Contributed by Sermon Central on May 4, 2004
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ACCORDING TO THE NUMBERS
82: Percentage of women ages 40-44 who are mothers (down from
90% in 1976)
4 million: Number of women a year who become mothers (or about 40%
of all births in a year)
25.1: Average age of first-time mothers (a record high, up
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Contributed by Sermon Central on May 4, 2004
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WHAT TO GET MOM
Survey after survey tries to detemine what women really want for Mother’s Day.
According to a survey by Circuit City, less than 5% of mothers surveyed prefer candy. 30% prefer flowers, and almost that many — 27% — want a digital camera.
A survey of new moms by The First
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Contributed by Sermon Central on May 5, 2004
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WHAT DO MOTHERS WANT?
Maggie Gallagher is President of the Institute for Marriage and Public Policy and a co-author of The Case for Marriage.
As an early-forties mom, she is beginning to regret the children that she never had. She always wanted four, but career and life left her with two.
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Contributed by Sermon Central on May 5, 2004
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QUESTIONS ABOUT MOMS
What’s the difference between moms and dads?
~ Moms work at work and work at home, and dads just got to work at work.
~ Moms know how to talk to teachers without scaring them.
~ Dads are taller and stronger, but moms have all the real power ’cause that’s who you gotta ask
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JUST LIKE MOM’S
Cathy Thomas, a former associate at the Orange County Register in Santa Ana, California, is a cooking teacher of considerable repute. She calls herself, however, "no stranger to the gastronomic adventures of Mother’s Day."
Back when it was first in vogue during the 1980s, she
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Contributed by Sermon Central on May 5, 2004
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IN HONOR OF MOTHER’S DAY
Barbara Weiser of Kewanee, Illinois recalls this converstation with her daughter when she was six:
"Mom, there are five things I want to be when I grow up."
"Oh, yeah? What are they?"
"I’m going to be a model, a movie star, a traveler and travel all around the world,
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Contributed by Richard Berry on Jun 21, 2004
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Kenneth Chaflin, a seminary professor who often speaks and writes about building stronger families was home getting ready to eat supper before heading off to a speaking engagement. His 5yr old daughter came and said, “Daddy will you stay home with me tonight?” Her plea pierced his soul. He thought
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Contributed by Jason Wall on Jun 21, 2004
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Since its Father’s Day I would like to share with you two things that you will never hear a man say on Father’s Day. You would never hear a father say to his son, “…here are the keys to my brand new truck, and here is my platinum Master Card… go wild!” And you would never hear a father say to his
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Pb Stetser on Jul 6, 2004
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Dreary Statistics
• 63% of youth suicides are from fatherless homes --U.S. D.H.H.S., Bureau of the Census
• 85% of all children that exhibit behavioral disorders come from fatherless homes --Center for Disease Control
• 80% of rapists motivated with displaced anger come from fatherless homes
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Holiness
Contributed by Donnie Martin on Sep 6, 2004
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Wilhelm Busch once said, “To become a mother is not so difficult; on the other hand, being a mother is very much so!” (Taken from Proclaim, “A Mother’s Day Sermon,” May 14, 1989). Concerning that statement, a preacher asked, “So, with all those qualifications, why bother with Mother’s Day at all?
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Baptist
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In a moment of teenage carelessness, a 16-year- old girl wrecked her mother’s car. She was uninjured, so she called home to tell her parents, fully expecting an angry reaction. Instead, her father asked only about her physical and emotional condition. When he arrived at the accident scene, he
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Joel Vicente on Feb 14, 2005
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Illustrate Fact: In 1907 Ana Jarvis, from Philadelphia, began a campaign to establish a national Mother’s Day. Ms. Jarvis persuaded her mother’s church in Grafton, West Virginia to celebrate Mother’s Day on the second anniversary of her mother’s death, the 2nd Sunday of May. By the next year
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