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Parent-Child Relationships
by Frank Pollard
In the last verse of II Samuel 18 we read the heartbroken cry of King David for his lost son. It happened a long time ago, yet these words are tragically up-to-date. They are the words of a careless parent: "O my son! My son, Absalom! Absalom, my son! If only I had died in your place, my son! Absalom, my son!" David had great family problems. Especially tragic were his relation- ships with his children. It probably all began when this man "after God's own heart" committed his blackest sin. You remember. While his army was in the field, David stayed behind in Jerusalem. From his rooftop he saw a beautiful woman bathing...
How to Lead Family Devotions (6 of 35)
by John Barnett
How to Lead Our Homes to God Through the Family Alter - This evening we are taking a look at our owner's manual. You see we were bought with a price, we are no longer our own. The Owner of your life and my life has written out just what He expects from each of us. He also has included instructions that keep us running in tip top condition - FOREVER. Have you looked at your Bible that way this week? - It is the exact and perfect and errorless guide to maintenance (how to stay victorious) - fuel needs (how to grow by eating spiritually) - warranty questions (assurance of salvation) and so on. There is nothing more vital nor...
The Functioning Family
by Nelson Price
JESUS CHRIST emphasized and elevated the institution of marriage by asserting it to be a permanent relationship. It is the basis for family living. In a day when family life is rapidly deteriorating somebody needs to speak a good word for the family. That's my intent. Dr. Ernest Gordon, Dean of Chapel at Princeton University ended one of his books with this remark: "In the wild seas of violence that characterizes our time we are in deepest need of islands of sanity, or harbors of humanity, in which the art of being human may be learned." Long before the dean made his observation our Lord established such a haven. It is called...
God's Formula for the Family
by Jerry Vines
God has a very interesting kind of mathematics in this passage. The Lord says that in marriage one plus one equals one. He said you take a man and you take a woman and the two become one. There in that little formula which God has given is the formula for success in a marital relationship. Now if we are to build the kind of homes we ought to build, I believe we must discover the bible principles which God has given to us in his word. This morning I dealt with some of the problems and some of the difficulties of the home. I talked a little bit about some of the attacks upon the home. Some of the influences of the home that...
The Essentials for a Happy Family Part 2
by Ernest Easley
We are nearing the end of our study of the book of 1st Thessalonians! Tonight we're in chapter 5 picking up where we left off last time together in verse 12 thinking about The Essentials for a Happy Family. Now keep in mind that the church is more like a family than it is a business. Now there is a business side to the church, but in function, it's more like a family! And God wants His family happy because a happy family can accomplish more for God than an unhappy family. Now I'm not saying we've got to compromise our beliefs in order to get along with somebody. We're not going to compromise one iota of the Word of God to get...
The FUNctional Family (2 of 5)
by Jeff Schreve
If you have your Bible, please turn to Ephesians chapter 4. I want to talk today about "The FUNctional Family." Now the word dysfunctional is one that we hear a lot, dysfunctional is an adjective that means "not operating normally or properly." It means "deviating from the norm in a way that's regarded as bad." Dysfunctional is a term that's so often attached to family. We talk about the dysfunctional family. You don't hear much about the functional family, but you hear a lot about the dysfunctional family. I ran across this definition for the dysfunctional family. It says, "A dysfunctional family is one in which conflict...
Parenting 101
by James Merritt
There was a young couple who had just purchased brand new appliances for their house, and they decided to give their old refrigerator to their parents. Since they lived many miles apart, they just shipped the refrigerator to their parents. A few days later the phone rang, her mother said, ''Honey, we want to send you a check for the refrigerator.'' The daughter said, ''No, Mom, it's a gift. We want you to have it.'' The mother said, ''But you could have sold it and made money.'' The daughter said, ''Look, Mom, just consider it as repayment for all those days that you took care of me when I was at home.'' After a slight...
Flexible Parenting (2 of 6)
by David Cawston
We must do so by not to following the destructive patterns of the world around us. 2 Peter 1:12-13 TLB 12 I plan to keep on reminding you of these things even though you already know them and are really getting along quite well! Patenting is not a rigid science but rather a dynamic process that requires flexibility and wisdom. The reason that families grow close to one another is not because of the genetically relationship of parents, - nor the rigidity of rules - but because of the establishment of principles - and the development of a culture - and the commitment to stay flexible. After all the goal of all parenting is preparing...
Counter Culture Parenting (1 of 5)
by Fred Lowery
Sometimes I wish that I could be something other than a Baptist for a few minutes and shout. We are doing a series on parenting because we have partnered with the young parents in this church to try to help you raising spiritual champions. We want to help you with your marriage. We want to help your parenting skills. We want to help you in the financial area of your life so that you can raise these children to be spiritual champions. I want you to be in every one of these services because you need to hear. Well, let me just ask you, how many of you have children, let me see your hands? And keep your hands up for a minute. Those...
Father Knows Best - Parenting (5 of 6)
by Jim Henry
This year, six-million Americans are going to take part in the greatest event of their lives. I mean, perhaps the most life-changing event outside of conversion that ever happens to a person. Six million Americans! It will be more important than the way they vote. It will be more important than any art work they may create. It will be more important than any space trip they may take. It will be more important than any technological problem that they may solve. It will be more historically important than any medical discovery that they may make. Do you know what that is? Six million Americans this year will become parents! And that is...
Surviving Parenting (3 of 4)
by Stan Coffey
Moses had instructions for God's people concerning their home and family. What a challenge it is for me to speak on this important subject that all of us need to hear something about, because you either have children or grandchildren, or you have nieces or nephews, or you know children as they run around here at the church. All of us have children who cross our path. We can all be a part of that parenting process. These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children; talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road and when you lie down and...
Wisdom For Parenting (1 of 12)
by Ernest Easley
We are beginning a new summer series tonight under the heading of Got Wisdom? Now if you are in need of knowledge . . . the library will help you. But if it is wisdom you are needing . . . the library may get you started... but you're going to need more than the library! For you see... real wisdom . . . practical wisdom . . . life-changing wisdom comes not from the local library but from the Living Lord! And how we need godly, practical, helpful wisdom! Well... in the Bible... God has given us a book for wisdom. It is found right in the middle of your Bible. And during the next several Sunday nights... we're going to learn how to get what...
Get an A+ in Parenting (3 of 4)
by Fred Lowery
We're talking about parenting, parenting on purpose. It is difficult to be a good person, could I get a witness. It is even more difficult to be a good husband or a good wife. I think it is most difficult being a good parent. It's one of life's toughest assignments. In fact parenting is so difficult that if you casual about it, you're not going to be a good parent. You can't take a casual approach to parenting. We've got to be proactive, twenty four, seven, three hundred and sixty five days a year. We've got to pour our lives into our children. Get into their heads, get into their hearts. Establish that emotional connection, that intimate...
The Challenge of Parenting (5 of 5)
by Jeff Schreve
I don't know about you, but I like to do puzzles. I like to get the paper in the morning and do the Jumble and the Crypto-quote and the Crossword puzzle. I like word puzzles. Debbie, she likes number puzzles. Well, she has turned me on recently to the Sudoku puzzle. It's numbers 1 through 9. And you have to figure out what number goes in the right spot, one through 9. Now it can be pretty hard, especially if you're not good with numbers. But, you know, the thing about puzzles, the reason that many of us like to do them, they're a challenge. And you look at that empty Crossword puzzle, or whatever it might be, and...
Parenting By God (4 of 5)
by Kerry Shook
Somebody said, "If men are from Mars and women are from Venus, then children must be from another universe altogether." I know many parents who love their kids deeply feel that way about them at times, and many kids who love their parents deeply feel at times like their parents are from another planet. Children and parents definitely live in two different worlds, and as children become teenagers, many times these two worlds collide. Now just as the song a moment ago said, both worlds want to understand each other...both worlds want to bridge this gap...but, the question is, "How?" Now, I don't stand before you as a parenting...
The Gospel Centered Home: Parenting (16 of 21)
by Zach Terry
Today we will give you a lot of nuts and bolts, so I encourage you to write this down. Pen, pencil, lipstick or mascara. Spear these thoughts with the point of your pen. Someone said, the poorest ink is greater than the best memory. CONTEXT: When the Gospel came to Ephesus a revolution came with it. It was said of the Apostles, "These men are turning the world upside down" well in fact they were turning it right side up, but this is the nature of the Gospel. It is a revolutionary notion. MARRIAGE WAS REVOLUTIONIZED Marriage in the Ephesian culture was a very flippant thing. - Wives were treated like a combination of...
In the Family
by David Cawston
God created certain institutions. The First one was the family. Yet Jesus taught that His coming would break up the traditional family. Matt 10:34-36 34 ''Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. 35 For I have come to turn '''a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law-- 36 a man's enemies will be the members of his own household.'(NIV) Instead God would create a new family, the family of God! Matt 12:47-50 47 Someone told him, ''Your mother and brothers are standing outside, wanting to...
Responsibilities in the Routines of Family - Part 3 (21 of 44)
by Patrick Edwards
We continue, this morning, to unpack Paul's admonition to ''look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise making the best use of the time, because the days are evil.'' It's such a simple and ordinary command given to the Christian, take advantage of every opportunity and every sphere of life to speak light into the darkness. It's so simple! And yet we struggle so much to actually do it! Teresa and I returned from Wales on a Tuesday evening and by Wednesday morning we were at the pediatrician with two kids sick with strep throat and both with double ear infections. As we sat in the exam room waiting I remember saying...
Survival For The Family
by Adrian Rogers
Now, would you open your Bibles please to First Corinthians, the last several verses in chapter six and then on into chapter seven. First Corinthians chapter six and verse nineteen. We're thinking today on this subject, SURVIVAL FOR THE FAMILY. "What? Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you whom ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price, therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit which are God's. Now concerning the things about which ye wrote unto me, it is good for a man not to touch a woman. Nevertheless to avoid fornication, let every...
Priorities for the Family
by Zach Terry
The pastor was visiting the 4th grade Sunday School class to talk about marriage as part of the lesson. He asked the class, ''What does the Bible say about marriage?'' Immediately, one little boy replied, `Father forgive them, for they know not what they do.' - How true that so often is. God commanded our first parents to be fruitful and multiply, to fill the earth and subdue it. But don't you imagine that if they knew what they were getting into, they might be tempted to disobey? - If the knew the pain that they would experience as their first born murdered their second born, do you think they would have had kids? - If they knew...
