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- Godly Families, Part 12
- Improve your communication, continued:
- Be kind and courteous, continued:
- God commands us to be king (Galatians 5:22; Ephesians 4:32). Shouldn’t we exercise this within our marriage?
- Dr. John Gottman is able to predict the likelihood of divorce in a marriage based on a 5:1 ratio of positive to negative interactions.
- “I’m sorry” – Luke 15:21
- “I forgive you” – Matthew 6:14-15
- “Please” – Acts 26:3; Nehemiah 5:10-11
- “Thank you” – Luke 17:16
- “Good job” – Proverbs 31:28-29
- “I love you” – Song of Solomon 1:7
- Communication techniques
- Write it out
- Allow time for a break
- Use the “speaker/listener” technique
- Are there any words or methods that are absolutely off-limits?
- “I told you so.”
- Cuss words – Ephesians 4:29
- Threats of divorce
- One-upping
- Name-calling
- Stonewalling / silent treatment
- Parents: radically commit to tender love and tough love
- God is the perfect example of tender love and tough love. We ought to try to imitate him.
- Employ a radical amount of tender love
- God expresses His love through action – John 3:16
- We should also express love through action – I John 3:16-18
- We need to recognize that it’s one thing to say we love our children, it’s another thing to show
- Parents ought to provide the basic necessities of life.
- II Corinthians 12:14
- Proverbs 31:15, 21, 23
- Titus 2:4-5; I Timothy 5:14
30 min - Service
- Hebrews 2:1
- John 13:3-16 – Jesus washes the feet of the disciples.
- What keeps us from service?
- We think we’re too important
- Philippians 2:6-7
- We think others aren’t important enough
- We don’t understand Jesus’ kingdom
- John 13:14
- Matthew 20:20-28 – Those who serve are the greatest in the kingdom!
- What will happen if I serve?
- I will be great in the kingdom
- Luke 22:24
- I will have the mind of Christ
- Philippians 2:3
- I will build up the body of Christ
- Romans 12:4-8
- I Peter 4:10
- Galatians 5:13-14
- Ephesians 4:16
- Where do I begin?
- Help meet physical needs
- Help meet spiritual needs
30 min - 30 min
- Confession
- Hebrews 2:1
- Two types of confession in the Bible
- Bold, courageous proclamation of one’s faith
- Confession of sin (Acts 19) – this is our topic for this lesson
- What is confession?
- Saying the same thing: agreeing with God’s diagnosis
- Proverbs 5:21
- II Samuel 12:13
- II Samuel 24:10 – David acknowledges his sin.
- Ezra 10:2
- Nehemiah 9:2
- Psalm 41
- To God
- I John 1:9
- I John 2:1
- Go one another
- James 5:13-16
- It takes my sin out of the dark and into the light.
- It brings accountability to others.
- It changes sin from a shameful secret into something we are working to change.
- Why is confession difficult?
- Lack of self-examination and humility.
- I John 1:5-1
- Luke 18:9
- Shame
- Psalm 32:1-5, 11 – Confession brings healing and relief from shame. It is sin that brings shame – not the confession of sin.
- Make church a country club instead of a hospital
- What now?
- Own your sin
- Be specific
- Find a confidant
- Be a confidant
- Trust God
- Proverbs 28:13
30 min - Prayer
- Hebrews 2:1
- Two modes of prayer
- Praying by assignment
- Praying by faith
- An invitation to ask
- Jesus never said for us to not bug God or limit how often we make requests.
- Matthew 7:7
- Luke 11:5-13 – Be persistent in prayer!
- Luke 18:1-8 – Do not lose heart in prayer.
- An opportunity to praise
- I Samuel 2:1-10 – Hannah’s prayer of praise for God
- See God’s hand in our lives
- Live with God
- See that God is up to more than attending to my requests
- A time to emote
- I Peter 5:6-7 – Cast your anxieties on God!
- Joshua 7:6-9
- I Samuel 1:10
- Psalms 88:1-5, 13-18
- An occasion to grow
- Our relationship with God will wither without good, meaningful communication.
30 min - Daily Bible Reading
- Hebrews 2:1
- Bible
- II Timothy 3:12-17
- Either the Bible is true or it is a hoax perpetrated by liars.
- Reading
- An essential element of spiritual growth
- I Peter 2:1-3
- Hebrews 5:12-14
- Romans 10:17
- Will inoculate against error
- Acts 17:11
- Will inform our discipleship
- James 1:19-25
- Daily
- Make a plan
- Have a concrete plan.
- Don’t create a plan that locks you in to drudgery.
- Stick with it
30 min - Worship
- Reminders
- The New Testament shows us the pattern of worship.
- Hebrews 10:23-25 – You want to assemble to worship as much as possible.
- Worship can be a much bigger concept than just assembling on Sunday.
- A picture of heavenly worship
- Revelation 4:1-5:14
- Worship means to recognize the worth of something.
- Pictures of vain worship
- Having the wrong object of worship
- Isaiah 44:9-20
- Substituting worship for obedience
- Isaiah 1:11-15
- Flaunting God’s commands for worship
- Leviticus 10:1-3 – Nadab and Abihu are killed for worshiping incorrectly
- We need worship
- Worship makes us look up from our navel.
- You become like what you worship.
30 min - Introducing the Disciplines
- Hebrews 2:1
- What the disciplines are
- Luke 6:40
- Ephesians 6:4
- I Timothy 4:6-8
- II Timothy 3:16
- The spiritual disciplines are God’s training tool to equip us to live like authentic and growing disciples.
- Titus 2:11
- Hebrews 5:14
- What the disciplines are not
- Magical incantations to get what we want
- Reasons to be self-righteous
- Matthew 6:5-6, 16-18
- Obligations of drudgery
- Why the disciplines matter
- The alternative is effortless drifting
- A proactive way of conquering sin
- Give us depth and wisdom
30 min - 1 Corinthians, Part 20
- I Corinthians 11:1-16, continued
- I Corinthians 11:15 – How long is long? I Corinthians 11:10 indicates that a woman should have a symbol of subjection on her head. This verse identifies her hair as this covering. Thus, the hair must be long enough to act as a covering and clearly distinguish woman from man.
30 min - Being Revived
- Introduction
- Philippians 4:10
- Psalms 85:6
- II Timothy 1:6
- What needs to be revived?
- Our first love
- Revelation 2:4-5
- Our doctrinal concern
- Revelation 2:13-15
- Our moral sensibility
- Revelation 2:20
- II Peter 2:7-8
- Our persistence
- Revelation 3:1-2
- Galatians 6:9-10 – Don’t be weary in well-doing!
- Our sense of values
- Revelation 3:17
- Matthew 16:24-26
- Isaiah 40:21-31
30 min
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