Ī father is a leader in the family, whom the children can look up to as role models.Īnd if it is evil in your eyes to serve the LORD, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. There you saw how the LORD your God carried you, as a father carries his son, all the way you went until you reached this place. The LORD your God, who is going before you, will fight for you, as he did for you in Egypt, before your very eyes, and in the desert. Then I said to you, "Do not be terrified do not be afraid of them. Ī father is the protector and fighter for his family. In the fear of the LORD one has strong confidence, and his children will have a refuge. When a father fears the Lord, the children can live in peace. Here are Bible verses about the role of fathers and husbands: This sacred duty of being a father is often times neglected, so that is why the Church and families should celebrate and the encourage the fathers as Dodd did after listening to a church sermon celebrating Mother's Day about one hundred years ago. Through sacrifice and love, our children can then come to feel and understand a glimpse of God's love for them. And Christians are called to live modeling the life of Jesus, so that those who see may also resemble by example to walk in the way of the Lord in spirit and truth. In this nation, children are in need of positive role models. He concluded that a father's love is indisputably as important to a child's emotional development as a mother's.įather's Day: How Epidemic of Absent Father Destroys Society Ronald Rohner examined the cases of more than 10,000 children around the world, and he discovered that a distant or cold and absent father damages a child for the rest of his life, often resulting in some kind of criminal activity or substance abuse. Forty-two percent grew up in a single-mother household, and 16 percent lived with neither parent. A study of 13,986 imprisoned women showed that more than half of them grew up without their father. While the majority of the children in America have fathers who remain an active part of their lives, 24 million children in America- one out of three -live in homes without fathers. In 1972, President Richard Nixon signed a law that made this a permanent national holiday to celebrate Father's Day. In the following year, a day was chosen for the first Father's Day celebration, June 17, 1910, proclaimed by the Spokane's mayor because it was the month of Smart's birth.īut it wasn't until 1966 did Lyndon Johnson made the first presidential proclamation honoring fathers designating the third Sunday in June as Father's Day. In 1909, while Dodd listened to a Mother's Day Bible sermon at church, she wanted a special day to honor her father, William Smart, a widowed Civil War veteran who was left to raise his six children on a farm.
The history of Father's Day originated from this nation's Christian heritage, where the idea of celebrating fathers was conceived slightly more than a century ago by Sonora Dodd of Spokane, Washington. For this special day to honor your father, dad-in-law, son-in-laws, and granddads this Father's Day, The Gospel Herald has listed out bible verses that may help you in your card writings and gift ideas (listed below). census? While it may seem natural to most that mothers are placed in a higher pedestal than fathers in this society, Father's Day is nevertheless the nation's fifth largest card-sending holiday.
Did you know that there are an estimated 70.1 million fathers across the nation according to a recent U.S.