Now I’m aware of the fact that it is Mother’s day.  But I’m not going to preach a traditional Mother’s Day sermon.  In the early days of the Methodist Church, as a part of worship, the preacher not only preached a sermon, he usually exhorted the congregation.  An exhortation is different from preaching, so just to let you know I know it is Mother’s Day before I preach I want to exhort you for a moment.  There’s a marvelous verse of scripture in II Timothy, the 1st chapter, the 5th verse.  Paul is writing to Timothy and he says, I often think of that genuine faith of yours, a faith that first appeared in your  grandmother, Lois, then in your mother, Eunice, and is now, I am convinced, in you as well.  I’m convinced that children are not likely to genuinely appropriate the Christian faith fo…