Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Home Is Where Your Mom Is: Spiritual Thoughts For Mothers
    Home Is Where Your Mom Is: Spiritual Thoughts For Mothers
    Home Is Where Your Mom Is: Spiritual Thoughts For Mothers
    Ebook48 pages40 minutes

    Home Is Where Your Mom Is: Spiritual Thoughts For Mothers

    By James W. Moore

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    It is impossible to overstate the importance of solid homes and strong families. In this book, popular author James W. Moore shares inspiring thoughts and stories about mothers—the love they give, the character and faith they inspire in us, and the invaluable role they play in a nurturing Christian home as they help us to grow in mind, body, and spirit.


    Chapters include “A Mother’s Love,” “This Little Light of Mine, I’m Gonna Let It Shine,” “What Our Children Teach Us,” and others.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAbingdon Press
    Release dateMar 1, 2013
    ISBN9781426770906
    Home Is Where Your Mom Is: Spiritual Thoughts For Mothers
    Author

    James W. Moore

    James W. Moore (1938–2019) was an acclaimed pastor and ordained elder in The United Methodist Church. He led congregations in Jackson, TN; Shreveport, LA; and Houston, TX. The best-selling author of over 40 books, including Yes, Lord, I Have Sinned, But I Have Several Excellent Excuses, he also served as minister-in-residence at Highland Park United Methodist Church.

    Read more from James W. Moore

    Related to Home Is Where Your Mom Is

    Related ebooks

    Christianity For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      The Ultimate Gift

      May 23, 2023

      The Ultimate Gift
      4 min read

    • Article

      60 Seconds That Changed My Life

      Feb 5, 2023

      DATE: December 2D, 1999, 8:15pm EVENT: Writer and broadcaster BENJAMIN LAW comes out to his mum about his sexuality. I GREW UP on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, the last mainland state in Australia to decriminalise homosexuality. That meant for a

      3 min read

    • Article

      60 Seconds That Changed My Life

      Feb 5, 2023

      DATE: December 2D, 1999, 8:15pm EVENT: Writer and broadcaster BENJAMIN LAW comes out to his mum about his sexuality. I GREW UP on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, the last mainland state in Australia to decriminalise homosexuality. That meant for a

      3 min read

    • Article

      By Rick Bannister

      Feb 1, 2018

      By Rick Bannister
      3 min read

    • Article

      Family Ties

      May 2, 2021

      Family Ties
      4 min read

    • Article

      Three Poems

      Jul 1, 2022

      one morning on her way the wife felt somethingnipping at her ankle. She bent to the dirt paththrough the dry grass between her husband’shouse and the city where she once lived. Andthere it was, a little fault, all alone and nippy.Whose fault are you,

      5 min read

    • Article

      Meet the MODERN GRANNIES

      Oct 6, 2020

      Meet the MODERN GRANNIES
      4 min read

    • Article

      Cool Dads: Tough Times Edition

      Jul 3, 2022

      Cool Dads: Tough Times Edition
      7 min read

    • Article

      When Your Dad Gets Locked Up—And Then Deported

      May 11, 2018

      I crossed the border from Mexico with my parents when I was 6 years old. I remember walking for a day and a half and wading through a river. I remember sitting on my dad’s shoulders, feeling his skin peeling and blistering. In Mexico, we had worked

      5 min read

    • Article

      We Asked, You Answered: Have You Taught Your Children To Run Errands On Their Own?

      Apr 30, 2022

      Nearly 100 NPR readers gave their views on encouraging kids to do tasks on their own at home and in the community. Some are opposed to the practice for safety reasons. Others shared personal stories.

      6 min read

    • Article

      Queen Of Common Sense.

      Dec 10, 2020

      Queen Of Common Sense.
      9 min read

    • Article

      Meet the MODERN GRANNY

      Jun 4, 2020

      Meet the MODERN GRANNY
      6 min read

    • Article

      THE greatest LOVE

      Oct 21, 2021

      THE greatest LOVE
      10 min read

    • Article

      Perfect Casting

      Jul 11, 2019

      Perfect Casting
      5 min read

    • Article

      Why Mothers Are the Unsung Heroes of Prison

      May 10, 2019

      “I’ve seen disasters averted, even a gang war set aside because of these simple words: 'What would your mother think?'”

      4 min read

    • Article

      Letters

      Apr 23, 2021

      I’M WRITING this the morning after a sleepless night. I was up thinking of the flames racing across Table Mountain. It had destroyed historic buildings, priceless documents and parts of one of SA’s most famous universities. It also resulted in the in

      3 min read

    • Article

      Becoming an ADULT ORPHAN

      Jun 23, 2020

      Taking a photograph of my two daughters grinning into the camera as they sit together on the sofa, a moment of sadness washed over me. I would love nothing more than to send the photo to my mum and dad, to show them how much their grandchildren, Izab

      4 min read

    • Article

      Jay Blades

      Mar 8, 2021

      Jay Blades
      5 min read

    • Article

      Mother Knows Best

      Mar 12, 2021

      In honour of Mother’s Day this month, we asked moms to tell us about their favourite piece of advice from their own mother. What we got back was tremendously varied but with this common thread: all wise, and all said with much love. My mother alway

      4 min read

    • Article

      How To Care For Older People In The Pandemic (And A Printable Guide!)

      Sep 4, 2020

      Three experts share advice on how to help the older people in our lives — parents, grandparents, neighbors, relatives, friends — feel comfortable and safe in the pandemic.

      5 min read

    • Article

      The Words That Stick

      Mar 14, 2023

      The Words That Stick
      9 min read

    • Article

      Spilt Milk

      Nov 4, 2019

      Spilt Milk
      10 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Home Is Where Your Mom Is

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Home Is Where Your Mom Is - James W. Moore

      INTRODUCTION

      IT’S BECAUSE SHE’S A MOTHER

      Mark 7:24-30

      Let me begin by stringing together three illustrations. See if you can find the common thread that links them together.

      ILLUSTRATION NUMBER ONE

      His name was Mel. He was reflecting about his mom and how she had brought him up, and he said these words:

      You know, my granddaughters talk now about needing their privacy and how they have a right to keep secrets in their room. Maybe so, but I sure didn’t have that right. My mom used to go in my room daily, and I know she pulled out every drawer in my dresser to see if I was up to anything she didn’t like.

      In those times . . . parents kept up better on what was going on with their kids. I don’t know that they loved their children more than parents do now, but they did seem to stay better informed. . . . If something was wrong they knew it when I walked in the door.

      ILLUSTRATION NUMBER TWO

      I received an e-mail last May, just a few days before Mother’s Day, with the poem The Meanest Mother in the World.

      I had the meanest mother in the world!

      While other kids ate candy for breakfast, I had to have cereal, eggs and toast. When others had Coke and candy for lunch, I had to eat a sandwich. As you can guess, my dinner was different from other kids’ too.

      My mother insisted on knowing where we were all the time. You’d think we were on a chain gang. She had to know who our friends were and what we were doing. . . .

      I am ashamed to admit it, but she actually had the nerve to break the child labor law—she made us work. We had to wash dishes, make beds, learn to cook, and all sorts of odd things. I believe she lay awake nights thinking of mean things to do to us. She always insisted on us telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

      By the time we were teenagers, she was much wiser, and our lives at home became even more unbearable. None of this tooting the car horn for us to come running. She embarrassed us to no end by making our friends and dates come to the door to get us.

      I forgot to mention that while my friends were dating at the mature age of twelve or thirteen, my old-fashioned mother refused to let me date until I was fifteen or sixteen. She even made us go to church with her and dad.

      My mother was a complete failure as a mother. None of us has ever been arrested. Each of my five brothers has served in the military service of this country. And who do we have to thank for this terrible way we turned out? You’re right. Our mean mother!

      Look at all the things we missed. . . . She made us grow up into God-fearing, educated, honest adults. I am trying to raise my children and stand a little taller, and I am filled with pride when my children call me mean.

      You see, thank God, he gave me the meanest mother in the world—from this I would say the country doesn’t need a good 5 cent cigar, it needs more mean mothers and dads.

      ILLUSTRATION

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1