February 12 Sermon: Honor

So, as Caty and I were having a discussion a few weeks back to figure out where the Ten Commandments were going to fall each week as we were going through this series, we discovered that the Sunday that we had planned for Youth Sunday ended up being the Sunday that we were going to be doing Honor Your Father and Your Mother. Now, initially we laughed about that. We thought that was good. It was good. What a great opportunity for us to discuss this commandment as we are thinking about our young people and as we are thinking about their role in these commands and where we sit as adults in that role. Wonderful opportunity. But at the same time, one of the things that came to mind for me during this is that what we might have a problem with is that we automatically think and we assume that this command is about the kids, that this is primarily for them. And we can use this to say, Honor your father and your mother.