Sunday 6/19/16 Fathers' Day

Dear Father in Heaven: I love You! Please forgive me of my sins and thank You, Father in Heaven, for making man and woman so that someday there could be such a thing as Fathers' Day. Most of all as I wish others a Happy Fathers' Day, I want to praise and say to You, Happy Fathers' Day. Praise You, Father, for bringing the family we have been praying over each day back home safe. All honor and glory is Yours for this. Now, dear Lord, if You would please bless this earthly father a message on this day and also help me get it dispatched, I surely would appreciate it. In Jesus' Wonderful Name, I pray. Amen.

Dear brothers and sisters, for all of you dads on this line, may God truly bless your day.

Please accept our sincere thanks for covering a family that was traveling this past week. The families were in part our extended family including families from my former wife Karen and Sam Mummert. All honor and glory to God for this blessing of a safe outing.

Tomorrow is June 20th and the first day of summer. You will hear a lot of weather folks saying it is the longest day of the year. Are they right? On the first day of winter, December 21st, you will hear the weather people saying it is the shortest day of the year. Are they right? The answer to the question is NO!!! All days have 24 hours year round. Just thought you might want to know. Now for the message.

Sunday: June 19, 2016: Fathers' Day

On this Fathers' Day, I want to talk to you about Love. Love is something we all need to have. You saw above that I prayed for my former wife and her present family along with the children our marriage produced. The fact is Dolores and I truly love all of them and that is going back to Jesus and how He loves all of us enough even to give His life on the cross for us.

Galatians 5:22a - But the fruit of the Spirit is love. (NIV)

Joshua 24:15 - But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your forefathers served beyond the River or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. (NIV)

(Joshua publicly makes his commitment, hoping to elicit the same from Israel. - NIV footnote)

I am going to tell you right now that love can be a four letter word, but it also can be spelled with three letters, five letters and even six. Please follow me on this.

God (three letters), Jesus (five letters), Spirit (six letters).

Over the years I have pointed out in John 3:16 "For GOD so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son (Jesus) that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life." (NIV)

Today I used Galatians to point out the Spirit is love. Also I used Joshua to just point out about how we need to go public on our love for Jesus so that others might hear it from us and that will maybe encourage others to make that step of faith and become "Born Again." You have many choices on how to share God's love. Last Thursday Dolores and I stopped at a local Cracker Barrel Restaurant for breakfast. This was a late morning breakfast, and for our wedding anniversary which we had not celebrated.

Lots of people helped hold open doors for we were both really walking badly, and I use a walker all the time. After breakfast I had to go potty, and a paid staff person held the door open for me to go in. I thanked her! On coming out of the men's room a young lad, maybe often years of age, saw me coming and stepped back and held the door. I said to him, I need to wash my hands and dry them, and he waited and held the door. What a really nice young man, and I stopped going out and said to him, "someone taught you some good manners," to which he smiled and said "yes." I  told him good manners needed to be rewarded and reached in my pocket and gave him a five dollar bill. Then I smiled at him and said, "Smile, Jesus loves you, pass it on." Will he pass on the love of Jesus? I pray he will. I just did what God told me to do. "Love others."

How have you shown the love of Jesus lately? Please do it in some way everyday.

Now please go forth sharing the love of Jesus to all others. Love ya.

Pastor Dan