Sermon Notes

Intimate Relationships According to God:
Family NOT According to "Home Improvement"

October 4, 2009 – Pastor Dave Scherrer

“The family.  We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.”  Erma Bombeck

“The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants.” William Shakespeare

1 Peter 3:8-13 (ESV)

Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind. Do not repay evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, bless, for to this you were called, that you may obtain a blessing. For

"Whoever desires to love life
   and see good days,
let him keep his tongue from evil
   and his lips from speaking deceit;
let him turn away from evil and do good;
   let him seek peace and pursue it.
For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous,
   and his ears are open to their prayer.
But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil."

Now who is there to harm you if you are zealous for what is good?

Notes:

The Purpose of Family According to God

Five Non-negotiables of Effective Parenting

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Being a Respectful Child

The Church as Family – related by Blood!