Pastor Carmen Shullo Sr.
June 18, 2023
Matthew 9:35-10:1
This Little Piggy
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Gist: David, has a past, but so does Father God. His past is boundless mercy and grace and David
remembers that and gives thanks for it. In Jesus beats the Father’s heart, slow to anger abounding in
love, and we should be thankful for that!
Takeaways: Psalm 103:8-12
8 The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
9 He will not always accuse, nor will he keep his anger forever.
10 He does not deal with us according to our sins, nor repay us according to our iniquities.
11 For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is his steadfast love towards those who fear
him; 12 as far as the east is from the west, so far he removes our transgressions from us.
Father's Day
Its first celebration was in the Spokane YMCA on June 19, 1910. Her father, the Civil War veteran
William Jackson Smart, was a single parent who raised his six children there. After hearing a sermon
about Anna Jarvis Mother Day at Central Methodist Episcopal Church in 1909, she told her pastor
that fathers should have a similar holiday honoring them.[3][5] Although she initially suggested June 5,
her father's birthday, the pastors of the Spokane Ministerial Alliance did not have enough time to
prepare their sermons, and the celebration was deferred to the third Sunday of June
The next year, a Spokane, Washington, woman named Sonora Smart Dodd, one of six children raised
by a widower, tried to establish an official equivalent to Mother’s Day for male parents. She went to local
churches, the YMCA, shopkeepers and government officials to drum up support for her idea, and she
was successful: Washington State celebrated the nation’s first statewide Father’s Day on June 19,
1910.
Slowly, the holiday spread. In 1916, President Wilson honored the day by using telegraph signals to
unfurl a flag in Spokane when he pressed a button in Washington, D.C. In 1924, President Calvin
Coolidge urged state governments to observe Father’s Day.
In other countries–especially in Europe and Latin America–fathers are honored on St. Joseph’s Day, a
traditional Catholic holiday that falls on March 19.
n 1972, in the middle of a hard-fought presidential re-election campaign, Richard Nixon signed a
proclamation making Father’s Day a federal holiday at last. Today, economists estimate that Americans
spend more than $1 billion each year on Father’s Day gifts.
