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Is Mother Goose Dead? - September 27, 2005
"For the word of God is living and active." Hebrews 4:12
The question of the morning was,"Is Mother Goose dead?" My daughter was driving her five-year-old daughter to pre-school. That query was followed up by, "Is she in the cemetery we just passed? Will she be in heaven?" I was laughing as I told her that I couldn't wait to hear her answers.
The "Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes" were first in print in England by the late 1700s. Many of them were politically oriented and veiled as children's poetry. They are around today, and many of us can, no doubt, quote them from memory. I still have the book my mom read to me as a child.
Did you know that the most widely read book in the world isn't nursery rhymes or Aesop's fables, but the Bible? What a wonderful thing that the author of that book is not dead! Although the actual persons who penned it have died, God, who inspired the Bible authors, is very much alive.
The Bible is often called the "Living Word" because it is timeless. The scriptures were applicable and true when they were written down, and they still are applicable and true today. In fact, it is amazing how precisely they relate to our lives today!
Try it: http://www.biblegateway.com
It will make a believer out of you.
Contributed by Sally I. Kennedy
"For the word of God is living and active." Hebrews 4:12
The question of the morning was,"Is Mother Goose dead?" My daughter was driving her five-year-old daughter to pre-school. That query was followed up by, "Is she in the cemetery we just passed? Will she be in heaven?" I was laughing as I told her that I couldn't wait to hear her answers.
The "Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes" were first in print in England by the late 1700s. Many of them were politically oriented and veiled as children's poetry. They are around today, and many of us can, no doubt, quote them from memory. I still have the book my mom read to me as a child.
Did you know that the most widely read book in the world isn't nursery rhymes or Aesop's fables, but the Bible? What a wonderful thing that the author of that book is not dead! Although the actual persons who penned it have died, God, who inspired the Bible authors, is very much alive.
The Bible is often called the "Living Word" because it is timeless. The scriptures were applicable and true when they were written down, and they still are applicable and true today. In fact, it is amazing how precisely they relate to our lives today!
Try it: http://www.biblegateway.com
It will make a believer out of you.
Contributed by Sally I. Kennedy
