A Mother’s Love by Melvin Newland
Mothers are teachers. Mothers are disciplinarians. Mothers are cleaning ladies. Some mothers are gardeners and mowers of lawns. And most mothers understand that baking cookies is more important than washing windows, too. Mothers are nurses & doctors and psychologists and counselors and chauffeurs and coaches. Mothers are developers of personalities, molders of vocabularies, and shapers of attitudes. Continue reading ...

Seven Ways to Love Your Mother by Jerry Shirley
Mary witnessed the crucifixion from the foot of the cross. Can you even imagine how she must’ve felt? Jesus turns to John and says, take care of her, and looks at his mother and says, let him stand in my place as your son. John lived a very long life, and I believe he took care of Mary until she went to heaven. On the cross, Jesus is bearing the weight of the sins of the whole world on His shoulders, and yet He sees to it to make sure His mother is taken care of after He is gone! Continue reading ...

Choosing The Best Part: A Mother’s Day Message by Robert Massey
I realize that today’s woman has no easy task. I know that more appliances and conveniences are placed within the home with the goal of making the household chores easier. Things have certainly changed from the time that I was a child. There were no microwave ovens, icemaker refrigerators, and many of the other modern appliances found in today’s home. However, in spite of all these changes that supposedly add to the convenience of the home, women today are probably busier than at any other point in history. Continue reading ...

Hannah: A Model for Motherhood by Brian Bill
In a recent Calvin and Hobbes comic strip, Calvin is standing by his mother’s bed when he says, “Hey, Mom! Wake up. I made you a Mother’s Day card.” His mother was very pleased and started to read it out loud. “I was going to buy a card with hearts of pink and red. But then I thought I’d rather spend the money instead. It’s awfully hard to buy things when one’s allowance is so small. So I guess you’re plenty lucky I got you anything at all. Happy Mother’s Day. There, I’ve said it. Now I’m done.” Continue reading ...

Mary, a Model of Motherhood by Steve Malone
We’ve come together this morning for two primary reasons. One, is to honor the Lord Jesus Christ with our worship. The other, is to honor our mothers. Both are lifetime tasks, neither of which can be confined to a one hour worship service. I struggled this week to put together a Mother’s day sermon - because I don’t suppose that anything has ever been said or ever will be said that is eloquent enough, or expressive enough to articulate the true value of a mother...
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What My Mother Taught Me
My mother taught me…
RELIGION: When I spilled grape juice on the carpet, she instructed, "You better pray the stain will come out of the carpet."
LOGIC: From her decisive words, "Because I said so, that’s why."
FORESIGHT: "Make sure you wear clean underwear, in case you’re in an accident."
IRONY: "Keep laughing, and I’ll give you something to cry about."
STAMINA: "You’ll sit there ’til all that spinach is finished."
WEATHER: "It looks as if a tornado swept through your room."
THE CIRCLE OF LIFE: "I brought you into this world, and I can take you out."
BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION: "Stop acting like your father!"
ENVY: "There are millions of less fortunate children in this world who don’t have a wonderful Mom like you do!"
THANKS, MOM!

Contributed By: Dana Chau

Rest in Peace
A four-year-old and a six-year-old presented their mom with a houseplant. They had used their own money to buy it and she was thrilled. The older of them said with a sad face, "There was a bouquet at the flower shop that we wanted to give you. It was real pretty but it was too expensive. It had a ribbon on it that said ‘Rest In Peace,’ and we thought it would be just perfect since you are always asking for a little peace so that you can rest.

Contributed By: A. Todd Coget

Great Things About Moms
They rarely refuse to take their kids to the emergency room. She understands that you’re not ready to quit sucking your thumb. She understands that you can’t give up your blankie yet. It’s not cheating if she helps you write your paper. Only mothers can get all the socks organized. When you’ve moved away, she’ll send you newspaper clippings about your friends who stayed at home. Mom still uses that spoon rest you made in pottery class. She went without a new winter coat for eleven years. She cares, really cares, if you wipe your feet before you come in.

Source: Lisa Birnbach, Ann Hodgman, Patricia Marx. 1003 Great Things about Moms. Andrews McMeel Publishing, Kansas City, 2002.

The Making of Me
Thomas Edison once said, "I did not have my mother long, but she cast over me an influence which has lasted all my life. The good effects of her early training I can never lose. If it had not been for her appreciation and her faith in me at a critical time in my experience, I should never likely have become an inventor. I was always a careless boy, and with a mother of different mental caliber, I should have turned out badly. But her firmness, her sweetness, her goodness, were potent powers to keep me in the right path. My mother was the making of me. The memory of her will always be a blessing to me."

Contributed By: Steve Shepherd in his sermon, "Mother’s Day"

A Mother to Greatness
John Merrill writes this: "A young, awkward boy grew up in southern California, plagued by a learning disability that in later years would be called dyslexia. But with his mother’s encouragement and admonishment, he became a strong and capable leader. Years later he was commanding thousands of your Americans in war.
“When General George S. Patton (old “Blood and Guts”) found himself in North Africa grappling with the German Army, his thoughts on the battlefield were often of his mother. It was his mother, he often told colleagues, who ingrained in him the leadership qualities that he was to become famous for. His only regret was that he never expressed sufficient appreciation to her. “Darling Mama,” he began in a letter he wrote after her death, in words that pained him, “You are still very near. I never showed you in life the love I really felt nor my admiration for your courage.”