Sermon for Mother’s Day, 2010. Proverbs 6:20-24<\/p>\n
SURPASSING SENTIMENTALITY
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I. Mother’s Day sermons are hard.
\n A. Most pastors struggle with this one.
\n B. Emotional minefields.
\n C. A bigger problem is that Mother’s may can be too trite.<\/p>\n
II. What mothers want.
\n A. Gifts can be nice.
\n B. Most moms want to do it right.
\n C. The reality always seems to fall short.<\/p>\n
III. Mother’s Day has roots in serious stuff.
\n A. Consider the origins of America’s Mother’s Day.
\n B. Mother’s Day should be about more than sentimentalism.<\/p>\n
IV. How do you stack up as a Bible mom?
\n A. Motherhood has more expectations for Christians.
\n B. You need to be committed for the long haul.<\/p>\n
V. Motherhood will have its reward.
\n A. It just might not be what you think it is.
\n B. It can be more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sermon for Mother’s Day, 2010. Proverbs 6:20-24 SURPASSING SENTIMENTALITY ========================= I. Mother’s Day sermons are hard. A. Most pastors struggle with this one. B. Emotional minefields. C. A bigger problem is that Mother’s may can be too trite. II. What mothers want. A. Gifts can be nice. B. Most moms want to do it right. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1255,848,847,232],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7486"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}