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Mother’s Day May 10th, 2026

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Sunday is Mother’s Day and we will celebrate the mothers in our lives. For many of us motherhood has a positive connotation: you have a good mother or being a mother has been a major source of blessing for you. I also realize Mother’s Day does not have positive feelings for everyone attending our services on Sunday, and for that I am sorry. Mothers are given to us from God to be a source of blessing and the backbone of a healthy society. Whether motherhood evokes positive or negative feelings, society needs to recognize the value mothers are intended to have for all of us. 

Motherhood and womanhood in general have always been under some kind of attack, and our current times are not different. In the extreme feminist movement motherhood is viewed as an impediment for a woman in achieving her greatest success. The recent confusion of gender has been most acutely directed toward women. Biological men assuming the identity of a woman is a horrible affront to the importance of biological women in our society. The ancient text of Proverbs provides a counter cultural depiction of women and in particular, mothers.

The teaching and training of children is the critical function of the family unit for the propagation of a healthy society. History has shown us governments make for bad parents and don’t even come close to replicating the effectiveness of a husband and wife – a father and mother raising children together. In our text on Sunday, we will see the needed partnership of a father and mother sharing roles and responsibilities of shaping the next generation. Because it is Mother’s Day, we will emphasize the importance of mothers to care for and influence their children in a way that reflects God’s design for humans. Not only is God honored when we acknowledge the value of our mothers, humankind will prosper because mothers are the backbone to a healthy society. 

Mother’s Day – May 12th, 2024

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Sunday is Mother’s Day, and we plan to celebrate the mothers in our lives!  If you are a mother, thank you for the sacrifices you make to bring new life into the world and for the ways you have helped shape that new life. Mother’s, you fill an essential role in our society, and we praise God for you. All of us are born from mothers, and Sunday is an opportunity to give thanks for those people that brought us into this world and helped shape us to be who we are today. On a personal note, I am very grateful for the mothers in my life: My mother was a loving person who was devoted to serving God and serving her family; For Sue, the mother of our children who continues to lovingly support and care for them; For my daughter Katie, the mother of my four grandchildren, who has sacrificed so much for her children. 

On this Mother’s Day we want to recognize the worth of all women in our lives. Historically our society has not treated women with the respect they deserve. Most cultures around the globe and throughout time have considered women as holding a second-place status compared to men. It wasn’t that long ago that women could not vote in this country. While a woman’s role has come a long way in recent years, society continues to find new ways to devalue the worth of women. Rather than celebrate and support the essential and unique role women play in giving birth to children, society is trying to make them as unpregnant as men are. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that if we don’t continue to give birth to children, humanity is only one or two generations away from collapse. In an attempt to satisfy those that would want to create something that is against the natural order of things (this is one area where evolution and creation can agree) the worth of a woman is being diminished as the differences between women and men are being exploited.

In Proverbs 31 King Lemuel records for us the women of noble character, and in those words we will discover the Worth of a Woman. It is important to see that when this chapter was written some 3000 years ago it was in the backdrop of a society that generally treated women as objects of very low value. Sadly, society today is finding new and creative ways to devalue women, which makes this chapter still very relevant. Join me this Sunday as we discover the Worth of a Woman.