Our pastor didn't really lecture the father's this year. What he did was kinda neat. He's really getting into the audio-visual stuff (and we've got some vey talented people who do the video work). He lead in with different types of father's and then went into Michael Reagan's remark about the gift of the knowledge of Christ that his dad left with him. The sermon was more encouraging than lecturing.
I'm wondering if he got some response from when his wife delivered the Mothers Day sermon (I know that don't happen in the PCA). She started with a whole list of magazine covers talking about all the things wimmin are stressed with. Okay, good start.
Then she went into about a dozen things wimmin need to be doing...
I think our pastor's wife would be rather horrified if asked to give a sermon. And three of the four elders would have heart attacks. She'd give a sensible one, though! Six kids, homeschools 'em and they're turning out well... Dad keeps saying we should have an arranged marriage between their eldest girl and our second boy.
Moms are important. Kids know that right away. Sometimes it takes longer to figure out how important the dad is. And the parents who have to do both jobs, well, they have more than my respect.