An Unlikely Mother’s Day Sermon
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Joshua 1:1-9
INTRO
1. A teacher gave her class of second graders a lesson on the magnet and what it does. The next day in a written test, she included this question: “My full name has six letters. The first one is M, and I pick up things. What am I?” When the grades were all in the teacher was astounded to find that almost fifty percent had written in "MOTHER."
2. Many of us are familiar with the love chapter in the Bible: 1 Corinthians 13. It tells us that love is patient, kind, etc. Let me read you a different approach to this chapter focusing on moms:
If I live in a house of spotless beauty with everything in its place, but have not love, I am a housekeeper–not a homemaker. If I have time for waxing, polishing, and decorative achievements, but have not love, my children learn cleanliness – not godliness. Love leaves the dust in search of a child’s laugh. Love smiles at the tiny fingerprints on a newly cleaned window. Love wipes away the tears before it wipes up the spilled milk. Love picks up the child before it picks up the toys. Love is present through the trials. Love reprimands, reproves, and is responsive. Love crawls with the baby, walks with the toddler, runs with the child, then stands aside to let the youth walk into adulthood. Love is the key that opens salvation’s message to a child’s heart. Before I became a mother I took glory in my house of perfection. Now I glory in God’s perfection of my child.
As a mother, there is much I must teach my child, but the greatest of all is love.
3. So many things come to mind when I think of mom’s. Things like love, strength, patience, grace, hope, joy, perseverance, and so much more. All of these things and more represent the best qualities of the moms in our lives. But instead of standing up here this morning and preaching a sermon on the qualities of a mother, I want to speak with you on what a mom needs.
4. I am sorry to say that I ...
SermonSearch Staff
Joshua 1:1-9
INTRO
1. A teacher gave her class of second graders a lesson on the magnet and what it does. The next day in a written test, she included this question: “My full name has six letters. The first one is M, and I pick up things. What am I?” When the grades were all in the teacher was astounded to find that almost fifty percent had written in "MOTHER."
2. Many of us are familiar with the love chapter in the Bible: 1 Corinthians 13. It tells us that love is patient, kind, etc. Let me read you a different approach to this chapter focusing on moms:
If I live in a house of spotless beauty with everything in its place, but have not love, I am a housekeeper–not a homemaker. If I have time for waxing, polishing, and decorative achievements, but have not love, my children learn cleanliness – not godliness. Love leaves the dust in search of a child’s laugh. Love smiles at the tiny fingerprints on a newly cleaned window. Love wipes away the tears before it wipes up the spilled milk. Love picks up the child before it picks up the toys. Love is present through the trials. Love reprimands, reproves, and is responsive. Love crawls with the baby, walks with the toddler, runs with the child, then stands aside to let the youth walk into adulthood. Love is the key that opens salvation’s message to a child’s heart. Before I became a mother I took glory in my house of perfection. Now I glory in God’s perfection of my child.
As a mother, there is much I must teach my child, but the greatest of all is love.
3. So many things come to mind when I think of mom’s. Things like love, strength, patience, grace, hope, joy, perseverance, and so much more. All of these things and more represent the best qualities of the moms in our lives. But instead of standing up here this morning and preaching a sermon on the qualities of a mother, I want to speak with you on what a mom needs.
4. I am sorry to say that I ...
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