A House is Not a Home

Proverbs 29:18

18 Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.

Matthew 6:9-10

9“This, then, is how you should pray:“ ‘Our Father in heaven,

hallowed be your name, 10your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

John 13:34-35

34“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. 35By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”

1. Start with fixing your .  

Matthew 7:3-5

3 “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 4 How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

Psalm 139:23-24

Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. 24 See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

Philippians 2:5-7

5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: 6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: 7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:

2. Take the speck out with . 

Ephesians 4:15

15 Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ.

John 10:11

“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

Ephesians 5:21 

21 Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.

 3. Keep the God-founded at the center of your. 

Matthew 22:37-38

37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment.