Finding Jesus in Unexpected Places // My Dad // Tim Lovell // June 15, 2025

Faith

Finding Jesus in Unexpected Places // My Dad

Deuteronomy 5:16 (NIV)

“Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God has commanded you, so that you may live long and that it may go well with you in the land the Lord your God is giving you.”

1. I had a father who taught me compassion and kindness.

Psalm 103:13 (NIV)

"As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear him."

2. My dad showed me what it meant to let the Lord shape you.

Proverbs 3:11-12 (NIV)

“My son, do not despise the Lord’s discipline, and do not resent his rebuke, because the Lord disciplines those he loves, as a father the son he delights in.”

3. My dad modeled disciplines he wanted his children to have…

Proverbs 22:6 (NKJV)

"Train up a child in the way they should go, and when they are old they will not depart from it…"

4. My dad taught me that Love pursues the rebel.

Matthew 18:12-14 (NIV)

"What do you think? If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go to look for the one that wandered off? And if he finds it, I tell you the truth, he is happier about that one sheep than about the ninety-nine that did not wander off. In the same way, your Father in heaven is not willing that any of these little ones should be lost.”

1 John 3:1 (NIV)
“See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!”

5. My dad taught me grace and joy in the midst of suffering.

Dementia and wheelchair bound and in a room in a care facility - “God has been so good to me.”