MEMORIES OF HOME

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MEMORIES OF HOME
A DIRGE OR A SONG?
Lk. 1516-20
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All Christian Parents Should Be Concerned about
the memories their children will have of home.

• Memories of his fathers home is what
• motivated the prodigal sons resolve
• to return to his father (Lk. 1516-20).

• The rich mans memories of wasted
• opportunities will haunt his mind for
• an eternity (Lk. 1625).

• Impressions made early in our lives,
• whether good or bad, will be powerful
• in shaping the lives of our children.

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• Memory tempers prosperity,
• mitigates adversity, controls youth,
• and delights old age (Lactantius)

WHAT WILL YOUR CHILDREN REMEMBER ABOUT HOME?
LactantiusAD 260 - 326
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• THAT YOU HAD
• GREAT FAITH
• IN GOD AND
• THE BIBLE?

• Children catch
• faith from
• parents at first.

• It is later their
• faith is both
• confirmed and
• strengthened
• by the Word
• (Rom. 1017).

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• Parents failing to trust God, and
• so demonstrate it in their lives,
• set their children up to do the same
• (Prov. 226).

• Solomon was able to catalogue the
• things taught him by his mother
• (Prov. 311-9).

• Will our children remember or
• care that we walked with the
• giants of faith who are chronicled
• in Hebrews 11?

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• WILL THEY REMEMBER OUR
• ATTENDANCE TO WORSHIP HABITS?

• The greatest present that we can
• give them is our presence in
• spiritual activities.

• The children observe our presence
• or absence. They will use our
• presence as encouragement to be
• present themselves our absence as
• a license to not be present as well.

• The greatest teacher of all is the
• example set before them.

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• Sunday Morning Christian is an
• oxymoron. Christianity is not
• seasonal or restricted by time or
• place.

• What kind of memories do we want
• our children to have of our emphasis
• upon being present and having them
• present for Bible classes and other
• services.

• Parents AND grandparents have a big
• obligation to demonstrate right living.

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Christian Homes Join Forces For
Upholding Righteousness and Saving Our Children!
Do We Invite And Expose Our Homes To Good People
And Positive Influences?
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• WILL THEY REMEMBER THAT WE WERE
• SPIRITUALLY MINDED PARENTS?

• Spirituality is something that is
• communicated to others by the order
• of our priorities.

• Can it be observed in every decision
• and action in us as parents?

• Which gets the
• attention, their
• secular or their
• spiritual training?
• (Eph. 64)

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• Simple practices give solid indication
• of depth and extent of our spirituality

• Expressing thanks before meals.

• Reading our Bibles daily.

• Spending time in earnest prayer,
• in which you pray for them and for
• self to be the right kind of parents.

• Choosing spiritual things instead
• of secular and material.

• What will they remember about our
• priorities in life?

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• CONCLUSION

• As our children remember us in the
• future, will they rise up and call us
• blessed as taught in Scripture (Prov.
• 3128).

• Soon they will be gone from home
• having only memories!

• Will those memories make them
• thankful and give them comfort and
• direction for their lives?

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A Piece of Clay
I took a piece of plastic clayAnd idly fashioned
it one day,And as my fingers pressed it
still,It moved and yielded to my will. I came
again when days were past --The bit of clay was
hard at lastThe form I gave it, it still
bore,But I could change that form no more. I
took a piece of living clayAnd gently formed it
day by day,
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And moulded with my power and artA young child's
soft and yielding heart.
I came again when years were gone --It was a man
I looked uponHe still that early impress
wore,And I could change him nevermore.

by anon
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What I have written here May not be
remembered long, But will your childrens
memories Be a dirge or a song?