A CHOSEN FAMILY...
+ CAN START IN THE MOST UNLIKELY OF PLACES
+ LOVES WELL
+ BUILDS EACH OTHER UP

Am I closer to God because of this person?
Your chosen family matters

When I’s Collide:
You leave
You win and partner conforms
You compromise

Expectations create a debt/debtor relationship

A Christian marriage is a submission competition

Healthy couples
Put each other first
by going first
in an effort to be last

Marriage is meant to be the clearest picture of Christ’s love and sacrifice for you.

Confess: Take responsibility for turning your desires into expectations?

Ask: Where do you feel pressure to live up to my expectations?
Ask: What can I do to make our marriage richer?

1Reward: What’s rewarded is repeated

How do we honor our parents?
- By remembering the good and the sacrifice made for you.
- By being kind
- By becoming the person God created you to become
- By creating healthy boundaries

How do we train and instruct our kids?
- With scriptural truth
- With an understanding of what they need in each stage of life
- By example
- With hope

Tevah: life-preserver, life-saver

Take notice of who has supported you

Take responsibility for your own failures

Take hold of the purpose for which God created you

Before there can be a New Life, there has to be a death

Baptism is a burial

Baptism represents cleansing

Baptism is a bonding agent

Before there can be a New Life, there has to be a death

Baptism is a burial

Baptism represents cleansing

Baptism is a bonding agent

When things don’t add up, go where you find Jesus.

Never let go of Jesus’ words.

Hope rises with each new truth we discover and believe.

Do you believe Jesus rose from the dead?
Will you give him the Leadership of your life?

God allows us to make our own choices

The prodigal son left intentionally

Do you just want God to make your life better, or to make you better?

Salvation is a choice of reality, not quantity

The Father is always looking and he can see a long way.

The Father chooses to humiliate himself in order to spare his child from judgment.

There are two lost sons in this story, but one doesn’t know it.

Come home to the Father and join him in what he is doing.

The Father sent Jesus to bring his lost children home again.

The religious have a very narrow view of who God cares about.

Team religious? or Team Jesus?