Mother's Day Worship Service

Can I just tell you for a minute here? If we accept each other just like Christ accept us, there'll be enough love to go around because if the truth be told, that is speaking directly to a mother's love. A mother accepts you despite of you. She loves you despite of you. She connects with you despite of you. She'll hold you despite of you. She'll pray for you despite of you. She she would do everything that she has to do to keep, cover, and protect you. [00:43:34] (36 seconds)  #AcceptLikeAMother

If you read Romans chapter 15, you will find out that that that Paul was writing to strong believers, weak believers, Jews, Gentiles, people with varying different backgrounds, different traditions, different experiences, different levels of spiritual maturity. In other words, just like a mother, Paul was able to cover every single thing that maybe going on. But I must tell you what Paul is saying here is that the church must be built and act like Christ. The church must show us Christ like love. [00:42:41] (42 seconds)  #ChurchLikeChrist

Some of us are here today because we had a praying mother. Some of us are here today because we had a sacrificing mother. Some of us graduated from schools because we had a pushing mother. Some of us can stand today because even when our mothers were grieving, they were praying. And they comforted us through sorrow, sickness, and sadness. Some of us made it through trouble because our mother wouldn't stop calling on the name of the lord. And yet, some of us have had complicated relationships with our mothers but today, we are still standing because through it all, our mother had joy. [00:38:37] (60 seconds)  #PrayingMothersSustain

you just like Christ does. Love says you're welcome to come into my space just like Christ does. Love makes room for you just like Christ did. Paul does not accept one another just as the church culture. He accepted us just like Christ did because he wanted us to understand that Christ is the motto of what we ought to do to welcome folks in. And I see that in mothers because they hold their arms out. They want you to come sit beneath their arms. They want they want you to lean on to them and they want to put their arms around you and hug you and and that's what I think about my mother. I think about how Christ puts his arms around and wraps you in his arms so that songwriter could sit in his arms, there is peace. [01:01:23] (48 seconds)  #MakeRoomLikeChrist

They loved you despite of who you were. Even when folks say you just bad and don't know how to act, they still loved you and they still had a mindset to build a relationship with you and and so that you knew that they loved you and that you could come talk to them about anything. It wasn't just the walnuts, the socks, and the underwear, and the brown paper bag for Christmas. It wasn't just the apples and the oranges. It it wasn't just the pieces of candy. It was a godly love that they had for you despite of even your failings because every single mother that I've been that I've ever been around has found a way to encourage me to seek the lord. Yes. [00:58:23] (47 seconds)  #LoveDespiteFailings

Those are the mindsets that we need to get from mothers because mothers will make us understand that that that Christ himself mindset was he he humbled himself. He served. He sacrificed. He came near. He made room. He loved people who are overlooked, left out, and laughed at. But I want to tell you something. We know their story. We know their pain. But the truth of the matter is every single time I think about a mother's love, I think about Jesus. [00:59:20] (32 seconds)  #MothersReflectChrist

I can still hear one of the shows where the mother would say, he's still my child. He still he still got some good in him. When the world has cast you out and pushed you aside, a mother will remind the folks there's still some good in him. There's still something that can be saved. There's still something that is salvageable. But when we think about this text, we have to think about it from a mother's love. Mothers remember you and they are following up on you. [00:45:07] (37 seconds)  #MomsSeeTheGood

Y'all hear me talking about all the time. Miss Yarbrough, I don't know how she attached herself to me other than god had a plan for me and he used her as a vessel or a vehicle to get me to where I'm at and miss Yarbrough did everything she knew how to do. She called, she text, she hovered over, she came to see about me, she's reminded me in church that I need to do more, she pushed me, She prodded me and she wanted me to know that god had something for me. [00:51:05] (35 seconds)  #ChurchMothersMatter