Mothers Day Legacy of Faith 2 Timothy 1:3-5. Sunday May 13, 2012 Pastor Mike Penninga

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1 Mothers Day Legacy of Faith 2 Timothy 1:3-5 Sunday May 13, 2012 Pastor Mike Penninga

2 Why did God make Mothers? She's the only one who knows where the Scotch tape is

3 Why did God make Mothers? She's the only one who knows where the Scotch tape is To help us out of there when we were getting born.

4 How did God make Mothers? He used dirt, just like for the rest of us.

5 How did God make mothers? He used dirt, just like for the rest of us. Magic, plus super-powers and a lot of stirring.

6 How did God make mothers? He used dirt, just like for the rest of us. Magic, plus super-powers and a lot of stirring. God made my mom just the same like he made me. He just used bigger parts.

7 What ingredients are Mothers made of? God makes mothers out of clouds and angel hair and everything nice in the world...and one dab of mean.

8 Why did God give you your Mother and not some other Mom? We're related. God knew she likes me a lot more than other people's moms like me.

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10 Like Dew Your Youth Growing Up With Your Teenagers A search of Scripture turns up one rather surprising truth: there are no truly exemplary families. Not a single family is portrayed in Scripture in such a way so as to evoke admiration in us...

11 Like Dew Your Youth Growing Up With Your Teenagers There are many family stories, there is considerable reference to family life, and there is sound counsel to guide the growth of families, but not a single model family for anyone to look up to in either awe or envy.

12 Families In The Bible Adam & Eve, Cain & Abel Noah & Sons Jacob & Esau Joseph & Brothers David & Wives / Kids Jesus & siblings

13 Like Dew Your Youth Growing Up With Your Teenagers The biblical material consistently portrays the family not as a Norman Rockwell group, beaming in gratitude around a Thanksgiving turkey, but as a series of broken relationships in need of redemption. Eugene Peterson

14 2 Timothy 1:3-5 Timothy, I thank God for you the God I serve with a clear conscience, just as my ancestors did. Night and day I constantly remember you in my prayers. I long to see you again, for I remember your tears as we parted. And I will be filled with joy when we are together again.

15 2 Timothy 1:3-5 I remember your genuine faith, for you share the faith that first filled your grandmother Lois and your mother, Eunice. And I know that same faith continues strong in you.

16 Your Greatest Legacy Your greatest legacy will be the faith breadcrumbs that you lay down for your kids to follow on their path to Jesus!

17 Acts 16:1 Paul went first to Derbe and then to Lystra, where there was a young disciple named Timothy. His mother was [Eunice] a Jewish believer, but his father was a Greek.

18 1 Corinthians 7:12-15, 16 If a Christian man has a wife who is not a believer and she is willing to continue living with him, he must not leave her. And if a Christian woman has a husband who is not a believer and he is willing to continue living with her, she must not leave him...

19 1 Corinthians 7:12-15, 16 If a Christian man has a wife who is not a believer and she is willing to continue living with him, he must not leave her. And if a Christian woman has a husband who is not a believer and he is willing to continue living with her, she must not leave him...

20 1 Corinthians 7:12-15, 16 For the Christian wife brings holiness to her marriage, and the Christian husband brings holiness to his marriage. Otherwise, your children would not be holy, but now they are holy...

21 1 Corinthians 7:12-15, 16 Don t you wives realize that your husbands might be saved because of you? And don t you husbands realize that your wives might be saved because of you?

22 1 Corinthians 11:1 Imitate me, just as I imitate Christ.

23 2 Timothy 1:5 I remember your genuine faith, for you share the faith that first filled your grandmother Lois and your mother, Eunice. And I know that same faith continues strong in you.

24 Faith Through the Generations You can not pass down your faith. You can simply plant seeds of faith.

25 Importance of Parental Models

26 Impact of Parents & Church Both Mom and Dad - 72% of their children remain faithful in attendance Only Dad 55% remain faithful Only Mom 15% percent remain faithful Neither 6% percent remain faithful

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28 Next Steps Prayer Front Pick Up Baby Bottle Fill & Return Fathers Day Meet Rolly Rangno Newcomers Corner Special Mothers Day Celebration Gym

29 Benediction May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. 2 Corinthians 13:14