Sermons on Family Crisis:

What Should A Family Be?

Contributed by Glenn Narvaez on May 13, 2006

This topic talks about God’s original intention for every family

WHAT SHOULD A FAMILY BE? God’s Original Intention for the Family Genesis 1:26-28 Some definitions of a family … 1. The Birthplace of Creativity 2. A Formation Center for Human Relationships 3. A Shelter in the Time of Storm 4. F.A.M.I.L.Y.-Father And Mother I Love You 1. GOD STARTED THE ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 1:26-28

Denomination: Independent/Bible

How To Raise A Godly Family

Contributed by Ivan Casteel on Jun 25, 2004

Gaining lessons from John the Baptist’s Parents

HOW TO HAVE A GODLY FAMILY! By Ivan G. Casteel Matthew 11:11; Luke 1:5-16 Mt 11:11 Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. (KJV) Lu 1:5 There was in ...read more

Scripture: Luke 1:5-16

Denomination: Baptist

God's Manual For Family Living Series

Contributed by Sue Richard on May 14, 2003

Parents are instructed first in what they need to do before they can instruct their children in the home.

DEUT 6 GOD’S MANUAL FOR FAMILY LIVING Last Week Wesley gave you a glimpse of how God’s manual for family living from Deuteronomy 4 was relied on in his home. He told you how his family prayed together regularly both in the morning and before going to bed at night ...read more

Scripture: Deuteronomy 6:4-9

Denomination: Brethren

Schism With The Scribes And Factions With The Family

Contributed by Michael Bird on Jul 13, 2002

This sermon describes the opposition Jesus faced from both his own family and from the Scribes. It attempts to highlight how Christians today can face similar accounts of rejection by both the world and from family.

Schisms with the Scribes and Factions in the Family Introduction I would like set before you a couple of stories in order to illuminate the background to this passage. Scene 1: A Carpenter Shop in Nazareth The road for Sepphoris to Nazareth consisted mostly of rolling hillsides. It was a ...read more

Scripture: Mark 3:20-35

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

How To Protect Your Family Series

Contributed by Jonathan Russell on Jun 29, 2007

Examining the qualities of Noah that enabled him to protect his family from the flood

Noah possessed three qualities that enabled him to provide spiritual protection for his family. 1. Righteousness (6:9) A. He had personal righteousness (he himself lived a righteous life). B. He had public righteousness (he was righteous in the midst of an unrighteous society). C. He had pure ...read more

Denomination: Baptist

Understanding Our Spiritual Family Series

Contributed by Scott Chambers on Jul 16, 2007

A message from an expository series from the book of Galatians.

In reality there are only two ways to win a race. You can win by running faster than anyone else or by having everyone else quit before reaching the finish line. As we have traveled through the book of Galatians we have encountered a group of legalists known as the Judaizers. The legalists have a ...read more

Scripture: Galatians 6:1-10

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

The Ten Commandments – Family Matters Series

Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Sep 20, 2007

THE TEN COMMANDMENTS – Family Matters What is God’s purpose for the family? The Family Matters of Marriage: – the PURPOSE, Partnership  Pleasure  Procreation – the PRIORITY  Promise of Devotion  Persistent – PURIT

• Exodus 20:3-17 (NIV) [3] You shall have no other gods before me. [4] You shall not make for yourself an idol. . . [7] You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God. . . [8] Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. . . [12] Honor your father and your mother. . . [13] You shall not ...read more

Scripture: Exodus 20:3-17

Denomination: Assembly Of God

All In The Family – Kids Will Be. . . Series

Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Sep 20, 2007

ALL IN THE FAMILY – Kids will be. . . what will kids be when they are grown up? Will our kids still be kids, or will our kids have learned not just to be adults, but will they have learned to know God through a personal relationship with Jesus Christ?

• Proverbs 22:6 (NIV) Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it. INTRODUCTION: The top ten things teenagers hate to hear their parents say: 10. Pull your pants up. (What good will that do? They will just fall down again.) 9. When I was your age we did ...read more

Scripture: Proverbs 22:6

Denomination: Assembly Of God

All In The Family – Husbands And Wives Series

Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Sep 20, 2007

ALL IN THE FAMILY – Husbands and Wives - Surprise! Submission is for everybody! Husbands love your wives. Wives submit to your husbands. The mystery of the husband wife relationship.

• Ephesians 5:21-33 (NIV) [21] Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. [22] Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. [23] For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. [24] Now as the church submits to ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 5:21-33

Denomination: Assembly Of God

Touching Your Family And Friends Series

Contributed by Tom Shepard on Oct 2, 2007

This is the third sermon in a series of five to help my congregation become more outward focused. It is based on the church outreach program titled - "Outflow". 1. Things you can’t do. 2. Things you can do. 3. Leave results to God.

Touching Your Family And Friends – Overflowing Outreach God wants to give us an overflowing life – an abundant life. For the last two weeks we have talked about how God wants to fill you to overflowing. In John ten – ten it says: “I have come that they may have life and have it in abundance.” ...read more

Scripture: John 10:10

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Our Part In The Family Tree Series

Contributed by Pat Damiani on Jul 4, 2011

Matthew's genealogy of Jesus shows that all of us can serve Jesus in the present regardless of our past.

I think that most of us instinctively understand the importance of beginnings in our lives. As we embark on our journey through the life of Jesus, we’ll find that His beginnings had tremendous impact on his life here on earth and a significant influence on His ministry. So we’re going ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 1:1-17

Denomination: Baptist

The Nuclear Family Under Attack Series

Contributed by Keith Peters on Jul 9, 2011

Uses the analogy of nuclear fission to describe the attack on the family.

The Nuclear Family under attack If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?” Ps. 11 REFLECTION: Our God is a God of intense and intentional design. When we tinker or actually violate those designs, the effect is often catastrophic. In Psalm 11, David asked the same ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 11:1-7

Denomination: Baptist

Family Faith Quiet Times Series

Contributed by Dan Proctor on Mar 27, 2013

Every family needs an anchor of peace. That anchor is consistent family faith time.

Peacemakers of the Heart Family Faith Quiet Times Introduction: 1. Many believers live crazy, stressed-out lives and believe that it is normal. Yet we have learned that a life of stress is not how we were meant to live. 2. God’s Word is clear that it is God’s will for us to live lives ...read more

Scripture: Colossians 3:15

Denomination: Bible Church

“family Promises”

Contributed by George Yates on Apr 10, 2012

As we look at Jesus ancestors we see a heritage of Grace.

I. Genealogies can tell us a lot about our ancestors, sometimes about who we are and occasionally who our offspring will be A. I remember growing up and being told of one of my great greats whose name was John Pidcock (this is my fraternal grandmother’s maiden name) 1. Every year the ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 1:1-17

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

Marks Of A Biblical Church Family Series

Contributed by Mark Opperman on Dec 5, 2012

There are things that make a healthy church family and they go a long ways in removing human obstructions that keep people from seeing who Jesus really is! 5 marks of a Biblical Church family from the last half of Romans 15. Expectations of a church famil

Marks of a Biblical Church Family Romans 15:23-33 Intro: We like to refer to ourselves as a family here at CLC. That certainly isn’t unique, seeing that many groups with similar interests refer to themselves as a family. There are all kinds of families (small, large, mixed, nuclear, ...read more

Scripture: Romans 15:23-33

Denomination: Assembly Of God