Centennial Park Baptist Church - Sunday May 17th, 2009 – 10:30 am

 

BRICK BY BRICK

 

1.         Brick # 1 – STAYING at it

 

            The overwhelming emphasis of Proverbs is on verbal encouragement and           teaching.

 

            Proverbs 5:18 – “May your fountain be blessed and may you rejoice in the           wife of your youth.”

 

            Establish and Maintain permanent marriages

 

            * Establish?  Easy!

 

            * Maintain?  Tough!

 

The Breakers

 

            PERSONAL woundedness

 

            PERSONALITY differences

 

            PRESSURES of lifestyle, etc.

 

The Makers

 

            POSITIVE connections

 

            PERSEVERANCE

 

            PROTECTION - I Corinthians 10:12

 

Every great marriage is the result of genuine and sustained investment by both partners.

 

Brick # 2 – SHOWING Love

 

            Proverbs 17:6 – “Children’s children are a crown to the aged, and parents are     the pride of their children.”

 

            All too often, parents and children become adversaries

 

            Healthy, well-adjusted adults can almost always look back to one or both parents          who loved them irrationally.

 

Brick # 3 – SETTING and Enforcing Limits

 

            Proverbs 23: 13 – “Do not withhold discipline from a child.”  Why? 

 

            Proverbs 22:15 – “Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child.”

 

We must give our children:        Limits

                                                Boundaries

                                                Consequences

                                                Responsibilities

                                                Accountability

 

Brick # 4 – SEEING and Developing Giftedness

 

            Proverbs 22:6 – “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old                   he will not turn from it.”

 

            * If we help our children understand that there is a Saviour who paid the price for          their sin, usually children will claim that spiritual heritage as their own. 

 

            * Gradually drawing out of the spiritual abilities God has Given them

 

Brick # 5 – SEEKING Divine wisdom

 

            James 1:5 - If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives       generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him.

 

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