This Sunday is Fathers Day. We are going to be talking about how to be a dad your children will love. I love these pictures of Ryan, Will and Matt with their children
. These pictures capture what I want to say this Sunday. The love between dads and children is wonderful. God the Father is our model. Fathers want to be for their children what their Heavenly Father is to us. 1 John 1:3 1How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we 
are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 2Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. I like the way Eugene Peterson translates this passage in the Message - "What marvelous love the Father has extended to us! Just look at it—we're called children of God! That's who we really are. But that's also why the world doesn't recognize us or take us seriously, because it has no idea who he is or what he's up to. But friends, that's exactly who we are: children of God. And that's only the beginning. Who knows how we'll end up! What we know is that when Christ is openly revealed, we'll see him—and in seeing him, become like him. All of us who look forward to his Coming stay ready, with the glistening purity of Jesus' life as a model for our own."
. These pictures capture what I want to say this Sunday. The love between dads and children is wonderful. God the Father is our model. Fathers want to be for their children what their Heavenly Father is to us. 1 John 1:3 1How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we 
are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 2Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. I like the way Eugene Peterson translates this passage in the Message - "What marvelous love the Father has extended to us! Just look at it—we're called children of God! That's who we really are. But that's also why the world doesn't recognize us or take us seriously, because it has no idea who he is or what he's up to. But friends, that's exactly who we are: children of God. And that's only the beginning. Who knows how we'll end up! What we know is that when Christ is openly revealed, we'll see him—and in seeing him, become like him. All of us who look forward to his Coming stay ready, with the glistening purity of Jesus' life as a model for our own." 
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