SermonStudio
A Wonderful Mother (-In-Law)
Stories
Lectionary Tales for the Pulpit
Series VI, Cycle B
You have heard the classic definition of mixed emotions: watching your mother-in-law drive off a cliff in your new Rolls Royce. One preacher exhorted his congregation at offering time to "give as if you're giving to send your mother-in-law back home." It is an old problem. Even in ancient Rome, the writer, Juvenal, said, "Domestic concord is impossible as long as the mother-in-law lives." Well, none of that is really fair. There are lots of genuinely terrific mothers-in-law.

