Words of Life|Pastor Balan Swaminathan|HIPM

When God Shakes the Nations

Haggai 2:1-9
God is not angry at us, God is not punishing the world.
• God is shaking the nations to gain your attention.
• The shaking is going to destroy everything that is not connected with God
• Once the shaking is over, God is going to bless Spiritually, Materially and going to give Peace to the Land

God is in your Crisis

4 P's that you can do in Crisis.
1. Be at Peace
2. Be Practical
3. Be Prayerful
4. Be Proclaiming

Relationship Under Attack | It's Never too Late (Concluding Sermon)

This sermon is part of the "Must Listen Series". Don't skip, but listen.

We discussed about how to repair the damages that were already made and prevent the families from future damages.
1. Don't allow every junk into your house
Video games that killed people in real life
Movies that killed people in real life
Children exposed to these will not listen to parents, become rebellious,disobedient.

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Relationship Under Attack | Cared but Neglected (Aging Parents)

This sermon is part of the "Must Listen Series". Don't skip, but listen.

We talked about the causes of relationship damages between aging parents and adult children Today's Reality of difficulties in maintaining relationship

Balancing Aging Care and Other Family Relationships - what does scripture say?
- Honoring Parents
- Leaving Father & Mother as the primary relationship is your marriage relationship
- Relationship with other family members such as brothers and sisters and their families

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Relationship Under Attack | Owned but Abandoned (Children)

This sermon is part of the "Must Listen Series". Don't skip, but listen.
In today's family setup

- Children are often neglected
- Children are into trouble already
- Relationship with parents are broken
Children struggle with
- Disobedience & disrespect
- Irresponsibility, carelessness or negligence
- Laziness - Worldliness

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Relationship Under Attack | Living Together, So What?

This sermon is part of the "Must Listen Series". Don't skip, but listen.

- This is what was discussed.
- What is living together?
- Marriage is Honorable
- Biblical view of the marital statuses
- Statistics on Living together
- Negative side of living together
- What does Bible say about living together?
- How does living together affect our family relationship?
- So what?

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Relationship Under Attack | Heterosexuality, What is Right?

This sermon is part of the "Must Listen Series". Don't skip, but listen.

- There are so many heterosexual pulling forces in the world (Prostitution, Human trafficking, Pornography, Abortion, Sex industries, Rape & sexual violence)
- Yielding to such forces affect the family relationship - Families & relationship struggle with pre-marital and extra-marital issues
- Scripture clearly defines the boundaries for both unmarried and for married
- Violating these boundaries certainly results in judgment of God towards the eternal hell.

This is just a summary, listen to the sermon for an in depth coverage on the topic.

Relationship Under Attack | Homosexuality, What is Wrong?

This sermon is part of the "Must Listen Series". Don't skip, but listen.

- Listen to the sermon to know the nuances in the world of Sexuality.
- Listen to the sermon to know what is happening around you today.
- Listen to know your stand today as a Bible believing Christian.
- Listen to know the better life that Jesus can offer you, if you are struggling to come out of what you are bound with today.

Finally listen to the sermon to know how we should love everyone as Jesus loved the sinners and show them the right way.

Relationship Under Attack | Journeying Together

This sermon is part of the "Must Listen Series". Don't skip, but listen. It will bless yours and your children's family life. 

Summary of this sermon:  (Keys for journeying together)

- As husband and wife, you are made one flesh and one bone, you can't separate until death 
- Without your husband you are incomplete, without your wife you are incomplete
- Cohabitation, premarital sex, homosexuality, divorce and remarriage are the attack on the long lasting marriage relationship 

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Relationship Under Attack | Introduction

This sermon was an introductory sermon for the series called "Relationship Under Attack". A very interesting series just started at HIPM.

Here is the summary of the First sermon in this series.
- Families are under attack
- Relationship is under attack
- Common battlegrounds our families are facing today

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