Word of Salvation - September 2010   HONOURING YOUR PARENTS, John de Hoog (Sermon 6 in a series on the Ten Commandments)   Text: Exodus 20:12 Reading: Ephesians 5:22-6:9 Music: BOW 9, 369, “Have faith in God”, “Your grace is sufficient”   Many people see the fifth commandment about honouring your parents as the softest commandment. A sermon on this commandment is going to contain lots of warm fuzzies about family and good kids, and the preacher will tell us to get our act together with the way we are raising our kids, but generally speaking it will all be rather...

Word of Salvation - October 2010   CHRIST-HONOURING RELATIONSHIPS AT HOME, Peter Smit (Sermon 11 of a series on Ephesians, Series Title – Ephesians: Portraits of a living church   Text – Ephesians 6:1-4   Probably the most important relationships in life are your home relationships. How parents relate to children and how children relate to parents. If relationships at home work in the way God intends, that impacts children for the rest of their lives. But the flip side is that if home relationships are destructive, or if parents are too authoritarian or permissive, or if children don’t learn to...