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…