{"id":10787,"date":"2016-08-17T00:57:58","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T05:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/grandparentsgrandchildren\/"},"modified":"2016-08-17T00:57:58","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T05:57:58","slug":"grandparentsgrandchildren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/grandparentsgrandchildren\/","title":{"rendered":"GRANDPARENTS\/GRANDCHILDREN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;   text-align:center;line-height:normal'>Good people leave an inheritance to   their grandchildren, but the sinner\u2019s wealth passes to the godly.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;   text-align:center;line-height:normal'>Proverbs 13:22<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;   text-align:center;line-height:normal'>Grandchildren are the crowning glory   of the aged; parents are the pride of their children.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;   text-align:center;line-height:normal'>Proverbs 17:6<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>T<\/b>he simplest toy, on which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal'>Sam Levenson<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>A<\/b>dmission: My life was organized until I became a grandparent.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>T<\/b>he grandparents\u2019 job is to give their grandchildren roots and wings.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>A<\/b> grandparent must recognize the value of generational continuity.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>W<\/b>hat\u2019s done to children, they will do to society.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal'>Dr. Karl Menninger<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>N<\/b>othing is harder on a grandparent than watching a grandchild being corrected.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>N<\/b>obody can do for little children what grandparents can do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle dust over the lives of little children.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal'>Alex Haley<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>G<\/b>randmas don\u2019t have to do anything\u2014just be there.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>A<\/b> grandfather is a man-grandmother.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>W<\/b><i>hat Is a Grandmother?<\/i> (Written by a ninety-four-year-old)<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'><b>M<\/b>y hair is white and I\u2019m almost blind.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>The days of my youth are far behind.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>My neck is stiff, can\u2019t turn my head,<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>And I really listen to hear what\u2019s said.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'><b>M<\/b>y legs are wobbly, can\u2019t hardly walk,<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>But, glory be, I sure can talk!<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>And this is the message I want you to get,<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>I can still get around\u2014and I ain\u2019t dead yet!<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>I<\/b>f Mother says no, ask Grandmother.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>M<\/b>y grandmother actually smells like a cookie and that\u2019s enough to get any child\u2019s attention.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal'>Lee Bailey<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>S<\/b>ome of our modern grandparents are so young and spry that they help Boy Scouts across the street.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>N<\/b>o cowboy was ever faster on the draw than a grandparent pulling a baby picture out of a wallet.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>H<\/b>er: \u201cHave I told you about my grandchildren?\u201d Him: \u201cNo, and I thank you very much!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>D<\/b>id you hear about the grandparents who were so tickled that their grandchildren were coming to visit for a week that they put an extra five dollars in the offering plate at church? When the grandchildren went home at the end of the week, the grandparents\u2019 joy must have doubled because that Sunday they put a ten-dollar bill in the plate.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>B<\/b>eing grandparents is God\u2019s reward for growing old.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>G<\/b>od couldn\u2019t be everywhere, so he invented grandparents.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>G<\/b>randparents: the people to take the baby to for an overmauling.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>I<\/b> don\u2019t know who my grandfather was; I am concerned to know what his grandson will be.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal'>Abraham Lincoln<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>A<\/b> grandparent: a grandchild\u2019s press secretary.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'><b>I<\/b>\u2019ve seen the lights of Paris,<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>I\u2019ve seen the lights of Rome,<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>But the greatest lights I\u2019ve seen so far<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Are the taillights on my children\u2019s car<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Taking my grandkids home.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>T<\/b>here\u2019s only one perfect grandchild in the world, and every grandparent has it.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>G<\/b>randparent: a baby-sitter who doesn\u2019t hang around the refrigerator.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>G<\/b>randparents are parents who have a second chance.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>J<\/b>ust about the time she thinks her work is done, a mother becomes a grandmother.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good people leave an inheritance to their grandchildren, but the sinner\u2019s wealth passes to the godly. Proverbs 13:22 Grandchildren are the crowning glory of the aged; parents are the pride of their children. Proverbs 17:6 The simplest toy, on which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent. 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