Title: "The Ambitious Mother"
Theme: "Salome the mother of James and John, loved her sons"
Text: "Matthew 20: 20 - 21"
Mother's Day Sermon
Mat 20:20 KJV - Then came to him the mother of Zebedee's children with her sons, worshipping [him], and desiring a certain thing of him.
Mat 20:21 KJV - And he said unto her, What wilt thou? She saith unto him, Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on the left, in thy kingdom.
I - The Rightful Devotion of This Mother
II - The Righteous Desire of This Mother
III - The Regal Descendants of This Mother
This sermon contains a fully alliterated outline, with subpoints.
The Praying Example of Susanna Wesley
If a passing stranger walking through the rural village of Epworth, England, on any given day between 1700 and 1720 had peered through the window of the home of the rector of the local Anglican church, he might have caught sight of something quite strange. Depending on the time of day, this observer might have seen a woman sitting in a chair with her kitchen apron pulled up over her head while ten children read, studied, or played all around her.
Two of those ten children would have been little boys, John and Charles, who would grow up to shape the course of Christian history and thus change the world. The woman under the apron would have been Susanna Wesley, who assumed this odd posture for two hours almost every day.
In a moment you will understand why.
Susanna understood the dynamics of large families. Born the twenty-fifth of twenty-five children in 1669, Susanna Annesley grew up the daughter of a prominent, highly educated minister in cosmopolitan London.
She had little formal education, but growing up in an academic household with so many older siblings left her well-read and well-rounded intellectually.
She met Samuel Wesley, an aspiring Anglican minister, and married him in 1688, when she was nineteen years old.
Susanna's remaining ...
Theme: "Salome the mother of James and John, loved her sons"
Text: "Matthew 20: 20 - 21"
Mother's Day Sermon
Mat 20:20 KJV - Then came to him the mother of Zebedee's children with her sons, worshipping [him], and desiring a certain thing of him.
Mat 20:21 KJV - And he said unto her, What wilt thou? She saith unto him, Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on the left, in thy kingdom.
I - The Rightful Devotion of This Mother
II - The Righteous Desire of This Mother
III - The Regal Descendants of This Mother
This sermon contains a fully alliterated outline, with subpoints.
The Praying Example of Susanna Wesley
If a passing stranger walking through the rural village of Epworth, England, on any given day between 1700 and 1720 had peered through the window of the home of the rector of the local Anglican church, he might have caught sight of something quite strange. Depending on the time of day, this observer might have seen a woman sitting in a chair with her kitchen apron pulled up over her head while ten children read, studied, or played all around her.
Two of those ten children would have been little boys, John and Charles, who would grow up to shape the course of Christian history and thus change the world. The woman under the apron would have been Susanna Wesley, who assumed this odd posture for two hours almost every day.
In a moment you will understand why.
Susanna understood the dynamics of large families. Born the twenty-fifth of twenty-five children in 1669, Susanna Annesley grew up the daughter of a prominent, highly educated minister in cosmopolitan London.
She had little formal education, but growing up in an academic household with so many older siblings left her well-read and well-rounded intellectually.
She met Samuel Wesley, an aspiring Anglican minister, and married him in 1688, when she was nineteen years old.
Susanna's remaining ...
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