“The Church We Are Becoming”
Healthy Families are our Passion
February 16, 2025
Pastor Ryan Holt

Genesis 2:24 – That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.

Ephesians 5:25 – Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.

Psalm 127:3-5 – Children are a heritage from the Lord, offspring a reward from him.

1. Healthy

Matthew 7:24-25 – Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock.

2. Healthy Families Do

1 Corinthians 13 4-7 - 4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Proverbs 24:3-4 By wisdom a house is built, and through understanding it is established; 4 through knowledge its rooms are filled with rare and beautiful treasures.

3. Families Shape the

Deuteronomy 6:6-7 – These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

What we invest in our families today determines the kind of legacy we leave behind.

Psalm 78:4-7 – We will not hide them from their descendants; we will tell the next generation the praiseworthy deeds of the Lord… so the next generation would know them, even the children yet to be born, and they in turn would tell their children.

Our church is only as strong as the families within it.

Let’s be a church that fights for healthy, Christ-centered families.