Celebrate• To observe (a day) or commemorate (an

event) with ceremonies or festivities.• To make known publicly, proclaim.• To praise widely or to present to

widespread and favorable public notice, as through newspapers or novels.

• To perform with appropriate rites and ceremonies.

Fathers are neededFatherless homes result in:• 90% of homeless & runaway youth.• 85% of children that show behavior

disorders.• 71% of high school dropouts.• 75% of adolescents in chemical abuse

centers.• 70% of youth in state-opened institutions.• 85% of all youth in prison.• 63% of youth suicides.

Celebrate Fathers• What we appreciate we celebrate.• What we celebrate gravitates.

Celebrate the good1 Thessalonians 5:11

1 Thessalonians 5:11

Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.

Manipulation vs. AffirmationGreed GratitudeInterested in me Interested in youBuilds dependence Builds relationship

Pray for fathersLeading is not easy

Fathers – Be Worth CelebratingIn God• Put God First

Mark 12:29-31• Seek God First

Matthew 6:33• Be Spirit Filled

Galatians 5:16-25

Mark 12:29-31

“The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.”

Matthew 6:33

But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

Galatians 5:16-25

So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature. For the sinful nature desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the sinful nature. They are in conflict with each other, so that you do not do what you want.

Galatians 5:16-25

But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under law. The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy;

Galatians 5:16-25

drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.

Galatians 5:16-25

Against such things there is no law. Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires. Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.

Fathers – Be Worth CelebratingLove Your Family• Protect

Hebrews 11:7a• Provide

1 Timothy 5:8• Manage

1 Timothy 3:4-5• Discipline

Hebrews 12:8

Hebrews 11:7a

By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in holy fear built an ark to save his family.

1 Timothy 5:8

If anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for his immediate family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

1 Timothy 3:4-5

He must manage his own family well and see that his children obey him with proper respect. (If anyone does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of God’s church?)

Hebrews 12:8

If you are not disciplined (and everyone undergoes discipline), then you are illegitimate children and not true sons.

Fathers – Be Worth CelebratingLove Your Family• Don’t overwhelm

Ephesians 6:4• Love

1 Corinthians 13:4-7• Love your wife

Ephesians 5:25-28

Ephesians 6:4

Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.

1 Corinthians 13:4-7

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Ephesians 5:25-28

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church,

Ephesians 5:25-28

without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

Fathers – Be Worth CelebratingWork Hard

Proverbs 14:23

Serve SelflesslyJohn 13:1-17

Give GenerouslyLuke 14:12-14

Proverbs 14:23

All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty.

John 13:1-17

It was just before the Passover Feast. Jesus knew that the time had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he now showed them the full extent of his love.

John 13:1-17

The evening meal was being served, and the devil had already prompted Judas Iscariot, son of Simon, to betray Jesus. Jesus knew that the Father had put all things under his power, and that he had come from God and was returning to God;

John 13:1-17

so he got up from the meal, took off his outer clothing, and wrapped a towel around his waist. After that, he poured water into a basin and began to wash his disciples’ feet, drying them with the towel that was wrapped around him.

John 13:1-17

He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, “Lord, are you going to wash my feet?” Jesus replied, “You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand.” “No,” said Peter, “you shall never wash my feet.”Jesus answered, “Unless I wash you, you have no part with me.”

John 13:1-17

“Then, Lord,” Simon Peter replied, “not just my feet but my hands and my head as well!” Jesus answered, “A person who has had a bath needs only to wash his feet; his whole body is clean. And you are clean, though not every one of you.”

John 13:1-17

For he knew who was going to betray him, and that was why he said not every one was clean. When he had finished washing their feet, he put on his clothes and returned to his place. “Do you understand what I have done for you?” he asked them.

John 13:1-17

“You call me ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord,’ and rightly so, for that is what I am. Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet. I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you.

John 13:1-17

I tell you the truth, no servant is greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him. Now that you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.

Luke 14:12-14

Then Jesus said to his host, “When you give a luncheon or dinner, do not invite your friends, your brothers or relatives, or your rich neighbors; if you do, they may invite you back and so you will be repaid.

Luke 14:12-14

But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind,

and you will be blessed. Although they cannot repay you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”

How am I supposed to do this?• Depend on God

2 Timothy 1:7• Start Today

2 Corinthians 5:17

2 Timothy 1:7

For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline.

2 Corinthians 5:17

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!