Fathers Day 2006

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Fathers Day 2006

• Pastor John Hatcher

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Will Rogers, Jr.

• Formidable political wit
• Actor
• Award hero
• Politician

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Will Rogers, Jr.

• Never slap a man who is chewing tobacco
• Never kick a cow chip on a hot day
• There are two theories to arguing with a woman
  and neither works
• Never miss a good chance to shut up
• Always drink upstream from the herd
• Letting the cat out of the bag is easier than
  putting it back in!

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1. A Fathers Instruction

• Eph 61-4 do not exasperate
• Col 320-21 do not embitter
• Can occur by parenting by reaction
• Rather father on purpose (training
  instruction)
• Prov 18-9

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1. A Fathers Instruction

• Prov 41-5
• Holistic its about life
• What we model we have to minimise the
  contradictions! Children have a hard time with
  hypocrisy

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2 A Fathers Discipline

• Defining Boundaries
• Theyre part of the human experience
• They ultimately keep US safe
• and those we come in contact with safe
• If we dont define it to our children society
  will

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2 A Fathers Discipline

• Prov 155-6
• Rejecting, but rejecting intentionally
• Prov 1324
• Responding with different forms of correction
• Consequences for behavior is a form of Heavenly
  behavior modification!
• Not just as a reaction but used as a boundary
• Apathy reaction forms of abuse
• Discipline is a form of love

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3 A Fathers Love

• Love is also holistic
• Love is touching / physical
• Love is verbal
• Prov 31-4
• I Tim 58