How To Be A Hall Of Fame Father

How To Be A Hall Of Fame Father

Hebrews 11

The Top Ten Things You Learned From Your Father
10.When he was your age, kids had to walk six miles to school
in the snow and rain . . . uphill both ways.
9. If he had acted like you, his father would have knocked
him into the middle of next week.
8. When he was your age, kids had to make their own fun.
7. You weren’t born in a barn.
6. When he was your age, he had to work for what he got.
5. You don’t wanna make Dad stop the car.
4. “Because I said so” is a reason that makes perfect sense to an
adult.
3. You’d better stop crying or he’ll give you a reason to cry.
2. You’d lose your head if it wasn’t attached.
And the #1 thing you learned from your father . . .
1. Money doesn’t grow on trees!
I read an article entitled, “Dads turn out alright in time.”
4 years: My daddy can do anything!
7 years: My daddy knows a lot, a whole lot.
10 years: Dad doesn’t know quite everything.
12 years: Oh well, naturally father doesn’t understand.
14 years: Father? Hopelessly old-fashioned!
21 years: Oh, that man is out of date; what would you expect?
25 years: He comes up with a good idea now and then.
30 years: I need to find out what dad thinks about it.
35 years: Before we do anything, let’s call dad.
60 years: I wish I could talk it over with dad once more.
We say “thank you” and Happy Father’s Day to all of the Dads here today.

Hebrews 11:7 –“By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.”

Title Of Message –How To Be A Hall Of Fame Father

During the 1994 renovation of the second-floor exhibit area of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, a worker found slipped underneath a display case an old photo with a note on the back. The worker took the black and white photo to Ted Spencer, the museum’s curator and told him it had fallen out of one of the displays. When Spencer examined the photograph he realized that it was not a photograph of one of the 216 baseball giants immortalized at the museum.
The photograph was of a smiling man wearing a bulky Sinclair industrial-league baseball uniform from the 1940’s holding a bat over his right shoulder. They were puzzled as to who the man was in the photograph, where it came from, and how it came to be in the museum. A note on the back of the photograph offered a clue. It read, “You were never tired to play catch. On your days off you help build the Little League field. You always came to watch me play. You were a Hall of Fame Dad. I wish I could share this moment with you. Your Son Pete.”
Spencer sent the photograph to Steve Wulf at Sports Illustrated, who wrote an article that helped lead to the identity of the man in the photograph. Someone in the little town of Wellsville, New York, recognized the man as Joe O’Donnell. He had a son that lived in Andover by the name of Pat. After enlarging the picture on a copier, they realized that the name on the photo was actually Pat, not Pete. The son was contacted and he told the story of his Dad, the relationship of love and time they shared, and how he felt he was a Hall of Fame Father and deserved to be in the Hall of Fame. On a visit to the museum he had secretly inducted him into Baseball’s