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FAMILY

It’s Complicated

Mothers

When we think about mothers, some of us have good thoughts. Others, not so much.

Mothers can show us Jesus

Genesis 1:27 (NIV)

So God created humankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.

• 1. A Mother’s Love is Nurturing

3 Ways a Mother’s Love Shows Us Jesus

Isaiah 49:15 (NIV)

“Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you!”

“After a mother has smiled at her child for many days and weeks, she finally receives the child’s smile in

• response. She has

awakened love in the heart of her child.”

Hans Urs van Balthasar

1 John 4:19 (NIV)

We love because he first loved us.

2 Peter 3:9 (NIV)

The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand

• slowness. Instead he is patient with

you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.

• 1. A Mother’s Love is Nurturing
• 2. A Mother’s Love is Protective

3 Ways a Mother’s Love Shows Us Jesus

Matthew 23:37 (NIV)

…how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings…

• 1. A Mother’s Love is Nurturing
• 2. A Mother’s Love is Protective
• 3. A Mother’s Love is Sacrificial

3 Ways a Mother’s Love Shows Us Jesus

1 Thessalonians 5:10 (NIV)

He died for us so that, whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with him.

• 1. A Mother’s Love is Nurturing
• 2. A Mother’s Love is Protective
• 3. A Mother’s Love is Sacrificial

3 Ways a Mother’s Love Shows Us Jesus

Mark 10:29-30 (NIV)

“Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “no

• ne who has left home or brothers or

sisters or mother or father or children

• r fields for me and the gospel will

fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age: homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields.”

Mothers