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All right. Welcome. Hey, happy Father's Day once again to everyone here. So grateful for you,

dads who are in the room. Nate, when we started this series on Mother's Day, start off by saying, you know,

Mother's Day is the third highest attended Sunday in the year.

Father's Day is number 52 on the list, the lowest attended Sunday, but not here at Harris Creek. And so grateful, dads for you,

we're so thankful for you today. We're going to share a message that I hope will encourage and

challenge all the dads in the room, typically in a church setting. And I don't think we do this here.

I think we do a good job of this, but often dads just get criticized and beat up all the time. And my intention is not

to do that today. My intention is to encourage you in your role to challenge you to excel still more,

and I want you to walk away, just having a greater desire to be a better dad, to be a better

parent and what I share, but specifically going to speak to the dads.

I am a dad, the Dad, New Dad, Class of 2004, and so four sons. We have twins who are 18,

just graduated from Midway High School. Their names are Duncan and Drew. One headed to Baylor

University. I don't know if you've heard of that school before. Duncan said it there.

And then his twin brother Drew is going to Belmont and Nashville.

I've got a 15-year-old named Carson, who is a rising 10th grader at Midway High School.

And Lincoln is our baby, who's 13.

He's going to be an eighth grader at midway middle.

I absolutely love getting to be their dad.

That was my biggest mistake two weeks ago when I preached is not talking about how

incredible my kids are, how much I love being their dad, apart from being a follower of

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