Honour and Respect – part 13

Honour and Respect – part 13

Exodus 20 v 12. Honour your father and your mother.   To have a home like we discussed yesterday we need spousal relationships that are good, healing, sincere and intimate. So it stands to reason that we must safeguard our marriage. A marriage which is merely...
Honour and Respect – part 12

Honour and Respect – part 12

Exodus 20:12. Honour your father and your mother.   Compare this reading with the words of the Apostle Paul in Ephesians 6:1-3: “Children obey your parents in the Lord for this is right.” Honour your father and your mother is the first commandment with a promise...
Honour and Respect – part 11

Honour and Respect – part 11

Exodus 20 v 12. Honour your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you.   We pick up our train of thought from yesterday, and continue to reflect on the duty of parenting.   At this point we need to bear in...
Honour and Respect – part 9

Honour and Respect – part 9

Exodus 20:12. Honour your father and your mother that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you.   Honour I have already drawn the distinction between honouring and obeying. Now let me suggest some ways in which children can actually honour...