa Claus brings our presents, and God gives us our daily bread, and Uncle Sam gives us Social Security, why do we keep daddy around?”
   
Contributed by:  Bruce Howell

SHOPPING FOR DAD'S GIFT
If you think about it, Adam had more trouble than any of the rest of us buying his father a gift for Father’s Day. I mean, what do you get somebody who’s Everything?

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DON'T SWEAT MESSING UP
Most men think that they have to be perfect when they’re with their kids. This is not only not good, it's bad training. Better you should just continue being a mess-up. Fall off your bike. Drop an easy pop fly. Order a really dumb product from some lame infomercial you saw on TV. Make a fool of yourself on the ski slopes. The sooner kids understand that you’re not perfect, the sooner they’ll realize that they don’t have to be perfect."

SOURCE: Joe Queenan, 47, Writer and Father to Two. As quoted in Wisdom of our Fathers by Kita, Joe. Emmaus Pennsylvania: Daybreak Books, 1999.   

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A PRAYER FOR MY SON
Gen. Douglas MacArthur wrote this prayer for his son. He prayed:
"Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, & brave enough to face himself when he is afraid. One who will be proud & unbending in honest defeat, & humble &
gentle in victory.

"Build me a son whose wishes will not take the place of deeds - a son who will know Thee, who is the foundation stone of knowledge. Lead him, I pray, not in the path of ease & comfort, but under the stress & spur of difficulties & challenge.

"Here let him learn to stand up to the storm. Here let him learn compassion for those who fail. Build me a son whose heart will be clear, whose goal will be high, a son who will master himself before he seeks to master other men, one who will reach into the future, yet never forget the past.

"And after all these things are his, add, I pray, enough of a sense of humor so that he may always be serious but never take himself too seriously. Give him humility so that he may always remember the simplicity of true greatness, & an open mind of true wisdom, & the meekness of true strength.

"Then I, his father, will dare to whisper, `I have not lived in vain.’"
   
Contributed by:  MELVIN NEWLAND 

SOME GOOD ADVICE
I am still waiting for my father to talk to me about sex and success, money and marriage, religion and raising kids. Since he died in 1991, I guess I don’t have much chance of ever benefiting from all of the lessons he learned in life. It’s not that he was a bad dad; he was just a quiet one. Even in the best father-son relationships, there’s an uncomfortable familiarity that inhibits us from talking like friends.
  
It’s not that our fathers have too little to say to us, but rather too much. Some of them fought the Nazis and struggled through the Depression. They loved women, lost women, raised difficult kids, met every manner of person, good and bad. They witnessed the trajectory of their own careers and lots of others; watched heroes, fads, and politicians come and go; learned what’s important and what’s not. They’ve been so many places we have yet to travel.
  
But since neither father nor son knows where or how to start these conversations, we talk about cars, sports, or the weather instead.
The shame of it is, I don’t know a man my age who doesn’t feel that he’s navigating his life without a map. Our fathers may not have all the directions, but they sure know where a lot of the potholes and detours lie.

There’s a lot of wisdom out there, if only we can ask and listen.
SOURCE: Joe Kita. Wisdom of Our Fathers. Emmaus Pennsylvania: Daybreak Books, 1999. p 1.   

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