Contributed by David Ward on Jan 23, 2006
The mother of a nine-year-old Kentucky boy named Mark received a phone call in the middle of the afternoon. It was the teacher from her son’s school.
"Mrs. Smith, something unusual happened today in your son’s third grade class. Your son did something that surprised me so much that I thought you
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
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Helen Hayes once said that her mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. Her mother advised her that "achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that’s nice too, but not as important
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Contributed by Manuel Amparo on May 10, 2006
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A mother was asked by a neighbor, “Do you do any literary work?”
“Oh, yes,” replied the mother, “I’m writing two books.”
“What are their titles?” asked the surprised neighbor.
Replied the mother, “John and Mary. My business is to write on the mind and heart of
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Contributed by Sunny Philip on May 16, 2006
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Susanna Wesley was a mother who had gone through much in her life. To begin with, during the first nineteen years of her married life, she gave birth to nineteen children. That turned out to be the least of her problems. Eight of those children died of natural causes and sickness. One child was
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Stephen Ring on Apr 9, 2004
In September of 1982, my Mother passed away very unexpectedly. Through a series of events, I was actually spending the weekend at my parent’s home sick with a stomach flu, in order that my wife would be able to work and get a good night’s sleep. Early on the Sunday morning, my mother had a stroke
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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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Contributed by Martin Kim on Oct 5, 2004
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One evening mother was busy fixing supper. Her little boy came up to her and gave her a piece of paper. She dries her hands on her apron and reads.
For cutting the grass: $5.00 For cleaning up my room this week: $1.00 For going to the store for you: $.50 Baby-sitting my kid brother while
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Adventist
The mother eagle teaches her little ones to fly by making their nest so uncomfortable that they are forced to leave it and commit themselves to the unknown world of air outside. And just so does our God to us. He stirs up our comfortable nests, and pushes us over the edge of them, and we are forced
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Contributed by Dave Mcfadden on Nov 16, 2004
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A mother ran into the bedroom when she heard her seven-year-old son scream. She found his two-year-old sister pulling his hair. She gently released the little girl’s grip and said comfortingly to the boy, "There, there. She didn’t mean it. She doesn’t know that hurts." He nodded his
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Contributed by Timothy Smith on Oct 20, 2006
Tony Campolo relates the time his mother called him and told him that Mrs. Kilpatrick had died. He said, this dear woman, Mrs. Kilpatrick, had lived on his street in W. Philly as he was growing up. She had taken him to museums, concerts, social functions. So, Tony’s mom called and said, "Now, Tony
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Christian Church
Mother Teresa said, “The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the
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Baptist
A little girl asked her mother one Sunday morning as she was preparing lunch, “Mommy, why do you cut off the ends of the ham before you cook it?” The girl’s mother turned and looked at her and said, “Oh, sweetie, I’m not really sure why, but I suppose you cut the ends off of the meat so that the
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007
Births to mothers of 2 or more children rose 4% between ’96 and ’03, 12% since
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Mother Teresa was a 18-year-old Yugoslavian girl named Agnes Bojaxhiu (boy-AX-ee-oo) when she left home to become a nun. Over the next 20 years, she taught middle-class high school students, and was often described by her colleagues as “average.”
She felt God calling her in 1946 to serve India’s
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Episcopal/Anglican
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There’s a story about Mother Teresa telling her superiors that she had five pennies and a dream from God to build an orphanage. Her superiors told her that she couldn’t build an orphanage, or anything else for that matter, with just five
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Episcopal/Anglican
Contributed by Shannon Lewis on Apr 3, 2007
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A mother took her young son shopping. After a day in the stores, a clerk handed the little boy a lollipop. "What do you say?" the mother
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