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The Miracle Mom (1 of 6)
by Jeff Strite
He's a cute kid isn't he? And it's obvious he loves his mother. But as I watched that video I noticed that he was very clear on one truth: His mom was not a perfect mother. ''Put down your phone'' he says - ''Stop cleaning'' - ''Cool it on the meatloaf'' - ''Have fun for once'' - ''Hug more/ shout less'' This little boy obviously loves and respects his mother, but even he understands that there's no such thing as a perfect mother. And that brings us to the story of Mary and Jesus at the wedding. It's kind of hard to think of a woman who was more honored than Mary was. She was chosen by God to be the mother of the Messiah. And she is...
A Mother's Song (3 of 4)
by Roger Thomas
If Joseph is the forgotten character of Christmas, Mary has to be the most misunderstood. She is there in every nativity play. Many times she is the most central character. Yet once we get past the sweet, sentimental manger scenes, we don't know what to do with Mary. Many push her back in the closet with the halos, angel wings, shepherds' crooks, and other Christmas props. We won't see or mention her again until November when we start to get ready for next year's Christmas program. But unlike Joseph, in the Bible Mary doesn't disappear after Christmas. She's there all the time. Sometimes front and center, sometimes...
Born of Mary (1 of 4)
by Jonathan McLeod
In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. And the virgin's name was Mary. And he came to her and said, ''Greetings, O favored one, the Lord is with you!'' But she was greatly troubled at the saying, and tried to discern what sort of greeting this might be. And the angel said to her, ''Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. And the...
Mary: Mother of James (3 of 38)
by John Barnett
Chuck Swindoll is his classic book, You and Your Child (2) writes these words, ''She cooks, she cleans, she comforts, she corrects. She has six pairs of hands and eyes in the back of her head. Mother. For some, this word conjures up images of June Cleaver, complete with lace apron and pearls -- singing lullabies, baking brownies, kissing away a child's hot tears. Others envision the Erma Bombeck model, who drives a wood-paneled station wagon and whose hobby is dust. Whatever the type, no one has more influence than a mother. For better or worse, she will forever impact the life of her child. Tough and tender...
The Eyes of Mary (3 of 3)
by Kerry Shook
We are in a series that I am calling First Person as we are sort of getting inside the hearts and the minds of some of the great Bible heroes to try to feel what they were feeling and think what they were thinking at the time that God used them. Many times when we think of men and women of the Bible we think that they were super talented, that they had this super faith or that they were just brilliant people who God used. But the truth of the matter is, they were just like you and me, ordinary people. It's just that they totally surrendered to an extraordinary God. Now, today, we are going to look through the eyes of Mary. Now I know...
Was Christ Born of the Virgin Mary? (1 of 12)
by Clarence E. Macartney
From the beginning, the Christian Church held the doctrine of the supernatural conception and Virgin Birth of Jesus Christ to be a true and essential portion of the faith once delivered unto the saints. To unbelief in all of its forms this doctrine has always been offensive. As early as the third century we find the opponents of Christianity centering their attack upon the narratives of the Virgin Birth, and from age to age, men who hate the Christian religion and wish that it were driven out of the world have bitterly assailed this doctrine of catholic Christianity. There is therefore nothing strange in the present day revival of the...
Christmas through the Eyes of Mary (2 of 3)
by Dave Gustavsen
Good morning. We're taking these few weeks around Christmas to de-clutter our brains a little bit. Because for most of us, when we hear the word ''Christmas,'' our brain starts to chatter and buzz with songs and food and traditions and memories and smells and obligations and expectations and plans. Not that any of that is bad...but it can be distracting. So for these three weeks, we're trying to rewind the clock and put ourselves in the shoes of people who never heard the word Christmas and never even heard the name ''Jesus.'' And we're asking the question: When they heard this news, how did it affect them...and what does...
Christmas Characters: Mary (2 of 6)
by Jerry Vines
For several weeks, as we approach the celebration of Christmas, I'm going to bring some messages about Christmas characters. It really is hard to believe that just a few more days over a month from now and we'll celebrate Christmas. This coming Thursday is Thanksgiving Day. That's hard to conceive. In a few more days after that we will have the celebration of Christmas. November runs into December. December runs into Christmas. Christmas runs into money. So, we are heading very rapidly toward that time of the year when we celebrate the birth of our Lord. I'm bringing these messages on Christmas...
My Christmas Wish List from Mary
by Ken Trivette
Max Lucado in It Began in a Manger has an interesting chapter entitled ''Twenty Five Questions for Mary.'' Let me share with you just a few: What was it like watching Him pray? When He saw a rainbow, did He ever mention a flood? Did you ever feel awkward teaching Him how He created the world? When He saw a lamb being led to the slaughter, did He act differently? Did the thought ever occur to you that the God to whom you were praying was asleep under your own roof? Did you ever accidentally call him Father? Did you ever think, That's God eating my soup? 2) I have always enjoyed Mark Lowry's song entitled ''Mary Did...
I Wish You a ''Mary'' Christmas (1 of 3)
by Rick White
If you were in the vicinity of the Galleria on Friday, then I don't have to tell you that it was indeed one of the busiest shopping days of the year. It was the official kick-off to the Christmas shopping season and some retailers are counting on as much as 50% of their annual profits to be made in the next 23 days. It is the Christmas season or is it? One of our men told men about an early morning run to Target on Friday where he witnessed two shoppers who were engaged in a rather intense DISCUSSION and at last count had chosen rolls of wrapping paper as their weapons of choice. As we began a time of emphasis on Christmas, I want to...
Mary's Song
by Tony Nester
Do you like mysteries? I don't mean the "who dun it" kind of mystery. I mean the kind of mystery that wakes you up and makes you recognize that there are realities at work in our world that go beyond our sciences, our technologies, and our databases. This is the kind of mystery that's in the Bible and no where so much as in the Christmas story. So much of the Christmas story is about mystery. If you miss the mystery you miss out on the truth and power of Christmas. The mystery of Christmas is that Almighty God became an "un- mighty" child - weak, wet, and crying in the arms of a young girl named Mary. Not everybody's...
Mary Had A Little Lamb
by Stan Coffey
A little child was playing her record player one evening when her father came into the room. He watched as she pranced around and was singing the little nursery rhyme that the record was playing. It said, Mary had a little lamb, whose fleece was white as snow, and everywhere that Mary went, the lamb was sure to go...It followed her to school one day, which was against the rule. It made the children laugh and play to see a lamb at school. When the record was finished, the little girl looked up at her daddy with almost a divine look on her face and said with tears in her eyes, ''You know Daddy, Mary did have a little lamb, the Lamb...
Mary - The Magnificent Mother of Jesus
by Marvin D. Patterson
As we continue our special look at Christmas, and always remember it is Merry Christmas, not Merry X-mas, but I want to examine Mary, the mother of Jesus tonight. She is the most well known mother in the history of mankind. Have you ever thought about that? Of all the mothers that have lived and died, Mary is the most famous of all. What is it that makes her so famous? It is the simple fact that she believed in God, and followed His plans for her life! The best life that you or I can ever live on this earth is that life that God has planned for us! That life is the will of God. God has a plan and a purpose for every...
Mary's Message in Song
by Daniel Rodgers
Before the beginning of time--God, in His omniscience, knew that Adam and Eve--the centerpiece of His creation, would succumb to Satan and be lost in sin. God also knew that man would need a Savior--someone who would be willing to pay the price in order to redeem them...that Someone was Jesus. The Bible says in Gal 4:4-5, "But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons." At just the right time--in the "fullness of time," God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, to a young...
Mary's Story (2 of 4)
by Fred Lowery
We are in the Christmas story and last week it was Joseph and today it is Mary and Luke 1 of you would take your copy of the Scripture and find Luke 1. As we talked about last week Christmas is real. The Christmas story is about real people with real questions, real problems, real struggles, real needs. Mary was a real girl who grew up playing wedding and looking forward to her own fairy tale wedding. As you know I have girls and maybe it's just because I do - do so many weddings and they use to go to weddings with me but my girls played wedding all the time and I mean they would - they would switch around...
Mary and Martha (17 of 52)
by Christopher Harbin
Over the centuries, the church has struggled between looking to Scripture for guidance in its theology and practice and looking to the traditions and cultures in which it has lived. Often as not, we are blinded by the influence of culture and fail to even ask the right questions of the very Scriptures we read. We often miss the point of one text of another. At minimum, we do not grasp the implications of what we read to the day to day practices of our lives and the practices of our communities of faith. Perhaps nowhere is this more apparent than in consideration of issues surrounding women and what we might call a feminine theology. As a...
Mary's Song, The Revolution Is Here!
by Joe Alain
Mary's song is beautiful but It's easy to get caught up in the beauty of the poetry and music and yet fail to perceive just how radical the revolutionary song of Mary actually is. Don't just listen to the music, listen to the words! Many Bible scholars have commented on the revolutionary character of Mary's song and have concluded that the Magnificat is one of the most revolutionary documents in Scripture. Stanley Jones, a famous preacher of several generation ago, said that the Magnificat is "the most revolutionary document in the world." Geldenhese, a Dutch theologian said that the Magnificat "announces powerful...
Hail Mary (7 of 12)
by Brian Fletcher
Jesus has returned from the others side of the Sea of Galilee where he healed the Gerasene Demoniac (Pigs) And the people were ''waiting for him'' to get back [On a Bible Study note I want you to notice the details that Luke puts into his account of this story. Is the Bible true? One test of credibility is to get eyewitness accounts and to notice the details.] Video: Hail Mary compilation When we are weak then Jesus is strong: 1. We have to admit that we are weak and desperate 2. We have to believe that Jesus is strong and sufficient WE HAVE TO ADMIT THAT WE ARE WEAK AND DESPERATE Here in Luke 8 we have...
I. Mary - Loving God with All Your Heart - Ten Secrets for Eternal Unfading Beauty (5 of 37)
by John Barnett
Turn in your Bibles with me to Luke chapter one. We are coming to near the end of our study of Mary's life. The other day while standing in one of those endless lines at the Quik Trip and you know how they have those National Inquirers and all that stuff down there I was trying not to look at them but you know some of those headlines are hard not to look at you know? Man gives birth to little sheep--- you know just ridiculous stuff. They are so ridiculous you look at them but my eye looked down and it said, ''World's most beautiful woman hospitalized''. I immediately went into my pocket and got out my cell phone and called...
Is the Virgin Birth Necessary? (2 of 15)
by Jerry Vines
The birth of a baby is not an unusual thing. The Bible says that when Jesus was born He was virgin born. The virgin birth of Jesus Christ is unique, never one like it. Jesus is the only baby ever born who had an earthly mother but no earthly father. He had a heavenly father but no heavenly mother. He is the only baby ever born who was older than His mother and as old as His father. When Jesus was born the Bible says that God was born. When Jesus was born the Infinite became an infant. The Creator became a child. The Ancient of Days became a baby in Bethlehem. When Jesus was born there was...
