1. A Father’s Heart

2. A Father… Engages Teaches Leads Blesses Points to God

3. A Father… Engages Teaches Leads Blesses Points to God

4. Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it. - Prov 22:6 ESV

5. “For though you have countless [teachers] in Christ, you do not have many fathers.” – 1 Cor 4:15a ESV

6. A Father… Engages Teaches Leads Blesses Points to God

7. 3 Children are a gift from the Lord, they are a reward from Him. 4 Children born to a young man are like sharp arrows in a warrior's hands. - Ps 127:3-4 NLT

8. “…choose you this day whom ye will serve … as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” – Josh 24:15 KJV

9. A Father… Engages Teaches Leads Blesses Points to God

10. 9 Joseph said to his father, “They are my sons, whom God has given me here.” And Jacob said, “Bring them to me, please, that I may bless them.” 10 Now the eyes of Jacob were dim with age, so that he could not see. So Joseph brought them near him, and he kissed them and embraced them. - Gen 48:9-10 ESV

11. 15 And he blessed Joseph and said, “The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has been my shepherd all my life long to this day, 16 the angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the boys; and in them let my name be carried on, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.” - Gen 48:15-16 ESV

12. A Father’s Blessing 1.Touch (v 10) 2.Word (vv 15-16) 3.Cherish (v 16) 4.Trust (v 16) 5.Example From The Blessing, John Trent & Gary Smalley

13. A Father… Engages Teaches Leads Blesses Points to God

14. Happy Fathers’ Day!

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