Sermons, Outlines, Illustrations and Pastor Resources

A Mother's Great Gift by Ernest Easley
You may not know the name Anna Javis ... but she was the first one to suggest having a national observance of an annual day honoring all mothers because she had loved her mother so much... ( read more )

Remembering Mom by Roger Thomas
Was your mom like mine? My mother passed away four years ago after a year-long battle with cancer and five years of loneliness after my father passed away. Mom was the youngest of nearly a dozen children... ( read more )

A Happy Father's Day by Jerry Vines
This is Father's Day. I remind all of the fathers that we take second place on this very special day. The biggest day is not Father's Day, but the biggest day is Mother's Day. You do understand that, don't you?.. ( read more )

A Tribute to Mothers by J. Gerald Harris
We have heard some beautiful tributes to mothers today. Thank God for Christian mothers. John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States, said, "All that I am my mother made me." Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth president of the United States, said, "All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother." ( read more )

Hall of Fame Dads (4 of 4) by Steve N. Wagers
I read recently about a father who passed by his son's bedroom and was astonished to see the bed was nicely made and everything was picked up. Then he saw an envelope propped up prominently on the center of the bed... ( read more )

A Mother's Living Legacy by Doug Tegner
At least this one day a year, we need to stop and consider the Unique and Vital role that God has given to mothers and mothering...especially in our day when scores of voices are shouting for women and mothers to abandon the priority of caring for children with unrushed attention... ( read more )

A Mother's Influence by Brad Whitt
I want you to take your Bible's now this morning and I want you to be finding your place at 2nd Timothy chapter 1 if you would. 2nd Timothy chapter 1, and we're going to be focusing really on one verse this morning, verse number 5, and I want to talk to you for a few minutes here this morning about "A Mother's Influence." ( read more )

A Father's Love by David Cawston
A small boy's definition of Father's Day: "It's just like Mother's Day only you don't spend as much." Definition of a father... "A father is a man who carries pictures in his wallet where his money used to be." Paul Harvey's definition of a father... "A father is a thing that is forced to endure childbirth without an anesthetic.... ( read more )

Father: The Leader of the Band by Adrian Rogers
Take God's Word now and look at it, Psalm one hundred and twenty-eight. Now just keep that in mind and let me tell you that when Mary Magdalene came to the empty tomb that Easter morning, she saw someone... ( read more )

Hall of Fame Parents (6 of 11) by Ken Trivette
As we continue our study of the Ten Commandments we come to a transition in the commandments. As we saw in our first study, the Ten Commandments address two very important relationships in life: our relationship with God and our relationship with man... ( read more )