“See what great love the Father has lavished on us that we should be called children of God, and that is what we are.”
A Father's Day Sunday service centered on the theme 'Fathered by God.' The preacher urged listeners to know the Father's heart, trust His discipline, and receive His comfort by embracing repentance, baptism and the Holy Spirit. The service also emphasized wholehearted giving and a missions push, included communion, testimonies, a baptism, and community announcements.
“See what great love the Father has given us that we should be called children of God.”
Dr. Matthew McKellar preaches from 1 Peter on living as exiles—temporary residents shaped by a heavenly hope—using five cues (hope, holy, fear, love, long) and urging holiness, reverent fear, obedient love, and an appetite for God's Word; the service also included baptisms, camp reports, ministry announcements, and an invitation to trust Christ.
“See what great love the Father has given us, that we should become children of God.”
Dr. Matthew McKellar (preaching at First Baptist Dallas) unfolds 1 Peter's call to live as exiles: because Christians have an imperishable heavenly inheritance, we should live counterculturally now by setting our hope fully on Christ's future grace, pursuing holiness, conducting ourselves with reverent fear, loving one another earnestly, and craving the Word of God. The sermon includes pastoral application, testimonies from children's and student camps, and an invitation to trust Christ.
“Oh what manner of love the Father has lavished on us that we should be called children of God, and that is what we are.”
Jon Tyson preaches from Galatians 5:1, 13–15 that Christ calls believers to a gospel freedom that frees from condemnation and legalism and frees us to become who God made us to be — a freedom expressed by humble service to others and lived out by walking in the Spirit within Christian community.
