SERMONS FOR FATHER'S DAY
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Methuselah's Father
by Jerry Vines
This will not be a message you have heard on this subject. This is something brand new which I feel the Lord has given to me for our fathers this morning. This is the day we honor our fathers. It is interesting how Father's Day began. In 1910 there was a lady named Senora Dodd in Spokane, Washington. She was sitting in a church service on Mother's Day and as she was listening to a sermon about mothers, she thought about her father. Her father was a Civil War veteran. Her mom had died early in life so for all of the years of her life and the years of her siblings, they had been brought up by their father. He was...
Man Up
by Donald Cantrell
This is a ''Father's Day'' sermon that challenges men to ''Man Up.'' In the days of Ezekiel Israel was facing deviancy and debauchery, so before inflicting wrath and judgment upon the people, God sought for a man that would intercede on the behalf of his nation, but none were found. There was not one man that was willing to ''Man Up'' and hold his ground and honor his God.'' The great need in America today is for ''men'' to be ''real men'' that are interceders for their family, their nation, on behalf of their God. At 3:15 on the morning of March 13, 1964, a 28-year-old bar manager named Kitty Genovese drove her red...
Set Your House in Order
by Rex Yancey
2 Chronicles 31:20-21 gives us a background to King Hezekiah. ''And thus Hezekiah did throughout all Judah; and he did what was good, right and true before the Lord his God. And every work which he began in the service of the house of God, he did with all his heart and prospered.'' Hezekiah was 25 years old when he became Judah's 13th King. Israel had divided after Solomon. Ten tribes followed Jeroboam. Two tribes had followed Rehoboam. Israel had turned from God and polluted their land with idol worship. Ahaz, Hezekiah's predecessor ''Made high places to burn incense unto other gods, and provoked to anger the Lord...
Remaking Your Home into a Church (6 of 6)
by Scott Maze
Today, we close out the series and put a bow on it. Here's what's next: Eleven 2: We Pray, He Moves I want you to make a special effort to be here for every message in this series. It's so important that we be taught by Jesus how to pray and this should be really good time together. Happy Father's Day or for the ladies, today is ''National Elbow Your Husband in the Ribs During the Sermon Day'' He's the strongest man in the world and ''my dad can beat up your dad!'' There is a difference between a Bonsai tree, a dwarf of a tree no more than 4 to 6 inches in height, and a California Redwood. California's Redwood...
How Do You Spell Father?
by Daniel Rodgers
INTRODUCTION: Today is ''father's Day. It is a day we honor our fathers and our grandfathers. In Scripture we are commanded of the Lord to ''honor'' our fathers and or mothers. On May the 11th, we celebrated Mother's Day, and today we celebrate and honor our dads. ILLUS: Let me begin with a brief story: This particular family had three small children who were determined to have a puppy. Mom protested because she knew that somehow or other, she would end up caring for the critter. True to form, the children solemnly promised that they would take care of it. Eventually, she relented and they brought their little puppy...
What Fathers Teach
by Roger Thomas
Introduction: Fathers are teachers. We are. Every father is. Not should be or could be. Fathers are teachers. Today we honor all of our fathers, grandfathers, uncles, and all the men who fill such important roles in the lives of our families and our church. Fathers we salute you. We want you to know how important you are to us. We want you to know that we realize how much you teach us. Our fathers teach us much. Mine did. I am sure yours did. They probably teach us much more than we realize. We can use all the reminders of that we can get. Our text offers such a reminder. Acts 7 provides a summary of the Old...
A Father's Love
by David Cawston
Introduction: Happy Father's Day A small boy's definition of Father's Day: "It's just like Mother's Day only you don't spend as much." Definition of a father... "A father is a man who carries pictures in his wallet where his money used to be." Paul Harvey's definition of a father..."A father is a thing that is forced to endure childbirth without an anesthetic.... A father never feels worthy of the worship in a child's eyes. He's never quite the hero his daughter thinks, never quite the man his son believes him to be, and this worries him, sometimes. So he works too hard to try and smooth out the rough places in the road for those of...
How to Be an Influential Father
by Ernest Easley
Introduction: Happy Father's Day A small boy's definition of Father's Day: "It's just like Mother's Day only you don't spend as much." Definition of a father... "A father is a man who carries pictures in his wallet where his money used to be." Paul Harvey's definition of a father..."A father is a thing that is forced to endure childbirth without an anesthetic.... A father never feels worthy of the worship in a child's eyes. He's never quite the hero his daughter thinks, never quite the man his son believes him to be, and this worries him, sometimes. So he works too hard to try and smooth out the rough places in the road for those of...
The Parable of the Perfect Father
by Jim Henry
A pastor friend of mine said that a young lady came for counseling and sat down across from him. She was thirty years old, single and teary eyed. As she talked to him and shared her heart, it was evident that she saw that marriage had to be the key to her happiness. Without marriage, all she could see was protracted loneliness. So, as he listened to her, he said, ''What kind of man are you looking for?'' He said for the next thirty minutes, she told him what kind of man she was looking for. He said that after hearing her ideal of a man that has never existed, he said to her, ''Could you just bring it down to one phrase...
Father: The Leader of the Band
by Adrian Rogers
Take God's Word now and look at it, Psalm one hundred and twenty-eight. Now just keep that in mind and let me tell you that when Mary Magdalene came to the empty tomb that Easter morning, she saw someone. It was the Lord Jesus. And she didn't know it was Jesus, at first she thought perhaps it was the gardener. And then He spoke to her, she recognized Him and said, ''Rabboni,'' Or, or Master. And she ran to Him. And Jesus said to her, and you'll find all of this by the way in John chapter twenty, but just keep you Bible right there in the book of Psalms. And she ran to Him, reached out to touch Him and He said to her....
The Committed Father
by Tony Nester
Father's Day was observed for the first time on June 19, 1910 in Spokane, Washington. The Spokane Ministerial Association persuaded the city fathers to set aside a Sunday "honor thy father". The idea came from a local homemaker, 28 years old, a Mrs. John Bruce Todd, who had been inspired by her father, William Smart, a Civil War Veteran who had raised her and her five brothers after the early death of his wife.[1] That helps us recognize what Father's Day is really all about: honoring committed fathers. That's important because there's a lot of evidence that our society is hurting because of the shortage...
The Waiting Father
by Chris Walls
Introduction: Today the idea of the true fatherhood is hard to define. The world we live in has turned being a good father on its heals. We have fathers who abuse their children. We have divorce that hurts the family and then the fathers stop supporting their children or even seeing their children. We have kids who do not even know their father. Then you have fathers that are work-aholics and do not spend much time with their children. This has given us a world of hurt and pain when people hear the word FATHER. In the Christian life it is compounded even more because we describe God as our FATHER. When we...
A Father's Hand
by Daniel Rodgers
LLUS: J. F. Carter relates the following childhood story...As a boy in Oklahoma, my family would spend a lot of time on the creeks and rivers. As a small boy my Dad would take me by the hand and would wade out to the sandbar in the streams. The swift water was dark and often over my head, but how I loved and enjoyed the water, because of my father's hand. My father is dead, now, and if asked, "What do you miss about your Dad?" it would be his hand. Let me encourage you today by this: All of us have a hand we can hold on to. It is the hand of God. We can remember the words of the Psalms: "If I take the wings...
The Model Father
by Rex Yancey
Leonard Nimoy, star of the science fiction series "Star Trek" narrated a show entitled In Search Of. Most of the time, Nimoy was searching for the answer to some mystery. This morning we are going to search for the model father. I realize that this will be a difficult search. If I should give you an opportunity to respond to the question "What are the characteristics of a model father?" you no doubt would give me different answers. One wife told her husband that he was a model husband. He would swell with pride when she told him this. However, a fellow employee, told him to look up the word in the dictionary. He did. It said...
The Fellowship of the Father
by Mark Baker
Ephesians 2:4 But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, It is so important for us to know that we are greatly loved by God the Father. How can we come into any kind of a close personal relationship with some one including our Heavenly Father if we think that person is out to get us? This is completely opposite of the truth, and not at all what our Heavenly Father wants from us. 1 John 4:19 We love Him because He first loved us. It is because He first loved us that He wanted to restore the fellowship that was lost in the Garden of Eden. After all, He went to great lengths to redeem us. He...
A Father's Blessing
by Brian Fletcher
Intro: Father's Day can be joyful and difficult all at the same time. Some of us have amazing fathers, who have cared for us really well. Others do not have fathers or have experienced a strained relationship with their fathers. I would have said when I was young that I had a really good dad. He came to my games, he took me fishing, he taught me the value of work. However, now as an adult, I look back and see tremendous dysfunction. My dad was an alcoholic, he did not take care of my mom the way he should have, and he took advantage of my brother at different times, he brought our family to the brink of financial...
Father Who Leads
by Claude Thomas
A recent commencement speaker at one of America's prominent universities said, "there's been a basic breakdown in family and moral values in this country and it cuts across all races and classes and political ideologies. I'm tired of hearing people say, 'Why doesn't somebody do something?'" Who is to lead? This responsibility is laid at our doorstep, men.
Father Knows Best-Better
by Ron Clarkson
WELCOME: Happy Fathers Day and welcome to Oakdale Community Church. This morning we are going to have an enjoyable time as we continue to take a look at Dad. Let's ask the heavenly Father to speak to us about earthly fathers this morning. PRAYER: Father, we thank you for those dads that you have given to us, your children. We thank you for their love, dedication, strength and stability. We ask you, Father, that this morning you will encourage them in the fantastic job you have given them to do. I also pray for those who are the beneficiaries of a Dad, that you will show them how to express appreciation...
[Father’s Day] - As for Me and My House
by SermonSearch Staff
Good morning! Happy Father’s Day! We are so thankful you are here this morning. Turn with me to the book of Joshua 24:14. I was thinking about Father’s Day and I thought about leadership, choices, passion, and inspiration. I was then reminded of this passage in Joshua and realized that this is the perfect text to preach on today. Yes, it absolutely applies to the father’s here this morning. But it also applies to all of us here as we realize, together, what it means to follow the Lord. Here’s the context of the passage we will be looking at today. Joshua had just given a final address to all of Israel, encouraging them...
The Loving Father (Father's Day)
by Tony Thomas
Father's Day isn't nearly as big as Mother's Day. The florist isn't overworked, card sales aren't nearly as profitable, restaurants will be half-filled, and church attendance pales in comparison. On Mother's Day pastors all across America praise Mom for her sacrifices, and everybody weeps. But on Father's Day we talk about absentee father's, deadbeat dad's statistics are recited, and we lay on the guilt for not being there for the kids. If you look up the word ''father'' in the dictionary it occurs just before the word ''fatigue,'' and just after the word, ''fathead!'' Billy Crystal was in NY when his daughter Lindsay...
