Scripture: Colossians 3:12-21
Speaker: Rev. Fred Tham
Sermon Outline
Outline:
Introduction
1. PREPARE Your Children For Life
a. Relationships
b. Character
c. Values
2. PROTECT Your Children In Storms
a. Change
b. Failure
c. Rejection
d. Hear
e. Hug
f. Hope
g. Help
3. PLAY With Your Children For Fun
4. POINT Your Children To God
a. Marriage and Family is the Doing and the Display of God
b. Marriage and Family is Firmly Based on Grace
c. The Foundation is the Person and Work of Christ
d. Our Hope is in the Gospel
e. “Family” is Much Bigger Than We Think
Conclusion
Colossians 3:12-21 (RSV)
2 Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, and patience, 13 forbearing one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. 14 And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. 15 And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in the one body. And be thankful. 16 Let the word of Christ
dwell in you richly, teach and admonish one another in all wisdom, and sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with thankfulness in your hearts to God. 17 And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
Rules for Christian Households
18 Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. 19 Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them. 20 Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord. 21 Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.