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3551. Qualities Needed In All Moms

2 Timothy 1:5

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Brett Blair

A panel of experts was asked to complete some sentences about their moms. What made them experts was the one thing they all had in common. They were all kindergarteners. Even though these are the words of 6 year olds I think the qualities they recognized in their moms are they qualities needed in all moms. Here are the sentences and the answers: My mom is best at: "feeding the dog," "making my bed," "driving," "cleaning," "running," "riding a two-wheeler," "watering the garden." If I had enough money, I'd ...

3552. Influence of Mothers

2 Timothy 1:5

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Many scholars have concluded that you cannot really understand John Wesley, the founder of the Methodist movement, unless you understand his mother Susanna Wesley. She was so instrumental in his life that she inevitably affected the movement and its direction. Americans know that Abraham Lincoln led this nation through perhaps its time of greatest crisis; but who was it that made Abraham Lincoln the man that he was? I know what Lincoln thought. He said it was his mother. I would submit to you this morning ...

3553. Why God Made Moms…

2 Timothy 1:5

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"Why God made moms" answers given by 2nd grade school children to the following questions. Why did God make mothers? 1. She's the only one who knows where the scotch tape is. 2. Mostly to clean the house. 3. To help us out of there when we were getting born. How did God make mothers? 1. He used dirt, just like for the rest of us. 2. Magic plus super powers and a lot of stirring. 3. God made my Mom just the same like he made me. He just used bigger parts. What ingredients are mothers made of? 1. God makes ...

3554. All Those Preliminaries

2 Timothy 1:5

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In an old Peanuts strip, Peppermint Patty and Violet are reflecting on being a grandmother. After Patty declares that she would like to be a grandmother, Violet agrees and says it would be nice because all they have to do is "sit and rock" (not quite the case, is it?) The girls then decide that the trouble with being a grandmother is that first you have to be a wife and then a mother…and Violet sighs, "I know it…it's all those preliminaries that get me!"

3555. Who Am I? – Mother

2 Timothy 1:5

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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. I pick up things. What am I?" When the test papers were turned in, the teacher was astonished to find that almost 50 percent of the students answered the question with the word Mother.

3556. A Good Mom

2 Timothy 1:5

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Andrew M. Greeley

Once upon a time there was a Mom, who tried her best to be a good Mom and to be fair with all her children. Her children, like all children, didn't really appreciate this and were always telling her she did more for one or the other of them than she did for all of them. "You love her (him) more than you do me", was an oft heard refrain from one or the other. Though the Mom felt bad about her children's reaction, she just continued to do the best she could to keep them all satisfied. She encouraged their ...

3557. The Value of the Job - Motherhood

2 Timothy 1:5

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Being a mother is a demanding job. As a matter of fact, according to a recent report from Salary.com, a website dedicated to researching average salaries for various jobs and industries, reports stay-at-home moms would earn an average of $162,581 annually, including overtime, if they received a paycheck. Women who work a full-time 40 hour a week job could expect an additional $85,939 for the work done at home. Among the jobs the stay-at-home moms reported to Salary.com were day-care center teacher, van ...

3558. A Call for Help

2 Timothy 1:5

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Dennis Marquardt adapted

A woman telephoned a friend and asked how she was feeling, "Terrible," came the reply over the wire, "my head's splitting and my back and legs are killing me. The house is a mess, and the kids are simply driving me crazy." Very sympathetically the caller said, "Listen, go and lie down, I'll come over right away and cook lunch for you, clean up the house, and take care of the children while you get some rest. By the way, how is Sam?" "Sam?" the complaining housewife gasped. "Who is Sam?" "My heavens," ...

3559. A Mother’s Prayer

2 Timothy 1:5

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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 ...

3560. One Day Is Not Enough

2 Timothy 1:5

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While it is wonderful that we set aside one day to especially honor mothers, let us reflect for a moment on all of the things mothers do for us. First of all, they bring us into the world through a biological miracle that is amazing, but certainly not easy. Then they spend the next two decades preparing meals, solving problems, kissing boo-boos, helping us learn everything from how to brush our teeth to how to navigate the difficulties of the "real world." They spend the rest of their lives fretting and ...

3561. My Mother Taught Me…

2 Timothy 1:5

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My mother taught me TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE. "If you're going to kill each other, do it outside. I just finished cleaning." My mother taught me RELIGION. "You better pray that will come out of the carpet." My mother taught me about TIME TRAVEL. "If you don't straighten up, I'm going to knock you into the middle of next week!" My mother taught me LOGIC. "Because I said so, that's why." My mother taught me MORE LOGIC. "If you fall out of that swing and break your neck, you're not going to the store ...

3562. The Writing on the Wall: A Poem for Mother’s Day

2 Timothy 1:5

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A simple poem has been circulating on the Internet by an unknown author. It speaks of unconditional love in a beautiful way: A weary mother returned from the store, Lugging groceries through the kitchen door. Awaiting her arrival was her eight-year-old son, Eager to relay what his younger brother had done. "While I was out playing and Dad was on a call, T.J. took his crayons and wrote on the wall! It's on the new paper you just hung in the den. I told him you'd be mad at having to do it again." She let out ...

3563. Mothers and Father’s Get Short Changed

2 Timothy 1:5

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Mothers and Fathers -- you think you're special? You think you're being honored, having one day out of the year dedicated to you? Consider this: Egg salad gets a whole week. As do pickles, pancakes, pickled peppers, split pea soup, clowns, carpenter ants and aardvarks. Peanut butter (March), chickens (September) and oatmeal (January) each rate an entire month. Mothers and fathers can draw solace from the fact that along with themselves, such national treasures as the rubber eraser and moles also merit only ...

3564. Whose Boy Are You?

2 Tim 1:5; Eph 6:1-4; 2 Ki 4:8-37

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Brett Blair

One of the great preachers of our time is Dr. Fred Craddock. Craddock tells a story about vacationing with his wife one summer in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. One night they found a quiet little restaurant, where they looked forward to a private meal. While they were waiting for their food, they noticed a distinguished looking, white-haired man moving from table to table, visiting with the guests. Craddock leaned over and whispered to his wife, "I hope he doesn't come over here." He didn't want anyone intruding ...

3565. Mother's Can Be Shrewd

2 Tim 1:5; 2 Ki 4:8-37

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Brett Blair

Former president Jimmy Carter spoke at Southern Methodist University and related an incident that occurred after he left the Whitehouse. A woman reporter came to Plains, Georgia, to interview his mother in relation to an article about Mr. Carter and his family. His mother really didn't want to be interviewed, but was being gracious. So when the reporter knocked at her door, Mrs. Carter invited her in. The reporter asked some hard questions and actually was rather aggressive and rude. "I want to ask you a ...

3566. A New Command on Mother's Day

2 Timothy 1:5

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On this day when we're trying to show our loving appreciation for all that love we've received from the special person called "Mom," it is so fitting that we hear Jesus say what he said here in our text: "A new command I give you: Love one another." Actually, Jesus' command to love one another is appropriate for any day of the year, but it does take on special meaning on a day like today since included in that command to love, are those special ladies who brought us into this world and loved us in a way ...

3567. The Trinity - Sermon Starter

John 16:12-15; Matt 28:16-20

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Brett Blair

A preacher proudly boasted that he does not preach doctrinal sermons. They are boring he asserts and people do not understand or relate to them. Further, he claimed, I am a preacher and not a theologian. I get down do the practical issues and simply preach Christ crucified. His thinking is faulty at several points. First, he is wrong when he says that he is not a theologian. The fact is that everyone to a certain extent is a theologian. Theology is nothing more than what you think about God. Well, shouts ...

3568. Tertullian on the Trinity

Matt 28:16-20; John 16:12-25

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Brett Blair

Tertullian, one of the theologians of the early church, explained the Trinity in a metaphor. God the Father he described as "a deep root, the Son as the shoot that breaks forth into the world, and the Spirit as that which spreads beauty and fragrance."

3569. Who, Me?

Matthew 28:16-20

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Billy D. Strayhorn

Unfortunately, most of us act like the out-of shape, overweight man who decided to take up tennis. He took lessons from a pro. He read several self-help books which advised him to "think positively" and "develop a winning attitude." A friend asked him how his tennis was going. With a positive, winning attitude in his voice, the man replied, "When my opponent hits the ball to me, my brain immediately barks out a command to my body: 'Race up to the net.' Then, it says, 'Slam a blistering shot to a far corner ...

3570. Understanding the Trinity

Mt 28:16-20

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King Duncan

This is Trinity Sunday. God in three persons--Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Do we fully understand this wonderful doctrine? No, but some of us will fight for it. You may remember that ancient story about St. Augustine. One day he took a break from writing about the Trinity to take a walk along the seashore. There he came across a child with a little pail, intently scooping up a pail full of water out of the ocean, then walking up the beach and dumping it out into the sand, then going back down to scoop out ...

3571. Who Is this God Anyway?

Matthew 28:16-20

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Gary Shaw

There's a story about an inquisitive 3 year old who was trying to get to the bottom of the mysteries of life. "Mom" he would ask, "who made the stove?" His mom, would respond back, "People made the stove." Not be outsmarted, he would ask, "Well who made the people?" "God made the people" she would reply. This would go on with just about everything. "Daddy who made the TV?" "People made the TV." his father would reply. "Well, who made the people?" "God made the people." And so it went for weeks on end this ...

3572. A Renewal of Faith

Matthew 28:16-20

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Mark Trotter

Christopher Parkening is a concert guitarist. At age 30, he was at the top of his profession. His concert schedule booked years in advance. His CD's were best sellers. And then it all stopped. For three years he just disappeared. He stopped recording. He stopped performing. He said he was burned out. He did what all of us, I think, have been tempted to do from time to time in our life. He just chucked it all and went away. He had resources sufficient enough to buy a little ranch up in Montana, with a trout ...

3573. What to Preach

Matthew 28:16-20

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Johnny Dean

Shortly after I had gone to my pastor and talked with him concerning this vague sense of calling to ministry that I was experiencing, he suggested that I preach while he was on vacation. By doing that, I could get some sense of what preaching was about and perhaps help to determine if that was the direction God was leading me. That sounded reasonable enough, so I agreed. As I thought about that upcoming first venture into the realm of preaching, I asked my pastor, who is now my best friend in spite of the ...

3574. We Have Work to Do

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King Duncan

God accepts us as His own beloved children for Christ's sake. We may not understand why it had to be this way. But we look at the cross and we see there an open door. And thus we remember. We remember those who died that we may live in freedom. We remember those who died that we may live in faith. We remember Christ who died that we may live forever. That's the ultimate meaning of this Memorial Day weekend. It is a time to remember and it is a time to finish what they started. They were shooting the movie ...

3575. For A D-day Memorial - Sermon Starter

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Brett Blair

On our national Mall now sits 7 acres of bronze, granite, and gardens that memorializes the greatest generation, those who fought and died in WWII. Perhaps you've seen it. There are 56 tall pillars that encircle the memorial stand for the states, and districts, territories of our country. When it was dedicated the speakers ranged from General Kelly, Tom Brokaw, who wrote the book The Greatest Generation, Tom hanks who was the spokesman for the memorial, Fred Smith co-chair and Bob Dole chair of the ...

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3551. Qualities Needed In All Moms

2 Timothy 1:5

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Brett Blair

3552. Influence of Mothers

2 Timothy 1:5

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3553. Why God Made Moms…

2 Timothy 1:5

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3554. All Those Preliminaries

2 Timothy 1:5

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3555. Who Am I? – Mother

2 Timothy 1:5

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3556. A Good Mom

2 Timothy 1:5

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Andrew M. Greeley

3557. The Value of the Job - Motherhood

2 Timothy 1:5

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3558. A Call for Help

2 Timothy 1:5

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Dennis Marquardt adapted

3559. A Mother’s Prayer

2 Timothy 1:5

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3560. One Day Is Not Enough

2 Timothy 1:5

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3561. My Mother Taught Me…

2 Timothy 1:5

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3562. The Writing on the Wall: A Poem for Mother’s Day

2 Timothy 1:5

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3563. Mothers and Father’s Get Short Changed

2 Timothy 1:5

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3564. Whose Boy Are You?

2 Tim 1:5; Eph 6:1-4; 2 Ki 4:8-37

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Brett Blair

3565. Mother's Can Be Shrewd

2 Tim 1:5; 2 Ki 4:8-37

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Brett Blair

3566. A New Command on Mother's Day

2 Timothy 1:5

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3567. The Trinity - Sermon Starter

John 16:12-15; Matt 28:16-20

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Brett Blair

3568. Tertullian on the Trinity

Matt 28:16-20; John 16:12-25

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Brett Blair

3569. Who, Me?

Matthew 28:16-20

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Billy D. Strayhorn

3570. Understanding the Trinity

Mt 28:16-20

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King Duncan

3571. Who Is this God Anyway?

Matthew 28:16-20

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Gary Shaw

3572. A Renewal of Faith

Matthew 28:16-20

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Mark Trotter

3573. What to Preach

Matthew 28:16-20

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Johnny Dean

3574. We Have Work to Do

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King Duncan

3575. For A D-day Memorial - Sermon Starter

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Brett Blair

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