Mother’s Day is an odd Sunday in most churches. Pastors get up and talk about Proverbs 31 or some other predictible text, and then give every lady a rose.
I’m not actually preaching this weekend (Paula is, as it turns out), but if I was I’d be looking for a more unusual angle. For instance, here are some lesser-known verses which touch on the theme of motherhood.
- Psalm 109:14 — may the sin of his mother never be blotted out.
- Isaiah 50:1 — This is what the LORD says: “Where is your mother’s certificate of divorce with which I sent her away?
- Jeremiah 22:26 — I will hurl you and the mother who gave you birth into another country, where neither of you was born, and there you both will die.
- Hosea 2:2 Rebuke your mother
- Hosea 4:5 I will destroy your mother
- Luke 12:53 They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.
- Deuteronomy 22:7 You may take the young, but be sure to let the mother go
- Exodus 23:19 Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.
- Job 17:14, CEV: say to the worms, “Hello, mother!”
- Lev 18:7, MSG She is your mother. Don’t have sex with her.
Maybe Proverbs 31 isn’t such a bad choice after all… 😉
Please note that most of these verses have been horribly wrenched from their context to make them even less appropriate for a mother’s day sermon.
Glen
Should I take offense?
Strange choices! I have never heard them before
Love
Your mother
I’m not surprised–these snippets don’t tend to make it onto many bookmarks or refrigerators.
If I was to ever actually use these verses in a sermon about you, then not only should you be offended, you should hire a professional assassin. 😉
Fortunately, this won’t be coming to any sermons I have anything to do with.
I am preaching this weekend on Mother’s Day–I’m thinking of going with the worms one…
You can use this list to explain why Stanford needs help–they obviously have a defective minister currently assigned there. 😉
pure glentonian!!!!