My hope today is to encourage some of you homemakers who feel overwhelmed when it comes to the care of your home. I'm still a learner even after 35 years and I hope you will always consider yourselves learners. What I'm sharing with you are tasks and routines that have worked well for me over the years so don't feel you need to put in place each one but maybe you can gain a tip or two today for your home. I so desire that my home would be a sanctuary for my family and an oasis ... continue reading...
EP 106: The Salt of the Earth (Sermon on the Mount Series – Matthew 5:13)
In this next episode of the Sermon on the Mount, we start with two common pictures we're all familiar with from everyday life. No matter your location in the world—you know what salt and light are. We are to be salt, and we are to be light or better to state as the scripture states - we ARE salt, and we ARE light. We're going to take these one at a time, so today, we're just working through Matthew 5:13: "You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its ... continue reading...
EP 105: Practical Steps to Overcome Self Pity
I have been camping out in The Excellent Wife book, and I encourage you ladies if you haven’t read it in a bit to dust it off and bring it out again. It will bring your focus of marriage back to a biblical one. One of the chapters that surprised me that I gained much from was the one on loneliness. One statement Martha Peace made in the addendum on loneliness was shared from her friend, “being alone and lonely is not the same thing. If you are alone ... continue reading...
EP 104: Blessed are Those Who are Persecuted (Sermon on the Mount Series – Matthew 5:10-12)
We are coming to a climax today as we finish the last of the beatitudes in our series on the Sermon on the Mount. 10 "Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.11 "Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. 12 Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.Matthew 5:10-12 Sinclair Ferguson ... continue reading...
EP 103: Simple Tips to Read More Books
We all know the books we read shape us and grow us. I've been challenged by books, taught by books, and comforted by books over my years of reading and being read to. I can still pick up a book to read to my grandbabies that I read to my children when they were little and be taken back to those days of sitting with my babies on my lap getting lost in the story. I can hear in those memories the giggles, or surprise or sadness depending on the story in the voices of my children. It's been fun ... continue reading...