1. Building Blocks For A Better Church Part 3 – Godly Dads

2. Godly Dads “It is good to speak of God today.” Thank You for coming and worshiping.

3. Godly Dads Heart of love Ephesians 4:2KJV 2 With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;

4. Godly Dads Heart of love Lack of proper love shown can create problems

5. Godly Dads Heart of love Lack of proper love shown can create problems Showing love instills worth

6. Godly Dads Heart of love Lack of proper love shown can create problems Showing love instills worth Showing love mirrors God’s love for us

7. Godly Dads Holy Definition: We first think of godly. As holy we are in the highest sense belonging to God, and to Christians as consecrated to God's service, and in so far as they are conformed in all things to the will of God.

8. Godly Dads Holy Matthew 5:6KJV 6 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.

9. Godly Dads Holy Romans 6:16-19KJV 16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? 17 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you. 18 Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness. 19 I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.

10. Godly Dads Holy Our holiness, our righteousness, our godliness leads/points our children toward God

11. Godly Dads Holy Our holiness, our righteousness, our godliness leads/points our children toward God Our holiness shows in the way we live (for our children to see and imitate)

12. Godly Dads Holy Our holiness, our righteousness, our godliness leads/points our children toward God Our holiness shows in the way we live (for our children to see and imitate) Our holiness shows our children (and others) god is real in our lives

13. Godly Dads Hard working 1 Timothy 5:8KJV 8 But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel. Romans 12:11KJV 11 Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

14. Godly Dads Hard working Hard work brings results

15. Godly Dads Hard working Hard work brings results Hard work sets a pattern

16. Godly Dads Hard working Hard work brings results Hard work sets a pattern Hard work brings protection

17. Godly Dads Hard working Hard work brings results Hard work sets a pattern Hard work brings protection Hard work shows love

18. Godly Dads Humor in their attitudes and happiness in their actions

19. Godly Dads Humor in their attitudes and happiness in their actions God sends us happiness if we accept it Galatians 5:22-23KJV 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

20. Godly Dads Humor in their attitudes and happiness in their actions We as fathers can rob our children of their happiness Ephesians 6:4KJV 4 And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

21. Godly Dads Humor in their attitudes and happiness in their actions We need happiness to improve our lives Proverbs 17:22NKJV 22 A merry heart does good, like medicine, But a broken spirit dries the bones.

22. Godly Dads Humor in their attitudes and happiness in their actions Encouraging words encourage proper actions Acts 27:36KJV 36 Then were they all of good cheer, and they also took some meat. Acts 27:36NKJV 36 Then they were all encouraged, and also took food themselves.

23. Godly Dads Honest and full of integrity

24. Godly Dads Honest and full of integrity Proverbs 11:3KJV 3 The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness [crookedness] of transgressors shall destroy them.

25. Godly Dads Honest and full of integrity Proverbs 19:1KJV 1 Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool. NLT - Better to be poor and honest than to be dishonest and a fool.

26. Godly Dads Honest and full of integrity Proverbs 20:7 NASB 7 A righteous man who walks in his integrity— How blessed are his sons after him.

27. Godly Dads Honest and full of integrity Dishonesty will spread through your family like wildfire

28. Godly Dads Honest and full of integrity Dishonesty will spread through your family like wildfire Lack of integrity will cause heartache down the road

29. Godly Dads Honest and full of integrity Dishonesty will spread through your family like wildfire Lack of integrity will cause heartache down the road There are worse things than being poor (and honest)

30. Godly Dads Humility

31. Godly Dads Humility Humility can be difficult to grasp (because of our pride) Proverbs 11:2NKJV 2 When pride comes, then comes shame; But with the humble is wisdom.

32. Godly Dads Humility Humility helps us align with the Lord 1 Peter 5:5NKJV 5 Likewise you younger people, submit yourselves to your elders. Yes, all of you be submissive to one another, and be clothed with humility, for “God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble.”

33. Godly Dads Humility Humility is NOT weakness Job 22:29NKJV 29 When they cast you down, and you say, ‘Exaltation will come!’ Then He will save the humble person.

34. Godly Dads Humility Humility is the way of Jesus Philippians 2:5-8KJV 5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: 6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: 7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: 8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

35. Godly Dads Home life oriented

36. Godly Dads Home life oriented Too many Dads are too busy ELSEWHERE

37. Godly Dads Home life oriented Too many Dads are too busy ELSEWHERE Too many Dads value too many OTHER THINGS

38. Godly Dads Home life oriented Too many Dads are too busy ELSEWHERE Too many Dads value too many OTHER THINGS Too many Dads care too much about THEMSELVES

39. Godly Dads Heart of love Holy Hard working Humor in their attitudes and happiness in their actions Honest and full of integrity Humility Home life oriented

40. Godly Dads Heart of love Holy Hard working Humor in their attitudes and happiness in their actions Honest and full of integrity Humility Home life oriented

41. Godly Dads Heart of love Holy Hard working Humor in their attitudes and happiness in their actions Honest and full of integrity Humility Home life oriented

42. Godly Dads Heart of love Holy Hard working Humor in their attitudes and happiness in their actions Honest and full of integrity Humility Home life oriented

43. Godly Dads Heart of love Holy Hard working Humor in their attitudes and happiness in their actions Honest and full of integrity Humility Home life oriented

44. Godly Dads Heart of love Holy Hard working Humor in their attitudes and happiness in their actions Honest and full of integrity Humility Home life oriented

45. Godly Dads Heart of love Holy Hard working Humor in their attitudes and happiness in their actions Honest and full of integrity Humility Home life oriented

46. Godly Dads Be the Dads God and your children want you to be!