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Paul writes to the Corinthians that in whichever situation you are in when you are saved, you are to be fully faithful in the circumstance God has placed you in. In the first century, singleness wasn't very prevalent for a religious person and therefore some felt restlessness and anxiety in their unmarried condition. In the gospel, no circumstance is a position of lacking for the believer. In Christ, we are to be fully present and faithful in the situation we are in. This sermon calls singles to undivided devotion to the Lord and hope in the gospel rather than a change in status.

Justin Earley - "Habits of the Household": https://a.co/d/5AzfZKf

In our context, busyness is one of the most prevalent thieves of the Christian home. In this sermon we will first examine how busyness takes the wheel of our family when we intended God to direct our homes. We then learn to number our days and see how godly habits can realign our homes towards God once more. The Ten Commandments gives us a rule of life for forming our families. Let us reclaim our families by committing ourselves unto the Lord again daily!

Live as a child of God and pass on the gifts I have received as an inheritance to my children.

We begin our family sermon series looking at Joseph's family story. Family is both beautiful and broken at the same time. We begin by looking at God's design and intention for family. Family was designed to be our first Jesus community. In this community we were to ground ourselves in God's Word, intimately commit to one another and experience the joy of having all things in common. Sin came broke God's design for family. We see the brokenness of family in Joseph's family story. Joseph had a deeply flawed family who scarred him and wounded him. Despite this, God does not allow Joseph to move forward without redemption for his family. In seeing God's fatherhood and care, Joseph is able to not only forgive his family but move towards them with redemption.

We come to the end of Joshua. The people of God are settling into the land and they are about to start their lives after all this time. But as they were prepared to get on with their lives, Joshua stuns them with a startling ultimatum. He says to them: "Choose this day whom you will serve." Joshua shows them that they cannot make a life without either serving or rejecting God. They will either serve the gods of the world or they will serve God. They don't have the choice not to choose. In this sermon, we will see how choosing ourselves is choosing idols and to try to serve both God and idols is death. We will finally count the cost together as a congregation and see why choosing God every day is choosing life.

Joshua is at the end of his life and now he is no longer the young man leading the charge into battle. Joshua is now an older man and he is to give hsi faith away- his life away. We also are called to give our lives away in the second half of life. We can only do that when we find our home with God. We must wrestle with God and be overpowered by his love for us. Joshua’s inheritance to them is the call to love the LORD. We are also to pass on the way of heaven to others as we get older.