A Father's Measure "Be perfect as your Heavenly Father is perfect." This is the measure of a father's character on this Father's Day. But wait! The word "perfect" is not what you think it means. Rather than moral perfection, the world means "wholeness" and "integrity." You can download the audio
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Pastor Nick Connolly
Grace United Methodist Church
The Fourth of Thirteen Sundays in Pentecost – June 21, 2009
Scripture: Matthew 5:43-48
The names of the Sundays are taken from
The Bible Through the Seasons: A Three-Year Journey with the Bible.
What makes God the measure for fathers are two characteristics lifted in the. These are "wholeness" in the sense of space offered to each of us that we might simply be; then there is "compassion," the word that Luke uses instead of Matthew's "perfect."
Nick shares how the clock on his father's bureau bears witness to these two criteria as measures for a father. As a reminder, each father received a tape measure!
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