Father's Day 2020
June 17, 2020

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June 21st 2020 - Father’s Day

Fathers, do not embitter your children, or they will become discouraged. —Colossians 3:21

Fathers, do not provoke or irritate or exasperate your children [with demands that are trivial or unreasonable or humiliating or abusive; nor by favoritism or indifference; treat them tenderly with lovingkindness], so they will not lose heart and become discouraged or unmotivated [with their spirits broken]. —Amplified Bible Colossians 3:21

Godly fathers raise

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The opposite of being discouraged is being

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The opposite of being discouraged is being .
The opposite of being discouraged is being and .

8 We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about the troubles we experienced in the province of Asia. We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired of life itself. 9 Indeed, we felt we had received the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead. —2 Corinthians 1:8–9

Give us aid against the enemy, for human help is worthless. With God we will gain the victory, and he will trample down our enemies. —Psalm 60:11–12

The most important

that a father can do, for the sake of his children, is to be .

Ask not, what shall I teach my children, but rather ask how am I reflecting God… before my children?