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                    OPENING ILLUSTRATION… Mother’s Day Background, Pulpit Helps 1991
	It was a woman named Anna M. Jarvis who first suggested the national observance of an annual day honoring all mothers because she had loved her own mother so dearly.  At a memorial service for her mother on May 10, 1908, Miss Jarvis
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 22, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Like the children of Israel in today’s Bible reading, Hannah Hurnard, author of Hinds’ Feet on High Places, was once paralyzed by fear. Then she heard a sermon on scarecrows that challenged her to turn her fear into faith.
     The preacher said, "A wise bird knows that a scarecrow is simply an
                    
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                    Contributed by Bruce Willis on Nov 29, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    I remember an experience early in my life when God began teaching me to learn to listen for His voice and to turn to Him for help.  I was outside playing on a sunny day.  We had a maid, Beulah, who watched over us during the weekdays.  Mother of course had 5 children in 6 years and 9 days, so we
                    
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                    Let’s see what good listeners you are. Each time I say the name "Samuel," you are to jump up and say, "Here I am!" and then lie back down again. 
To begin, direct children to lie down and pretend they’re sleeping.
Samuel (pause while children jump up and down) was a young person who loved God and
                    
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                    Contributed by Derrick Tuper on May 19, 2009
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    HEARING GOD
In his devotional book, "My Utmost For His Highest" Oswald Chambers writes, "Get into the habit of saying, 'Speak, Lord,' and life will become a romance. Every time circumstances press in on you say, 'Speak, Lord,' and make time to listen. Chastening is more than a means of
                    
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                    Contributed by Perry Greene on Dec 2, 2013
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    "A part of me loved war.  Now, please understand, I am a peaceful man, fond of children and animals.  And I believe that war should have no place in the affairs of men.  But, the comradeship our platoon experienced in that war provides a moving and enduring memory in me.  A comrade in war is
                    
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                    Contributed by Loyd C. Taylor on Aug 22, 2023
                
                
                
                    As I looked through the old photo album,
my eyes fixed upon
a picture of Mom in her blue Sunday dress
wearing a soiled, yellow apron.
 
I smiled as, in my mind, I returned.
It seemed like just yesterday,
For I had left on it my small handprints—
From playing in Carolina red clay.
 
Mom had called
                    
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                    In her book, ...A Man Called Peter, ...Catherine Marshall ...tells how her late preacher-husband ...felt a sense of destiny ... a sense of call ...in his life. (Pause)
One dark night, ...Peter, ...then a young man, ...decided to take a Shortcut ...across the Scottish moors.
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