This CrossPoint Church service centers around a Mother's Day theme, incorporating worship music, prayer, and messages focused on faith, family, and the role of mothers. The service also includes announcements and a short video highlighting a ministry to teen mothers.
Here's a transcript of Katie Kenigo's sermon from the provided transcript. Note that some minor variations in capitalization and punctuation may exist due to the limitations of the original transcript.
"good morning Motherhood is such a unique role in time In the blink of an eye you go from begging your sweet babe to say mama to your toddler screaming mom and it's going to like make your ears bleed and then all of a sudden you're responding to brah and you're like where did that come from but it happens One moment you are their sole source of nourishment and safety and then the next moment it feels like am I just like a taxi driver an ATM i thought that I knew everything about being a mom and um then I actually became one and I find out just every year just how much I don't actually know Each year brings new joys new trials in new ways Our children humble us I recently had this happen with my four-year-old Um she looked up at me with her big sweet brown eyes and she goes "Mommy why don't you come to school like the other moms do?" And my heart was just so crushed And I'm like "How do I explain child care and you know the nuances of life to her?" And I just said "Baby girl I promise I will try to by the end of the year come." And she goes "Okay." Okay And immediately she goes "Can you just not wear your hair up like that and can you wear a nicer shirt?" Yes my sweet girl I will take a shower and get dressed Humbling indeed As I look back and I consider the early years of motherhood I recognize there were some very big and deeprooted lies that I believed I It's almost as if I were living life without my glasses existing in the role of motherhood but not thriving It's through the lens of scripture It's through the gospel It's through choosing Jesus to be my center and a heart of surrender that these lies were rewritten and overcome in my soul Through the words these these words I'm about to read Romans 12:1 and2 are from Paul but I echo his appeal And I hope you um these may be the words your heart is longing for as they are mine Romans 12:1 and2 Therefore I urge you brothers and sisters in view of God's mercy to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice um holy and pleasing to God This is your true and proper worship And ESV translation actually says "This is your spiritual act of worship Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is His good pleasing and perfect will Friends I'm about to open up my journal to you And so I just ask that um as I lay these things out that that you be gentle with me The first lie that I believed is that my circumstances dictate my relationship with Jesus and more time is the solution So I'm going to go through three lies with you this morning I kept thinking that time would fix my problems and I would magically have a deeper and more fulfilling relationship with Jesus once I was on the other side of the hurdle I was facing I would say things often like I just need to get through fill in the blank and then I can breathe I will pursue Jesus once my babies are sleeping through the night and I'm not so tired Our f family will have time for Jesus once the sports season is over If you have children in school you may be whispering this to yourself The weight of May is heavy Let me just get through this month of chaos Then I could get back into a routine with Jesus But friends the next hurdle we face is right around the corner Business doesn't make itself disappear In other words we must take our current circumstances and seek him in the midst of our day-to-day actions We must rearrange everything to center around Jesus and not believe the lie that when our circumstances change we can be free and have a relationship we desire with him More time is not the solution If we had a 24 or I'm sorry a 28 hour work day or day we wouldn't magically have four more hours we would spend for devotions and memorizing scripture and praying Many of us would work or clean or go on Netflix We must surrender our thoughts and focus in the midst of our uncertainty In the midst of collic babies crying toddlers clinging children disobeying and teenage hormones For this lie to be broken in my soul it takes surrendering my life to Jesus and centering it around him instead of treating Jesus as a to-do list Another thing to get done Please notice this isn't past tense it's present tense because it's something that's dayby day moment by moment choice The incredible thing is that the more I acknowledge Jesus in all my ways the more my the gaze of my heart is turned towards him the more I see him in the beautiful path that he has paved for me As in the scripture Romans 12 confirmed my very mind is being transformed And friends it is available to you not when your kids are all in school and not when they've moved out of the house but today All right the second lie My relationship with Jesus and life must look like everyone around me Oh friends hear this word comparison is a harsh taskmaster It is not your friend A friend was talking about her personal time with Jesus and she told me that she had at least 45 minutes she had to spend every morning with him and she preferred more And at the time she spoke these words "I couldn't get a minute to go to the bathroom alone without these like tiny fingers sticking under the door and kids banging on the wall that the world was ending I felt embarrassed and full of shame at what little I had to give to Jesus In the middle of waking up with kids throughout the night in the morning I would choose sleep over daily devotions And often it felt like my prayer life was as I was army crawling out of my kids' rooms Please Jesus let them sleep Let them sleep Friend if you are in this season I just want to speak grace and peace over you We have an enemy who wants to shame and belittle you And as I said in the first lie that I believed God wants to be with you now It doesn't need to look like the beautiful soul next to you You were uniquely made Three years ago I learned at our women's retreat that I could wash dishes with Jesus Time with Jesus wasn't restricted to a specific Bible study or daily devotion time limit My relationship with Jesus isn't going to look like anyone else in this room because we were all uniquely made and we have unique friendships with him For some you might be new acquaintances with Jesus You're just getting to know him For others you may be deeply deeply sewn into him So much so that your very thinking is transforming and walking with Jesus Wherever you are I just yearn to encourage you to keep seeking him Seek him when doing dishes Seek him in his word Seek him in the quiet moments of the shower In the loud moments of the carpool line with the kids in the back screaming Seek him and you will find him What a beautiful thing it is that when you seek him and surrender your thoughts you to the Lord you are living your life as a living sacrifice And guys that scripture I just read it calls it a holy and pleasing to God We can be holy and pleasing to God How incredible is that the first part of the lie I believed was that my relationship had to look like others The second part is that I believed my life had to look like others Friend this lie shackled me to the ground and it harmed me in ways that I'm still surprised by I was so easily and completely deceived in my pursuit of conforming to the pattern of this world I wanted the things everyone had I wanted the giftings others had I wanted the relationships others had Goodness friends I was so focused on what I wanted that I didn't see who I had and that is our sweet Jesus God graciously and kindly revealed to me how my greed and envy was rooted in my phone Now before I tell you this journey I have been on with Jesus I want to remind you that our relationships look different And so what I'm about to share is not an area of shaming or belittling but I want to encourage you to be transformed by the renewing of your mind with Jesus And that may look different than me or it might look similar but I just ask that you do it with him So for me I knew that my relationship with my phone had to change I deleted all social media apps I turned off all notifications on every single thing except texting and calling And that's easily turned off by the focus feature But while I occasionally still use social media friends these apps they no longer control me Talking about a taskmaster they they have no no control on me I no longer scroll And I cannot tell you how free it has made me My heart is lighter I don't know how tight the chains of comparison judging and envy were around my heart but they were bad When I needed comfort I didn't seek the God of comfort I scrolled When I was longing for change I saw what others had So I over spent When I felt lonely I would check notifications and comments And I often was left feeling more lonely And for me I had to physically remove these things out of my life and find my satisfaction in the story that God was writing for me in that moment not in who social media said I should want to be To break this lie deleting all of the things were not enough I also have to choose to realign my desires of my heart to Jesus and not what others think about me And once again this is a present tense This is not a past tense I have to surrender what others think of me my desire to please others and trust the story that God is writing for me instead of longing for the story he is writing for someone else You will never be satisfied in time spent on your phone It's made to want more It's made for you to yearn for more But I will tell you you will be satisfied and nourished in time spent with Jesus This third lie is being a good Christian mom means I must do all the things be all the things for all the people I have placed an unhealthy and unrealistic expectation on myself in this area of being the person to always say yes to all the things And even deeper rooted is finding my identity and my self-worth in what I do not who I belong to My mom passed away a couple months ago from a several year battle with renal cancer And friends this is raw and not polished But I hope in sharing this with you you will see my heart in urging you to be to surrender your doing and your to-do list and simply be with Jesus During the last couple months of mom's battle with cancer I took over managing her medical care I was connected to her my chart to her doctors the social worker tracking all the things doing all the things I was in do mode aka control mode And I I loved the control aspect of it Even in my mom's last 24 hours when we knew that this was our last time with her friends I was in do mode I thought someone had to so I took it on my shoulders But the honest truth is that there was part of me that loved that control that I didn't know the time my mom was going to die but I knew I could control her control her care So I tried to Others you know offered to help but I was like "No I I I got this." And my friends and my family they were wisely in be mode with my mom They sat with her They mourned her They enjoyed her and all I could do is think about all the things that needed to be done God was so gracious to me friends because he is so kind I had a few hours with her with no one else there right before she passed away And there was nothing left to be done And I finally found my heart shifting from due mode to simply being with her mode And friends I will always cherish that time because we're being in her presence was was enough And I think about that parallel with Jesus that sometimes I'm in do mode in my relationship with him I had to and still have to learn the beauty of still being simply being with Jesus What amazes me is that like I said earlier we can be with God while we are doing dishes I could have welcomed Jesus into my mom's medical care instead of trying to control it That is the heart shift and area of surrender to break this lie Sometimes it means cutting things out and sometimes it means simply doing less But often it means learning how to be with Jesus and see his see every task as a chance to be with him and offer your heart as a living sacrifice When we do that all of our tasks become little ways to love Jesus and be loved by him As awkward as it is to say this I had to surrender that I am not God I am human I was not created to do all the things for everyone and neither were you I was created to walk with God and to be with him in every moment no matter how menial the task may feel Doing dishes to f folding clothes and changing diapers to teaching our children how to be a friend to how to pray and how to tie their shoes This can all be done with Jesus It can be transformed tasks that need to be done to times to intentionally be with Jesus and little ways of loving him and being loved by him"
