1. Building Momentum In Family Life

2. “By wisdom a house is built, and through understanding it is established; through knowledge its rooms are filled with rare and beautiful treasures.” Proverbs 24:3-4

3. The Essential Momentum Priority Parents are responsible for the health of their family

4. Four Essentials to Building Momentum and Growing Healthy Families 1.Prepare your family for life “You must teach these commandments to your children and talk about them when you are at home or out for a walk; at bedtime and the first thing in the morning.” Deut. 6:7 –LB

5. Three ways we prepare our family for life: 1.Relationships 2.Character 3.Values

6. Four Essentials to Building Momentum and Growing Healthy Families 2. Protect your family from the storms of life “Reverence for God gives a man deep strength; his children have a place of refuge and security.” Proverbs 14:26 – LB

7. Three kinds of storms 1.Change 2.Failure 3.Rejection

8. Three ways to build momentum in the storms of life 1.Hear them 2.Hug them 3.Help them

9. Four Essentials to Building Momentum and Growing Healthy Families 3. Play with your family for fun “People ought to enjoy every day of their lives, no matter how long they live.” Ecclesiastes 11:8

10. Four Essentials to Building Momentum and Growing Healthy Families 4. Point your family (and others) to God “Knowing God results in every other kind of understanding.” Proverbs 9:6

11. “Choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve…But as for me and my house we will serve the Lord.” Joshua 24:15