CD 1718 Happy Mother's Day 2025 AM Service

44CD 1718 Happy Mother's Day 2025 AM Service 

May 11, 2025

In a story about some of the worst Mother’s Day gifts ever given, the Houston Chronicle reported a story about Jerry Maltz giving his wife an iron. He got the message when she gave him an ironing board for Father’s Day.

Source: Houston Chronicle, May 7, 2013 - By Alyson Ward,Staff Writer

For some this is a very hard time, so let’s be comforted by the Word of the Lord: 

*Revelation 21:4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

In the New Heaven and New Earth the Lord has prepared for us there will be full satisfaction, peace with rest! Now for our opening text please:

*Text: Luke 2:21-24 & 41-52 -

We're going to look it 3 simple things today:

#1 Mother's Responsibility to Children 

#2 Children's Responsibility to Mothers, Parents

#3 Being a Spiritual Mother 

*Read John 2:1-11 -

*Read John 19:25-27 -

*Read Titus 2:1 & 3-5 -

Closing Illustration: She Gave Her Life for Her Son

When the California gold fever broke out, a man went there, leaving his wife in New England with his boy. As soon as he got on and was successful he was to send for them. It was a long time before he succeeded, but at last he got money enough to send for them. The wife’s heart leaped for joy. She took her boy to New York, got on board a Pacific steamer, and sailed away to San Francisco.

They had not been long at sea before the cry of “Fire! fire!” rang through the ship, and rapidly it gained on them. There was a powder magazine on board, and the captain knew the moment the fire reached the powder, every man, woman, and child must perish.

They got out the life-boats, but they were too small! In a minute they were overcrowded. The last one was just pushing away, when the mother pled with them to take her and her boy. “No,” they said, “we have got as many as we can hold.” She entreated them so earnestly, that at last they said they would take one more. Do you think she leaped into that boat and left her boy to die? No! She seized her boy, gave him one last hug, kissed him, and dropped him over into the boat. “My boy,” she said, “if you live to see your father, tell him that I died in your place.”

That is a faint picture of what Christ has done for us. He laid down his life for us. He died that we might live. Now will you not love Him? What would you say of that young man if he should speak contemptuously of such a mother! She went down to a watery grave to save her son. Well, shall we speak contemptuously of such a Saviour? May God make us loyal to Christ!

Source: Anecdotes and Illustrations of D. L. Moody, D. L. Moody