Well, I have one final gift to give to you men, and that is a sermon. And, I do not intend to, to beat you up this Father's Day. In fact, the title of the message is encouragements for, for dads. I, this week, to an unusual degree, I've been relishing one of the perks of being a pastor.
And one of those perks is that you get to choose your own Father's Day sermon. And, in all seriousness, the week leading up to Father's Day, I asked myself, what sermon does Milton want to hear this, this Father's Day, and you might think because of that, that, if I allow that thought to give shape to the message that my Father's Day sermons tend to be very easy on the dads, but actually, it, it hasn't been that way because a lot of times I've really felt like I needed to be challenged or rebuked and I've been up here preaching to myself as much as to any other man. But I personally feel the need this year and in talking with some of our men, here at Cornerstone, I just, I feel the need to take our time that we have for the sermon time this morning to just minister encouragements to, to the dads. The truth is, our men do need encouragement.
I was reading a chapter from a book entitled Pastoral Leadership for Manhood and Womanhood. This chapter was, the, the author was a guy named HB London Jr. and he gave the following stats. He says 75% of men are not satisfied with themselves as fathers.
So more men than not are discouraged. About themselves as dads, 43% feel a deep sense of failure about their past as they look at the job they've done as a husband and as a dad. They feel a deep sense of failure, and what he's conveying there, it's not just that. 43% of men look back on their track record and say, I think I failed a few times....
