HOW TO HAVE THE BEST FAMILY WEEKEND!
July 20 & 21, 2024 // Pastor Mike Berry
1. OUR GOD GIVEN JOB DESCRIPTION IS TO
“Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.”
Proverbs 22:6, ESV
“Lead me, Lord, in your righteousness because of my enemies— make your way straight before me.”
Psalm 5:8, NIV
“Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.”
Ephesians 4:29, NIV
2. TEACH AND TRAIN
“Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you.” Exodus 20:12, NIV
3. TEACH AND TRAIN
“Do not be misled: ‘Bad company corrupts good character.’”
1 Corinthians 15:33, NIV
4. TEACH AND TRAIN THE DANGERS OF
“Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery…”
Ephesians 5:18, NIV
5. TEACH AND TRAIN THE DANGERS OF
“Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never! Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.” But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with him in spirit. Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body.”
1 Corinthians 6:15–20, NIV
6. TEACH AND TRAIN THE DANGERS OF
“Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the Lord.”
Lamentations 3:40, NIV
7. TEACH AND TRAIN THE IMPORTANCE OF EXCELLING
“Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.”
Proverbs 29:18, KJV
8. TEACH AND TRAIN THE IMPORTANCE OF
“The integrity of the honest keeps them on track; the deviousness of crooks brings them to ruin.”
Proverbs 11:3, MSG
9. TEACH AND TRAIN THE IMPORTANCE OF GOD AS THE
“See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.”
Isaiah 43:19, NIV
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.”
Isaiah 55:8–9, NIV
Action Steps: How can you do a better job of training up, building up and leading up the next generation? How can you do a better job of showing honor and respect in your family? Where do you need to do a better job of leading by example in your life? How do you need to grow in boundaries with technology? How can you do a better job of making God the foundation of your family?