Here is a video that Wimp.com calls "The Father of the Decade" in honor of Patrick John Hughes, father of Patrick Henry Hughes (pictured above.) The keepers of this website could very well be right. This dad would certainly get my vote for such. But, according to Jesus, this father, despite his heightened powers and execution of his fatherly role, is yet "evil", in other words a fallen man who in this life still regularly falls short of God's glory (Romans 3:20). And this makes Jesus' point about "evil" earthly fathers especially glorious when he queries, "If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask him?" (Matthew 7:11). With this question Jesus invites us to consider the love, devotion and sacrifice of men like Patrick John Hughes and then to multiply it by a zillion or three in order to begin to fathom the depths of God's love for us, and His delight to fulfill the requests that we lay before Him in Jesus' name. Enjoy.
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