Building Faith Families with Steve Demme

As a husband and father, I have more to say about what I have learned in 35 years of marriage and 34 years of being a dad. In this broadcast, I have some tips for ladies. I hope you will find them encouraging, biblically sound, and helpful.

God created and designed men to be husbands and fathers. But the only way we are able to fulfill our calling is bey falling in love afresh with God, laying down our lives for our families, serving them, and using the authority He has granted us to build them up. The best thing men can do for their family is love God and His word. Our individual relationship with God determines how well we build relationships with our family. When each member of the family is each rooted and grounded in Christ, then each are free to be in a healthy relationship with one another. I used to believe the ideal family was: Where each lives for the other and all love for Christ. I now am convinced that it is: Where each is loved by Christ, then we are enabled to love for the other.

God created each member of the family.

And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. Genesis 1:27

He sovereignly imbues each of us with value.

We are each a unique part of the body of Christ on earth, with gifts to supply to His body, here on earth.

Each member of the family is a temple of the Holy Spirit,

We are all different. God has shaped, crafted, and fashioned each of us with unique abilities and disabilities.

God designed the concept of marriage and family. He created this sacred institution. It is not only a good idea, it is a God idea.

Before Abraham was born, before a government had been formed, before Israel was called into being, and before the church was born from above, God created family.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. Genesis 2:24

This episode is a sampling of the person and work of the Holy Spirit as recorded in the book of Acts, with minimal commentary.

Acts 2:4 They were all filled with the Holy Spirit

Acts 4:8 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit,

Acts 4:31 When they had prayed, the place in which they were gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit

Acts 6:5 They chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit,

Acts 7:55 But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, looked up steadfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,

Acts 9:17 “Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus who appeared to you on the road by which you came has sent me so that you may regain your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”

Acts 11:24 He was a good man, and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith: and much people was added unto the Lord.

Acts 13:52 And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.

Acts 15:28 It seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things: