Words of Life: Honor Your Father & Your Mother. October 19, 2025

Now that we've gone through the first four commandments about our posture toward God, we turn to God's commandments about how we are to live with one another, beginning with "Honor your father and your mother."

Honoring ancestors is an ancient tradition that extends beyond cultures and peoples. In Jesus time, people had come up with human rules that people were using to dismiss caring for their parents in their old age, and Jesus did not approve. Honor matters.

Honoring loving parents is easy and looks different than honoring abusive parents, even abusive parents who have attempted reconciliation. Forgiveness then becomes the way we move forward, honestly letting go of the resentment instead of dying by our own poison.

Pastor Steve Tollefson brings today's message of honor and forgiveness.