Making Your Home A Place Called Blessing John Trent, Ph.D.
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Making Your Home A Place Called
BlessingJohn Trent, Ph.D.
Good Morning! Let’s take “one minute” to meet a few celebrities right around you!
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What you just did illustrates in part a “choice” that Almighty God sets before each Father… and each person… here today…
“I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, the Blessing and the curse. So choose life….” Deut. 30:19
Let’s define the words that make up this “choice” …
Life = Movement towards someone or something…
Let’s define the words that make up this “choice”
Death = To step away…
Let’s define the words that make up this “choice” …
To Bless = to “add”… like adding coins to a scale…
Let’s define the words that make up this “choice”…
To curse = to dam up the stream – to subtract life-giving water…
The incredible benefit – or lasting hurt – from the “choice” we make…
{5 Ways to
Choose to Bless Today…
{1) Appropriate meaningful touch
{2) Spoken words
{3) Attach high Value
{3) Attach high Value
If your child is a Lion…
{3) Attach high Value
If your child is an Otter…
{3) Attach high Value
If your child is a Retriever…
{3) Attach high Value
If your child is a Beaver…
{3) Attach high Value
Even if you’ve got the whole zoo!
{4) Special Future
{5) Genuine Commitment
NEED A PICTURE OF TED AND LYNN HERE!!! This is the unconditional
“choice” to be committed to an imperfect person -- like two people you may know have done with me (and my family) for over 30 years…
{Today the message of the Blessing is a new book and One Million people choosing to Bless ONE child… But it all began at Dallas Seminary – and right here at Christ Chapel…
{The message of the Blessing may have started here… but it continues with a “choice” we now set before each father…