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In the fall of 2006 , Grace Central hosted an eleven-week series on the family, entitled "Extreme Home Makeover." Designed to strengthen the ties in your family, to repair the breaches in your home, and to encourage you in your desire to improve the relationships in your life. Each topic is available below for streaming-audio download.

 

September 10:

The Nature of the Family

What is its purpose and how does it function?

What is the perfect family?

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September 17:

What does marriage mean?

Is there nothing more to a marriage than a primal need to procreate?

What if a marriage were representative of something greater than simply the joining of two people?

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September 24:

Divorce & Remarriage

These two terms are among the least understood concepts in the New Testament. What does the Bible really teach about divorce and remarriage?

Interested in some study materials on how to avoid divorce? Learn more >>(PDF Download)

Do you want to really study the issue?

Learn more >>(PDF Download)

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October 1

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The Single-Parent Family

Is this family a "broken home" or does God have hope and purpose for the sing-parent family?

Can a single-parent home be a "complete" home? We think it can. But with every home, it too needs outside support. Find out what that support should be.

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October 8:

The Blended Family

"Hers, mine, and ours."

Getting rid of the baggage and building anew.

A blended family can be a triumph of hope over experience.

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October 15:

Husband and Wife Relationships

Dealing with the various ways in which a married couple can express their love and the love of God within their marriage.

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October 22:

Healing the Hurts of Family

(Continuation of October 15)
What did King Solomon mean when he said to "catch the little foxes"; handling disagreements; learning to communicate, etc.

God alone is the Great Physician who can heal your hurts.

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October 29

:

Raising Kids for Fun and Profit

Child Discipline and General Parenting Skills.

How do kids think? Why do they do what they do? And what is the goal of raising kids? Hint: raising kids has nothing to do with raising kids.

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November 5

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Parenting Teens

Raising Men and Women for the 21st Century--helping them become adults; teaching them sexual clarity in a sexually conflicted and confusing world.

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November 12:

Family Finances

This is every family's interface with worldly values, regardless how spiritual we would like to be.

Life is much more than getting and spending.

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November 19:

Learning to thank God for my family

Every family is messy. Learn to rejoice with the mess.

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Discussion groups in homes around town will begin during this series to go into greater depth on this most important subject of the family. Contact us for more information.

Downloadable PDFs

For further information about various Family Issues please download the following PDF files:

Avoiding Divorce
Seven Principles for a Great Marriage; Or, How To Avoid Divorce
read more>>

Marriage Divorce White Paper
This paper will focus upon the nature of marriage (particularly the mar-riage bond), the causes and results of divorce, and the options for those who are divorced in regard to their desire to remarry.
read more >>

Raising Teens for the 21st Century

Parents must equip their children to be fully functioning in a secular, and godless society without being compromised in their beliefs or finding themselves nonfunctional in an alien environment.
read more >>

Rebuilding After Divorce
How can we consider rebuilding, if there is nothing apparent with which to rebuild? But the nature of God speaks against this: none is so lost that God cannot save, no situa-tion is so far gone that God cannot redeem it and make it a trophy of grace, no sin is so foul or stigma so great that God cannot restore.
read more >>

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