Sermons

  Family Ties: Build Soundly What Have We Learned? Opening Illustration: Good morning friends and church family. Welcome to week four of 7 week series entitled Family Ties. Over the last 4 weeks we have been examining how to have a Godly, Biblically based, and Christ honoring family. Brothers and sisters, I believe that God wants our homes to be places of peace in a world at war. He wants your home to be a shelter in the storm. Sadly, our homes are under attack. Here is a sobering statistic. Roughly every 36 seconds, there is a divorce somewhere in the United States of America. Young couples are being hit the hardest. The average age of divorcees is 30 years old. Back in the 1980’ and 90’s, it was said that roughly 50% of all marriages, both in and outside the church, would end in divorce. Recently I just read that stat has fallen to 39-40% but don’t celebrate to fast. The reason that divorce rates have fallen is because we have more people choosing to cohabitate, people are c...

  Family Ties: Build Structured Opening Illustration: Good morning brothers and sisters. Today we are continuing a series entitled “Family Ties”. Today may be your first day with us here at Eastern Shore Baptist Church. If so, let me catch you up on where we have been and what we have been talking about. First off, this series is all about helping your family discover the good plan that God has for your family. God wants to protect your family from this degrading culture and He wants to use your family to be a witness in this world. In week one, we talked about having strong families. If you remember we talked about checking your family’s foundation. I encouraged you to plant your family on the firm foundation of God’s Word. Last week we discussed what families that were sacred. We compared your family to a table with four legs. Each leg is important because if you remove one leg, the entire table falls. If you remember the four legs of your family were Biblical teaching, creati...