The most important relationship in a family in raising godly children is not the relationship

between the parents and the children, it's the relationship between the mother and the father.

What you communicate to your children by your relationship dominates their thinking.

Welcome to Grace to You, the Bible teaching ministry of John MacArthur.

I'm your host, Phil Johnson.

It's been said that godly mothers write on the hearts of their children what the world's rough hand cannot erase.

That's certainly true of a particular mother in the Bible.

That woman is Hannah.

John MacArthur takes a look at her life story today on Grace to You

as he launches a series with Mother's Day in mind just a few days from now in the United States and Canada.

John's timely study will

look at being a mother who honors the Lord, and it will also dig into the broader issue of being

an excellent wife. The study is titled God's Design for a Successful Woman. Of course, the unique

role that God designed for women is not a universally popular topic,

but the truth is there's great freedom and fulfillment in pursuing the roles that God

designed both for men and for women. So if you have your Bible, turn to 1 Samuel chapter 1 and

follow along as John begins the lesson. If you go back in our history, you can read some very interesting tributes written to mother.

If you happen to pick up some of the things that were written around Mother's Day at various times,

you get an insight into how people felt about motherhood in those days.

I came across an interesting one by a man named W.L. Caldwell, written in 1928.

Listen to what he said about Mother.

Well, may we pause to pay honor to her who, after Jesus Christ, is God's best gift to

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