1. We would love to have you share something about your dad from the following:
The spiritual impact your dad had on your life (if applicable).
A lesson about life you dad taught you.
A funny incident about your dad.
Your dad’s favorite saying.

2. “Every father should remember that one day his son will follow his example instead of his advice”

3. “My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard
“My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard.  Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass."  "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply.  "We're raising boys.”  ~Harmon Killebrew

4. Love and fear.  Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.  ~Joseph Joubert

5. When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around.  But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.  ~Mark Twain

6. There are three stages of a man's life:  He believes in Santa Claus, he doesn't believe in Santa Claus, he is Santa Claus. 

7. A father is always making his baby into a little woman
A father is always making his baby into a little woman.  And when she is a woman he turns her back again.  ~Enid Bagnold

8. If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right. ~ Bill Cosby

9. “I'm so ugly - My father carries around a picture of the kid who came with his wallet” Roger Dangerfield

10. The Father’s Heart Regarding Fathers

11. I. God has privileged men to share in a divine name, that of “father.”

12. II. God has ordained that fathers be honored by their children

13. “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be prolonged in the land which the Lord your God gives you.”
Exodus 20:12

14. III. Fathers can leave a legacy that can impact future generations.

15. A righteous man who walks in his integrity -- How blessed are his sons after him. Proverbs 20:7

16. The steps of a man are established by the Lord, And He delights in his way.
When he falls, he will not be hurled headlong, Because the Lord is the One who holds his hand.
I have been young and now I am old, Yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken or his descendants begging bread.
All day long he is gracious and lends, And his descendants are a blessing Psalm 37:23-26

17. A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, And the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the righteous. Proverbs 13:22

18. IV. Even unbelieving fathers can have a positive impact on their children

19. For the unbelieving husband is sanctified through his wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified through her believing husband; for otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy I Corinthians 7:14

20. V. It is the Father’s will that broken relationships between fathers and their children be healed

21. Question: What is the last thing God says in the Old Testament?

22. "Behold, I am going to send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and terrible day of the Lord.
"He will restore the hearts of the fathers to their children and the hearts of the children to their fathers, so that I will not come and smite the land with a curse."
Malachi 4:5-6

23. We would love to have you share something about your dad from the following:
The spiritual impact your dad had on your life (if applicable).
A lesson about life you dad taught you.
A funny incident about your dad.
Your dad’s favorite saying.