Search Results for: Elisabeth Elliot

Do You Take Delight in Being a Keeper of Your Home?

ByMarci Ferrell

“As Christian women, this is the attitude that should characterize our lives. We are to be women who love our homes. We are not to merely workers at home, but we are to take great pleasure in working in our homes. We are to thoroughly enjoy the sphere that God has assigned to us.”…

Adult Children | Biblical Womanhood | Encouragement | Motherhood

Determining the Best Choices for Your Family

ByMarci Ferrell

My children are grown, and I’m now watching my daughter raise her little ones in such a different time than I did. I didn’t have internet, cell phones, or access to a thousand different voices coming at me, giving me advice on how to raise my family. My only guidance as a wife and…

Christian Living | Time Management

Are We Too Busy?

ByMarci Ferrell

“One reason we are so harried and hurried is that we make yesterday and tomorrow our business, when all that legitimately concerns us is today. If we really have too much to do, there are some items on the agenda which God did not put there. Let us submit the list to Him and ask…

Biblical Womanhood

Women in the Work World

ByMarci Ferrell

Sharing some helpful thoughts for women in the work world or those pondering going back to work from Elisabeth Elliot and Carolyn Mahaney: “Because I want to be faithful to what Scripture does say I often refer to that passage which tells me, as an older woman, what I am supposed to say to younger…

Time Management

Only A Few Things Are Important…..What’s On Your To Do List?

ByMarci Ferrell

I am grateful to the Lord for Elisabeth Elliot – she has mentored me unknowingly for many years. The Shaping of a Christian Family and Let Me Be A Woman being two books I refer back to often. “She accepted those things, [knowing] they were no surprise to God,” – Read the rest at Walking through…

Loving Our Husbands | Marriage

Loving Our Husbands

ByMarci Ferrell

Take a moment with me ladies to remember back to the early days of marriage. You loved to see your husband’s face, hear his voice, and feel his touch. Just to be near him, hold his hand, or delight in a long sweet conversation. Laughing together, taking long walks, love notes, sweet phone calls and…

Christian Living | Contentment | Marriage | Submission

The Essence of Femininity

ByMarci Ferrell

When you hear the word “femininity” what sort of images come into your mind? The world lays out many different pictures of what femininity should look like, but God tells us it is a life of surrender. May the words of Elisabeth Elliot encourage you today in finding your “gateway to joy.” …

Cleaning | Encouragement | Homemaking | Homemaking 101 Series

Homemaking 101 Series: Encouragement Along the Way

ByMarci Ferrell

Sometimes when we’re reading a Homemaking Series, we might think the ladies who write these have every part of their lives together. Let me be the first to tell you; I don’t have it all together. Some people may say I’m hypocritical by writing about something I haven’t mastered in my own life,…

Homemaking | Time Management

An Ordered Life

ByMarci Ferrell

“The way you keep your house, the way you organize your time, the care you take in your personal appearance, the things you spend your money on, all speak loudly about what you believe. The beauty of thy peace shines forth in an ordered life. A disordered life speaks loudly of disorder in the soul.”…

Christian Living | Homemaking

Peaceful Homes

ByMarci Ferrell

“A Christian home should be a place of peace, and there can be no peace where there is no self-denial.” ~Elisabeth Elliot If you would like to have Thankful Homemaker delivered to your inbox, simply click here: Subscribe to Thankful Homemaker Get updates that are not posted on the blog…

Christian Living | Encouragement | Motherhood

When the Days are Overwhelming

ByMarci Ferrell

I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? My help comes from the LORD, who made heaven and earth. Psalm 121:1-2 My daughter just had her second baby a little over a month ago, so she now has two both under 19 months. I want to share what I…

Christian Living | Contentment | Encouragement | Prayer

The More I See of Jesus

ByMarci Ferrell

Mary Forbes Winslow (1774–1854) was the wife of a British Army officer and the mother of 13 children, including the Victorian Baptist and Anglican minister Octavius Winslow, a contemporary of Charles Spurgeon and J.C. Ryle. Mary Winslow’s journal entries sparkle with a love for Christ and evidence of a deep work of God in her own…

Gift Guides | Holidays | Homemaking | Hospitality

10 Simple & Practical Hostess Gifts

ByMarci Ferrell

Inside: Hostess gifts are such a sweet way to show your appreciation for being invited into someone’s home. I’ve been on both the receiving end and the giving end of hostess gifts, and I want to share with you some of my favorites to give and receive. Hostess gifts are such a sweet way…

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Search Results for: Elisabeth Elliot

Do You Take Delight in Being a Keeper of Your Home?

Determining the Best Choices for Your Family

Are We Too Busy?

Women in the Work World

Only A Few Things Are Important…..What’s On Your To Do List?

Loving Our Husbands

The Essence of Femininity

Homemaking 101 Series: Encouragement Along the Way

An Ordered Life

Peaceful Homes

When the Days are Overwhelming

The More I See of Jesus

10 Simple & Practical Hostess Gifts

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