2. Welcome To Pastor Garry Clark’s PowerPoint presentation from the May 20 th sermon: Hallmark: Kid Moments! Welcome To Pastor Garry Clark’s PowerPoint presentation from the May 20 th sermon: Hallmark: Kid Moments! Information on ordering a DVD copy of this sermon will be available at the end of this presentation

6. What Does The Word “Hallmark” Mean? An official mark or stamp indicating a standard of purity It is used in marking gold or silver by goldsmiths in London It is used to mark an article, indicating it’s origin, authenticity and quality It’s a stamp or imprint signifying quality, excellence and accuracy

7. How Can We Mark Our Children 99.999% Fine?

8. Valued Quality An Original Excellent How Can We Let Them Know That They Are…

9. Parents, Listen Up! Nobody can love your child like you can!

10. Parents, Listen Up! Nobody can care like you can!

11. Parents, Listen Up! Nobody can connect like you can!

12. Parents, Listen Up! Nobody can invest like you can!

13. Parents, Listen Up! Nobody can “Hallmark” them like you can!

14. It is your responsibility! It is the greatest opportunity in your life! To “Hallmark” your child for the glory of God is the Will of God for your life! It is your responsibility! It is the greatest opportunity in your life! To “Hallmark” your child for the glory of God is the Will of God for your life!

15. Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

16. We Often Think Of This Verse As Saying… Raise your kid as God fearing, Church going kids Have them attempt Sunday School, VBS, Church Camps, etc. Always make them carry their Bible Make sure they know the 10 Commandments Get’em saved as early as possible Make them say their prayers before they go to bed and before they eat

17. We Often Think Of This Verse As Saying… Most likely they will sow some wild oats and even rebel, but when they are older (maybe even really old) they’ll come back to Jesus Christ…

18. We Often Think Of This Verse As Saying… “…but only if you raised them right!!!”

19. Is that what this verse is really saying? Does that bring you much comfort and hope? IT DOESN’T ME! Is that what this verse is really saying? Does that bring you much comfort and hope? IT DOESN’T ME!

21. Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

22. Let’s take a look at this verse, breaking it down to an expanded Hebrew translation…

23. “Cultivate a thirst, initiate a hunger, create an appetite for spiritual things in the lives of your children of any age, as long as they are living under your roof...”

24. “…And do it in the way they are bent, disciplining the disobedience and the evil, while affirming and encouraging the good, the artistic and the beautiful…”

25. “…As children begin to grow into adults, their paths will be aimed directly toward the Lord, and they will continue to walk in His Sovereignty.”

26. This Proverb is not saying if you do “X” I will do “Y”

27. Raising kids is not an exact science

28. This proverb is a principle for living

29. Unfortunately, as long as we live in a sinful world, our best efforts are sometimes met with failure!

31. 3 Ways To Hallmark Your Kids Remember this: “You don’t become a goldsmith through wand waving!” IT TAKES WORK! Remember this: “You don’t become a goldsmith through wand waving!” IT TAKES WORK!

32. 3 Ways To Hallmark Your Kids Knowledge Knowledge YOU NEED TO KNOW YOUR KIDS To do this, you need to spend time with them. Time spent with your kids says: “I Matter To Mom & Dad!”

33. 3 Ways To Hallmark Your Kids Knowledge YOU NEED TO KNOW THE WORD OF GOD To do this, you need to spend time in the Word.

34. 3 Ways To Hallmark Your Kids Knowledge YOU NEED TO KNOW THE WORD OF GOD Psalm 119:33-35 33 Teach me, O LORD, the way of thy statutes; and I shall keep it unto the end.

35. 3 Ways To Hallmark Your Kids Knowledge YOU NEED TO KNOW THE WORD OF GOD Psalm 119:33-35 34 Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.

36. 3 Ways To Hallmark Your Kids Knowledge YOU NEED TO KNOW THE WORD OF GOD Psalm 119:33-35 35 Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight.

37. 3 Ways To Hallmark Your Kids Knowledge YOU NEED TO KNOW THE WORD OF GOD Psalm 119:33-35 105 Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.

38. 3 Ways To Hallmark Your Kids Knowledge YOU NEED TO KNOW THE WORD OF GOD Psalm 119:130 130 The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.

39. 3 Ways To Hallmark Your Kids Knowledge YOU NEED TO KNOW THE WORD OF GOD Time spent in the Word of God says: “I matter to God and He matters to me!”

40. 3 Ways To Hallmark Your Kids Knowledge YOU NEED TO SHARE WHAT YOU KNOW WITH YOUR KIDS Deuteronomy 6:5-7 5 And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

41. 3 Ways To Hallmark Your Kids Knowledge YOU NEED TO SHARE WHAT YOU KNOW WITH YOUR KIDS Deuteronomy 6:5-7 6 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:

42. 3 Ways To Hallmark Your Kids Knowledge YOU NEED TO SHARE WHAT YOU KNOW WITH YOUR KIDS Deuteronomy 6:5-7 7 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

44. 3 Ways To Hallmark Your Kids Discipline Discipline YOU NEED TO DISCIPLINE YOUR KIDS A child feels loved when their parents take time to correct them

45. 3 Ways To Hallmark Your Kids Discipline YOU NEED TO DISCIPLINE YOUR KIDS Proverbs 13:24 He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

46. 3 Ways To Hallmark Your Kids Discipline YOU NEED TO DISCIPLINE YOUR KIDS Your children need to hear: “You’re not going to do this or that!”

47. 3 Ways To Hallmark Your Kids Discipline YOU NEED TO DISCIPLINE YOUR KIDS Your children need to hear: “You’re not going to get away with doing what you did!”

48. 3 Ways To Hallmark Your Kids Discipline YOU NEED TO DISCIPLINE YOUR KIDS Your children need to hear: “It ain’t happening!”

49. 3 Ways To Hallmark Your Kids Discipline YOU NEED TO DISCIPLINE YOUR KIDS Proverbs 22:15 Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

50. 3 Ways To Hallmark Your Kids Discipline YOU NEED TO DISCIPLINE YOUR KIDS Without discipline, your child will be left to drift

51. 3 Ways To Hallmark Your Kids Discipline YOU NEED TO DISCIPLINE YOUR KIDS He will not have aim or direction, and will feel disconnected

52. 3 Ways To Hallmark Your Kids Discipline YOU NEED TO DISCIPLINE YOUR KIDS Proverbs 23:13-14 13 Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.

53. 3 Ways To Hallmark Your Kids Discipline YOU NEED TO DISCIPLINE YOUR KIDS Proverbs 23:13-14 14 Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.

54. 3 Ways To Hallmark Your Kids Discipline BUT WE’RE NOT TALKING ABOUT ABUSE!

55. 3 Ways To Hallmark Your Kids Discipline Ephesians 6:4 And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

56. 3 Ways To Hallmark Your Kids Discipline Abuse Leaves HELL-MARKS!

57. 3 Ways To Hallmark Your Kids Discipline Discipline Leaves HALLMARKS!

58. 3 Ways To Hallmark Your Kids Discipline Abuse is Cruel Discipline Corrects Abuse is Cruel Discipline Corrects

59. 3 Ways To Hallmark Your Kids Discipline Abuse is Unfair Discipline is Fair Abuse is Unfair Discipline is Fair

60. 3 Ways To Hallmark Your Kids Discipline Abuse is Too Harsh Discipline is Reasonable Abuse is Too Harsh Discipline is Reasonable

61. 3 Ways To Hallmark Your Kids Discipline Abuse Leaves Marks Discipline is Restrained Abuse Leaves Marks Discipline is Restrained

62. 3 Ways To Hallmark Your Kids Discipline Abuse Damages Self -Worth Discipline Affirms Abuse Damages Self -Worth Discipline Affirms

63. 3 Ways To Hallmark Your Kids Discipline NEVER PUNISH IMMATURITY

64. 3 Ways To Hallmark Your Kids Discipline The purpose of disciplining your child is to reestablish authority, by temporarily breaking their will – but NEVER their spirit!

65. 3 Ways To Hallmark Your Kids Discipline If you break your child’s spirit, they will feel valueless! NEVER GO THERE! If you break your child’s spirit, they will feel valueless! NEVER GO THERE!

66. A HOPELESS CHILD HAS NO HOPE!

68. 3 Ways To Hallmark Your Kids Build Build Psalm 139:13-14 13 For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb. 14 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.

69. 3 Ways To Hallmark Your Kids Build Know who you are, Accept who you are and Be who you are!

70. Are You A Builder? I saw them tearing a building down, A group of men in a busy town, With a hefty blow and a zesty yell, They swung with zest, and a side wall fell. I saw them tearing a building down, A group of men in a busy town, With a hefty blow and a zesty yell, They swung with zest, and a side wall fell.

71. Are You A Builder? Asked of the foreman, “Are these men skilled? The kind you would hire, if you had to build?” He looked at me, and laughed, “No indeed! Unskilled labor is all I need. Asked of the foreman, “Are these men skilled? The kind you would hire, if you had to build?” He looked at me, and laughed, “No indeed! Unskilled labor is all I need.

72. Are You A Builder? Why, they can wreck in a day or two, What it has taken builders years to do. Why, they can wreck in a day or two, What it has taken builders years to do.

73. Are You A Builder? I asked myself, as I went my way, Which of the roles have I tried to play? I asked myself, as I went my way, Which of the roles have I tried to play?

74. Are You A Builder? Am I a builder with rule and square, Measuring and constructing with skill and care? Am I a builder with rule and square, Measuring and constructing with skill and care?

75. Are You A Builder? Or am I a wrecker who walks the town, Content with the business of tearing down? Or am I a wrecker who walks the town, Content with the business of tearing down?

76. 3 Ways To Hallmark Your Kids Build TEACH THEM TO BE REAL Phony parents build phony kids!

77. 3 Ways To Hallmark Your Kids Build NEVER PUT YOUR KIDS DOWN Romans 14:10 But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

78. 3 Ways To Hallmark Your Kids Build COMMUNICATE UNCONDITIONAL LOVE TO YOUR KIDS Ephesians 4:1-3 1 I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,

79. 3 Ways To Hallmark Your Kids Build COMMUNICATE UNCONDITIONAL LOVE TO YOUR KIDS Ephesians 4:1-3 2 With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;

80. 3 Ways To Hallmark Your Kids Build COMMUNICATE UNCONDITIONAL LOVE TO YOUR KIDS Ephesians 4:1-3 3 Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

81. 3 Ways To Hallmark Your Kids Build LISTEN TO THE ULTIMATE FATHER - GOD Matthew 3:16-17 16 And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:

82. 3 Ways To Hallmark Your Kids Build LISTEN TO THE ULTIMATE FATHER - GOD Matthew 3:16-17 17 And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

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