Mother’s Day non-sermons

Glen, the AG missionary to the spiritually dead wasteland of Stanford University has post a list of possible mother’s day scriptural references. Use with caution.

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.

1. Psalm 109:14 - may the sin of his mother never be blotted out.
2. Isaiah 50:1 - This is what the LORD says: €œWhere is your mother€™s certificate of divorce with which I sent her away?
3. 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.
4. Hosea 2:2 Rebuke your mother
5. Hosea 4:5 I will destroy your mother
6. 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.
7. Deuteronomy 22:7 You may take the young, but be sure to let the mother go
8. Exodus 23:19 Do not cook a young goat in its mother€™s milk.
9. Job 17:14, CEV: say to the worms, €œHello, mother!€
10. 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.

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