Help Wanted, Dad. Ask For Calvin And Hobbes.
1 Kings 19:1-8
Sermon
by Lowell D. Streiker

1. What Do Daddies Do?

Six-year-old Calvin is talking to his stuffed Tiger Hobbes:  Calvin: Here's a box of crayons. I need some illustrations for a story I'm writing. You can draw something besides tigers, can't you? Hobbes: Sure, Leopards, pumas, ocelots....you name it. (Time passes and we find Calvin in bed with his stuffed tiger, ready to be tucked in by his father.) 

Calvin: Here Dad, read this story tonight. I wrote it and Hobbes illustrated it.

Dad:...Um. OK. (He reads aloud.) "The Dad Who Lived to Regret Being Mean to His Kid."

Hobbes: What are you pausing for. Keep reading.

Dad: Barney's dad was really bad. So Barney hatched a plan. When his dad said, "Eat your peas!" Barney shouted, "NO!" and ran. Barney tricked his mean ol' dad and locked him in the cellar. His mom never fo…

by Lowell D. Streiker