1. We welcome you today to our worship services!

2. Secrets Of Successful Families
Introduction
Most families are dysfunctional in some way. All have room for growth.

3. Secrets Of Successful Families
Introduction
Brief Overview of the home as God would have it:
One man for one woman for life (Gen. 2:18-24; Matt. 19:2-10)

4. Secrets Of Successful Families
Introduction
Brief Overview of the home as God would have it:
Wife is:
1) to receive honor ( 1 Pet. 3:7)
2) to be properly adorned (1 Pet. 3:3-6)
3) the “weaker vessel” (1 Pet. 3:7)
4) keeper at home (Titus 2:5)
5) to be in subjection (1 Pet. 3:1; Eph. 5:22)

5. Secrets Of Successful Families
Introduction
Brief Overview of the home as God would have it:
Husband is:
1) the primary provider (1 Tim. 5:8)
2) to love the wife as Christ loves His church (Eph. 5:25)
3) the spiritual leader of the family (Eph. 6:4)
4) to nourish and cherish his wife (Eph. 5:29)

6. Secrets Of Successful Families
Introduction
Brief Overview of the home as God would have it:
Both are to be sexually available to each other (1 Cor. 7:3-5)

7. Secrets Of Successful Families
Introduction
Brief Overview of the home as God would have it:
Children:
1) Obedient (Rom. 1:31; Eph. 6:1,2; Col. 3:20)
2) Avoid favoritism (Jacob and Esau)
3) Trained in ways of the Lord (Deut. 6:4-8; 11:19-21)
4) Honor father and mother (Eph. 6:1,2)

8. Secrets Of Successful Families
Introduction
Brief Overview of the home as God would have it:
Parenting
1) Provide love, nurture, caring and set positive examples
2) Discipline is done FOR the child not TO the child
3) Not all kids are the same (Eph. 6:4 and Col. 3:21)

9. Secrets Of Successful Families
Introduction
Brief Overview of the home as God would have it:
Roles reverse over time (1 Tim. 5:4)

11. 5 marriages
“I would give my entire fortune in exchange for a successful marriage.”

12. “You don’t get hugged by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame,” he says, “and you don’t have children with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I want what everybody else wants: to love and to be loved, and to have a family.”
Christie Brinkley
Billy Joel

13. Nick Stinnet
Is a professor of Human Development and Family Studies in the College of Human Environmental Sciences at the University of Alabama
“If you live in a strong family, please contact us. We know a lot about what makes families fail. We need to know more about what makes them succeed.”

14. Secrets of Strong Families

15. 6 Secrets of Strong Families
Commitment!

16. Jesus Said: (Mark 10:9 KJV) What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

17. (1 Cor 7:27 KJV) Art thou bound unto a wife. seek not to be loosed
(1 Cor 7:27 KJV) Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

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(1 Cor 7:27 KJV) Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

20. Strong families are determined to make it work;
Weak families sit back wondering if it’s going to work!

21. 6 Secrets of Strong Families
Commitment!
Time together!

22. (Gen 2:24 KJV) Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

23. (Eph 5:15 KJV) See then that ye walk circumspectly, (BE CAREFUL ) not as fools, but as wise,
(Eph 5:16 KJV) Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

24. Strong families make time to be together;
Strong families make time to be together; Weak families spend time on other things!

25. 6 Secrets of Strong Families
Commitment!
Time together!

26. When 1500 children were asked, “What do you think makes a happy family
When 1500 children were asked, “What do you think makes a happy family?,”they didn’t list “money,” “cars,” or “nice homes.” They simply answered: “Doing things together!”

27. 6 Secrets of Strong Families
Commitment!
Time together!
Appreciation!
(Eph 4:29 KJV) Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

28. Strong families build one another up; Weak families tear one another down.

29. Number-One Predictor of Divorce?
Disrespect!!!

30. “If I had to do it over again, I’d still marry you.”
“I couldn’t get you out of my mind today.”
“I will always love you.”
“I can always count on you.”
“I’m so proud to be married to you.”
“I’m sorry.”
“I was wrong.”
“You make every day brighter.”

31. Like a diamond
You Sparkle
You’re Strong and Enduring
You’re Priceless!
I like to take you with me when I leave the house
And show you off in public. You make me proud!
I like you next to my body!
They say, “Diamonds are forever.”
Honey, you are the diamond in my life!

32. One mother wrote saying, “Each night we go into the children’s bedrooms and give each a big hug and kiss. Then we say, ‘You are really good kids and we love you very much.We think it’s important to leave that message with them at the end of the day.”

33. Secrets of Strong Families
Commitment!
Time together!
Appreciation!
Communication!

34. 6 Secrets of Strong Families
(Prov 25:11 KJV) A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.

35. Secrets of Strong Families
Commitment!
Time together!
Appreciation!
Communication!
Spiritual faith!
(Psa 127:1 KJV) A Song of degrees for Solomon. Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.

36. —“People who attend church even once a month increase their chances of staying married. Religion provides couples with a shared sense of values, ideology and purpose in life.”

37. Secrets of Strong Families
Commitment!
Time together!
Appreciation!
Communication!
Spiritual faith!
Coping with crisis!

38. 6 Secrets of Strong Families
Commitment!
Time together!
Appreciation!
Communication!
Spiritual faith!
Coping with crisis!
“Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I shall return there.

39. 6 Secrets of Strong Families
Commitment!
Time together!
Appreciation!
Communication!
Spiritual faith!
Coping with crisis!
The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.” Job 1:21

40. NOW IS THE TIME Best time to get started is NOW
Best time to ask God for His help is NOW
Best way to start, is on your knees with an open heart, NOW

41. Change is a process. You will need ongoing help
Change is a process. You will need ongoing help. Please, let heaven and this church help you each step of your journey.