Sunday, October 23, 2011

Late Posts

Please forgive me for the late posts.
Mens’ Chapter 10 notes and quotes for October 23, 2011
-Allow for your wife’s gifts to be expressed
-What do spouses do to help their spouses express their ministry gifts?
-What should spouses do to help their spouses express their ministry gifts?
-God makes the union between husband and wife like that candy cane in which the colors cannot be separated, only broken
-Marriage is like the hard candy not like the swislers
-Marriage is a unique creation by God
-Making room for your wife to do her ministry is making room for God to do His ministry
-How do we make room?, by diminishing ourselves

Sermon Notes 10/23/11 Brother Tony
-God wants only one thing from us:  total commitment to His plans and purposes in our lives
-We need to honor (Spend time with one another) one another and be committed and loyal to one another
-Time can never be bought back
-Philippians 2: 12 is especially good

Mens’ Chapter 10 notes and quotes for October 16, 2011
-Chapter 8 - We have no rights as husbands
                  - Not I but we
-Chapter 9 – We have no time as our own as our husbands
-Chapter 10 – Making room for your wife’s gifts; trust
-Man and wife are like the candy cane:  Spiritually bonded together
-We had unique identities of our own, but God made us one
-If you are looking to someone besides God to fulfill your needs, then you are outside of plan for your life
-Submission to each other is not spiritually blind
-Submission will make room for each other
-Is there a rusty door in your life that you have not opened up to others, the Lord, or even yourself?
-If you make room for each other, both will expand into each other’s lives
-True submission in your relationship does not hold back a rusty door (You are not going to hurt me in this area)
-How much room do you allow your wife to grow?
-Let me help you be everything you need to be in the Lord
-Man is the head; Woman is the heart of the relationship
-Man has the authority but the Woman has the influence
-The head is full of knowledge, but the heart is full of wisdom
-In the book of Proverbs, wisdom is referred to as a female characteristic

Mens’ notes and quotes for October 09, 2011
-Materials on game sites has suggestive material that can lead to porn sites
-Free apps can lead to all types of computer problems
-We need to be fathers who know what is going on
-Do not assume that your wife and children are ok without you
-The time they need is your interest in their lives
-Time is the one thing
-One of the most important things to a woman is the time with her husband
-Women feel alone
-What we gave our wives before we were married is our attention
-Are we really engaged with our wives and children?
-Issue of time is priorities
-No condemnation, but do a time evaluation with your wives
- Read Chapter 10 for next week

Mens’ Chapter 8 and 9 notes and quotes for October 2, 2011
-1 Corinthians 7:1-6 – read in several versions
-Benevolence (KJV) – Give something of value from one person to another
-I should not withhold anything good from my wife
-You do not have a right; it is God’s rights