Themed sermons for Holidays: Fathers Day

[ALAYMAN]

Congregants, do you like to hear themed messages that match up to the holiday?

Preachers, are you preaching a message about fathers this Sunday, and if so, what is your text?

 

[Just Ben]

I am preaching on Joseph, the man God chose to raise Jesus as a father. We usually only hear of him at Christmas, but I want to look at his qualities as a father: he found favor with God, he was a good man, he was a faithful man, he was an obedient man, he was a man of faith, he fulfilled God's purpose for his life. My main text will be Matthew 1:18-23. The subject is "The most honored father." These are the general thoughts to be developed further.

 

[ALAYMAN]

I am preaching on Joseph, the man God chose to raise Jesus as a father. We usually only hear of him at Christmas, but I want to look at his qualities as a father: he found favor with God, he was a good man, he was a faithful man, he was an obedient man, he was a man of faith, he fulfilled God's purpose for his life. My main text will be Matthew 1:18-23. The subject is "The most honored father." These are the general thoughts to be developed further.

Thanks for giving an answer. 

Please don't take this the wrong way.  I appreciate very much the outline you have given above, and see the merit of it in regards to making application for fathers today, but (ain't there always one of those? ) shouldn't a gospel message have its center in honoring Christ/God, and not ultimately earthly fathers?  I hope I worded that right, and didn't mis-characterize your sermon.  I struggle with the concept of "moralizing", where we place too much emphasis on the application side of the sermon equation, and don't focus enough on what Christ has already done (and is doing) in the gospel for us.  Does that make sense?

 

[16KJV11]

I am preaching on Joseph, the man God chose to raise Jesus as a father. We usually only hear of him at Christmas, but I want to look at his qualities as a father: he found favor with God, he was a good man, he was a faithful man, he was an obedient man, he was a man of faith, he fulfilled God's purpose for his life. My main text will be Matthew 1:18-23. The subject is "The most honored father." These are the general thoughts to be developed further.

Thanks for giving an answer. 

Please don't take this the wrong way.  I appreciate very much the outline you have given above, and see the merit of it in regards to making application for fathers today, but (ain't there always one of those? ) shouldn't a gospel message have its center in honoring Christ/God, and not ultimately earthly fathers?  I hope I worded that right, and didn't mis-characterize your sermon.  I struggle with the concept of "moralizing", where we place too much emphasis on the application side of the sermon equation, and don't focus enough on what Christ has already done (and is doing) in the gospel for us.  Does that make sense?

I think there is room for both.
But really and truly, there is a dearth in godly father's in our nation and it never hurts to 'remind' us dads about true biblical leadership and servanthood.

 

[Mathew Ward]

I'm preaching on "A husband's Love"

Ephesians 5:25-27 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

1. An Understanding Love

Ephesians 3:14-19 For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.

2. An Incredible Love

Romans 5:3-5 And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; And patience, experience; and experience, hope: And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.

3. An Inseparable Love

Romans 8:35-39 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

4. An Unconditional Love

1 John 4:9-10 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.