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Building My Family
Contributed by Doug Johnston on Mar 5, 2001 (message contributor)
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1. The Importance Of Just A Few Years
Contributed on Mar 5, 2001
We must keep hoping in God’s help for us in the face of difficult odds, just as Moses’ mother did in her day.
Series: Building My Family Title: The Importance of Just a Few Years 5 And the daughter of Pharoah came... and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it. 6 ….She had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews’ children. 7 Then said his sister to ...read more
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2. I'll Give You...
Contributed on Mar 7, 2001
When we decide to love our families with the love 1 Corinthians 13 describes, many of our relationship problems fade.
I’ll Give You... 4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all ...read more
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3. A Family You Can't Wait To Come Home To - Part 2 - Wives
Contributed on Mar 7, 2001
God encourages wives to trust Him and love their husbands, even if their husbands haven’t learned how best to love God or them yet.
A Family You Can’t Wait to Come Home To (Part 2—Wives) The aged women likewise... teachers of good things; That they may teach the young women...to love their husbands... From Titus 2:3-4 Wives, likewise, be submissive to your own husbands, that even if some do not obey the word, they, ...read more
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4. A Family You Can't Wait To Come Home To - Part 1 - Husbands
Contributed on Mar 7, 2001
God surprises us by telling us that husbands, not wives, set the tone emotionally and spiritually for their homes.
A Family You Can’t Wait to Come Home To (Part 1—Husbands) Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered. 1 Peter 3:7 ...read more
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5. I Choose...
Contributed on Mar 7, 2001
Here are some suggestions how to give the "BEST" for our families.
I Choose... For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband. Ephesians 5:29, 33 We often have ...read more
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6. Where's Zebedee?
Contributed on Mar 7, 2001
Zebedee, as many fathers today, missed out on the best things he could find by being satisfied with what was good.
Where’s Zebedee? And straightway he [Jesus] called them: and they left their father Zebedee in the ship with the hired servants, and went after him. Mark 1:20 Where was Zebedee’s wife? Matthew 20:20; 27:56, “Then came to him the mother of Zebedee’s children with her sons, worshipping ...read more
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7. Struggling With Life
Contributed on Mar 7, 2001
Life’s struggles lessen as we listen to God ourselves and meet the needs God’s people experience.
Struggling With Setbacks Jonah refused God’s first request to follow Him. Instead, Jonah experienced: From the book of Jonah): Shock at God’s request (1:1-3) Anger/Guilt (1:2) Bargaining (1:3, 6, 12; 2:9 - "vow") Depression (1:12; 2:4, 5, 7) Hostility (4:1-3) Only temporary acceptance ...read more
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8. Three Vital Relationship Ingredients
Contributed on Mar 7, 2001
Building relationships with God and others is easier using God’s wisdom, understanding what’s most important in the relationship, and knowledge of God’s foundational truths.
Three Vital Relationship Ingredients Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established: And by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant riches Proverbs 24:3-4 Three Essential Ingredients to Restore a Relationship Wisdom Having a ...read more
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9. Forgiveness: The Hardest Choice
Contributed on Mar 14, 2001
We will fail to grow healthy relationships unless we purpose to forgive other’s mistakes and move beyond constantly reminding them of their errors.
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you. Ephesians 4:31-32 Forgiveness is a skill, a choice we ...read more