1. What my mother taught me
“You’d better pray that stain will
come out of the carpet”
“Make sure you wear clean underwear,
in case you’re in an accident”
2. What my mother taught me
“Look at that dirt on the back of your neck!”
“Your room looks as if a tornado just
went through it”
“Just wait until your father gets home”
3. What my mother taught me
’If you fall off that wall and break your leg,
don’t come running to me”
Your ears are so dirty, you could grow a
peck of spuds in them”
4. Jesus was part of a human family
"Isn't this the carpenter's son?
Isn't his mother's name Mary,
and aren't his brothers James, Joseph,
Simon and Judas?
Aren't all his sisters with us?”
Matt 13:55-56a
6. God describes Himself as …
A mother at the point of childbirth
“For a long time I have kept silent, I have
been quiet and held myself back.
But now, like a woman in childbirth,
I cry out, I gasp and pant
Isaiah 42:14
7. God describes Himself as …
A mother at the point of childbirth
You deserted the Rock, who fathered you;
forgot the God who gave you birth
Deut 32:18
8. God describes Himself as …
A mother at the point of childbirth
“Why have you brought this trouble on your
servant? What have I done to displease you that you
put the burden of all these people on me? Did I
conceive all these people? Did I give them birth?
Why do you tell me to carry them in my arms, as a
nurse carries an infant …”
Num 11:11-12
9. God describes Himself as …
A mother who comforts the child she nurses
“The Lord has forsaken me, the Lord has forgotten
me.” “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!
See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands
Isaiah 49:14-16a
10. God describes Himself as …
A mother who comforts the child she nurses
As a mother comforts her child,
so I will comfort you;
you shall be comforted in Jerusalem
Isaiah 66:13
11. God describes Himself as …
A mother who protects her child
“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the
prophets and stones God’s messengers!
How often I have wanted to gather your
children together as a hen protects her chicks
beneath her wings, but you wouldn’t let me
Matt 23:37
12. God describes Himself as …
An eagle
As an eagle stirreth up her nest,
fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad
her wings, taketh them,
beareth them on her wings
Deut 32:11 (KJV)
13. God describes Himself as …
An eagle
As an eagle stirs up its nest, and hovers over
its young; as it spreads its wings, and bears
them aloft on its pinions
Deut 32:11 (NIV)
14. Be imitators of God
When we care for, nurture and
protect those who are more
vulnerable in our church family
we are reflecting the
Mother side of God
15. Paul deals with the Thessalonian
believers as a caring mother
even though as apostles of Christ we could
have asserted our authority.
Instead, we were ‘gentle’ among you.
Just as a nursing mother cares for her
children, so we cared for you
1 Thess 2:6-8a
