Bible Verse for Sunday Service May 11, 2025
Proverbs 31:29-30
Many women have done excellently,
but you surpass them all.
Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain,
but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.
Announcements:
Happy Mother’s Day! We want to say thank you to all the mothers, and most of all good thanks to God for the place. Our mothers have had in our lives. May this day be special to you because you are special to us! We want all the moms to take home a coronation today.
Appliances Available: the church kitchen is being updated with new appliances, so that means we need to find homes for the old ones. There is a refrigerator, a stove and a dishwasher available to anyone who would want them. Let Phil or Pat know if you’re interested or know someone who would be.
Shepherd High School Graduation, May 18 @ 11 AM: We have been invited to the graduation and open house of Sophia Hofer. Her open house will be May 17 at 5 PM at the Hofer’s home. They live at 8126 Wade St. in Shepherd.
VBS Workers Meeting May 21 at 6:30 PM: we will have just one meeting to get organized for VBS, so this is an important meeting to attend. Let Natasha know if you can serve in our VBS will help out in anyway.
VBS Needs: we are still needing people to serve us leaders and help us during our VBS. Especially need a group leader for 4th to 6th grade group, as well as some individuals to help with games.
Men’s coffee and Prayer: Jim Rooney has invited us to his home for a time of coffee, fellowship and prayer. There have been several who have been meeting Friday morning at 9:30, but those times can be flexible. Let Jimmy Sutton know when the best time would be if you would like to join them.
Special May 11, 2025 Mother’s Day:
For several weeks, Bree Hofer worked with the children during service to create a special for Mother’s Day. She also solicited photographs of mothers with their children. Today, we saw the fruit of that work. Service opened with a wonderful special, the children from the the church singing while we watched the slide show. What a treat. I apologize for not getting the production centered at the start. You can see this at Rumble, or watch it below:
Sermon:
For Mother’s Day, Pastor gave a topical sermon in honor of the mothers. He preached on Proverbs 31:29-30 in a sermon titled “Contrasting Mothers.” To set the stage for his sermon, Pastor introduced the idea of skills in living life. Wisdom could be considered a skill to become successful. An example of another skill that helps with living life would be relations skills to get along well with others. It is obvious skills are needed to do well in life. So, where are they found? In the Bible. To transition to the applicability to our mothers, Pastor asked us to consider a construction project. That project would entail an architect to provide a blue print, the construction to build the building. Pastor explored his analogy in two points.
Firstly, taking his topic from the Bible, Pastor observed that a wise woman builds her house, her home. From his analogy, in building, the architect is God, and the blueprint is the Bible. The mother is the builder. The foundation for this house is laid through adherence to Biblical principles. This idea is echoed in the New Testament where Jesus instructs the wise to build on solid rock, not sand.
To extend this analogy, what materials would a wise women use? Further Bible quotes provide the answer. By wisdom a house is built, and also by understanding and knowledge. To succeed then a mother finds that good source of knowledge and counsel.
Elaborating on this first point, Pastor pointed out that all of this work, hard work. A good wife is therefore a hard and noble worker. Pastor remarked it is certainly hard work to raise a family. To succeed then, make sure you are following God’s Plan
In his second point, Pastor contrasted the wise mother with a foolish one, one who destroys her house. For an illustration, Pastor used an unusual example, the Ostrich. The mother bird lays her eggs in the sand, and doesn’t protect them like other birds. Consequently, the eggs maybe destroyed by predators, or even simply destroyed by accident.
In failed homes with mothers, Pastor observed a tragic tendency of neglect. Usually in these broken or non-functional homes, you see some essential aspects of family life neglected. Sometimes this takes the form of rules, perhaps harsh without relationship. Generally, this results in rebellion. Our time as parents is fleeting. Pastor admonished us not to neglect our family.
To conclude, Pastor reminded us to think about these words. Would we purpose to support our family by putting the Lord first? We should purpose to build our homes on His plan?
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