The Fourth Sunday after Pentecost

This sermon for the Fourth Sunday after Pentecost (Father's Day) explores fatherhood through the lens of Abraham's covenant with God, emphasizing that true fatherhood requires responsibility, faithfulness, and visionary leadership. Drawing from Genesis 21:8-21, where Abraham honored Sarah's request to send Hagar and Ishmael away despite personal distress, the sermon teaches that covenant relationships demand honoring obligations over personal feelings. The speaker connects this to modern fatherhood, noting that fathers must be role models who provide vision and guidance, as Proverbs 29:18 states 'where there is no vision, the people perish.' The sermon concludes that fatherhood is about character and involves taking up one's cross to follow Christ, with those who lose their life for Christ's sake finding true life.