Tips For Home Improvement

Here are 15 tips drawn from Biblical principles to improve your home.

Your home and the Lord

Joshua 24:14-15 Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD. [15] And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.

1. Attend church together

2. Read the Bible and pray together

3. Find times to serve the Lord together

The husband and the wife relationship

Ephesians 5:24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. [25] Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

4. Work at keeping the communication flowing

5. Have a date time (men your wife needs this even if you don’t)

6. Never yell – unless the house is on fire

The finances in the family

Prov 6:6-8 Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: [7] Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, [8] Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.

7. Be faithful stewards of God’s blessings

8. Get on a budget that includes a saving account

9. Save so that you can - take family vacations

The potholes in life’s road

Ephesians 4:32 And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.

10. Resolve differences quickly and respect each other’s opinion

11. Forget what has been forgiven

12. When in trouble get Godly council

The kids

Prov 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

13. Do not let the kids play one parent against the other

14. Give every child at least two years of piano lessons

15. Let kids participate in sports, scouts, and other activities as long as they do not have to miss church to do so. Don’t tell the pastor you won’t be at church because of a ballgame, tell the coach you won’t be at the ballgame because of church. Tell him, at your house - the Lord is first.