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My Favorite Planners & Journals
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My Favorite Planners & Journals

ByMarci Ferrell

Inside: A roundup of my favorite planners and journals for homemakers – perfect for staying organized in the New Year! We’re getting ready to turn the calendar, and if you’re like me, I always look forward to starting a new planner for the year. I utilize digital apps for some of my time management, but…

50+ Things to Do Instead of Scrolling Social Media
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50+ Things to Do Instead of Scrolling Social Media

ByMarci Ferrell

Inside: Sharing some simple ideas to make good use of your time over mindlessly scrolling social media on your phone. We have all been there, finding ourselves mindlessly scrolling social media or the news or email or whatever on our phones. It’s not fun, productive, or helpful at all! I wanted to share some ideas…

Christmas & Advent Devotionals for the Whole Family
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Christmas & Advent Devotionals for the Whole Family

ByMarci Ferrell

Inside: A roundup of recommended Christmas & Advent resources for individuals and families. Christmas is near, and I know it will be on the mind of many of you to find a good devotional for your own personal use or one to read together as a family. You may even enjoy giving them as a…

2022 Christ-Focused Christmas Gift Guide for the Whole Family
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2022 Christ-Focused Christmas Gift Guide for the Whole Family

ByMarci Ferrell

Inside: Christ-Focused Christmas gift ideas for everyone on your list. Christmas shopping can get overwhelming, and I want to help you (and myself) make it less complicated. I love to find gifts for family and friends that point to Jesus. This will not be your typical Christmas gift guide but one I hope will help you and…

10 Manifestations of Humility
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10 Manifestations of Humility

ByMarci Ferrell

Inside: How does a humble person live differently from one who is prideful? Humility is simply thinking rightly of ourselves as we compare ourselves to the Lord. We are going to walk through ten comparisons of when our thinking is prideful versus when we are walking in humility before the Lord. Today’s episode is from…

EP 129: Fasting for the Glory of God (Matthew 6:16-18 – Sermon on the Mount Series)
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EP 129: Fasting for the Glory of God (Matthew 6:16-18 – Sermon on the Mount Series)

ByMarci Ferrell

Inside: Fasting is a way to remind us that everything we truly need is found in Christ and Him alone. Jesus fasted, and He expected that His followers would fast too. Fasting is a way to remind us that everything we truly need is found in Christ and Him alone. Jesus fasted, and He expected…

Questions to Examine Yourself to See if You are in the Faith (2 Corinthians 13:5)
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Questions to Examine Yourself to See if You are in the Faith (2 Corinthians 13:5)

ByMarci Ferrell

We know that going in for a yearly physical, especially as we age is a good thing. It can catch early symptoms of a health issue before it becomes a problem. Even more important than a physical check-up is a spiritual check-up. It determines the matter of where we spend eternity. It’s one of the…

EP 121: Have We No Rights? (Matthew 5:38-42 – Sermon on the Mount Series)
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EP 121: Have We No Rights? (Matthew 5:38-42 – Sermon on the Mount Series)

ByMarci Ferrell

Today, we live in a culture all about self and our rights and self-esteem. Jesus desires those of us in Christ not to be self-focused and not to take offense so quickly that we immediately seek retaliation.Our hope is to have our eyes so focused on Christ and who we are in Christ and our…

Helpful Tools for Your Homemaking & Walk with the Lord
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Helpful Tools for Your Homemaking & Walk with the Lord

ByMarci Ferrell

Part of my hope here at Thankful Homemaker is to not only provide you with free resoruces through the blog and podcast to encourage you in your homemaking but to provide you with other helpful affordable resources. I love to use a sermon notebook, daily time with the Lord planner and menu planner. Sometimes these…

EP 119: Tell the Truth! (Matthew 5:33-37 – Sermon on the Mount Series)
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EP 119: Tell the Truth! (Matthew 5:33-37 – Sermon on the Mount Series)

ByMarci Ferrell

We’re on the fourth of Jesus’s illustrations of what true morality looks like to those that are in Christ. We talked about the sin of anger in EP 113 and dealing with our adulterous hearts or sexual purity in EP 115. Divorce and remarriage or better put our faithfulness in marriage in EP 117. Today…

EP 118: Cultivating Patience with One Another
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EP 118: Cultivating Patience with One Another

ByMarci Ferrell

If someone were to ask your family if you were a patient person, what would their response be? I want to consider myself a patient person, but I’m not sure what my family would say, and especially when I’m under stress or when things aren’t working out on my timetable. How patient am I with…

My Top 10 Books of 2021
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My Top 10 Books of 2021

ByMarci Ferrell

Book recommendation posts are my favorites and I’m sharing some of my top reads from this past year. I didn’t seem to read as much as in past years but did spend a lot of time camping in the Sermon on the Mount resources for the series at the podcast. Martyn Lloyd Jones has become…

EP 116: Dealing with Controversy as a Christian
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EP 116: Dealing with Controversy as a Christian

ByMarci Ferrell

  As Christians who live in a world that denies absolute truth, we are going to run into controversy. Controversy is an area we need to learn to deal with in a God-honoring way when there are issues inside and outside our churches that need to be addressed.  Listen Below to the Bitesize Episode Subscribe…

EP 115: Dealing with Adulterous Hearts (Matthew 5:27-30 – Sermon on the Mount Series)
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EP 115: Dealing with Adulterous Hearts (Matthew 5:27-30 – Sermon on the Mount Series)

ByMarci Ferrell

We live in a culture today that is obsessed with sex and sensuality. From tv ads, magazines at grocery store checkouts, perfume ads, images of women in their undergarments in store windows, to the songs on the radio that glamorize infidelity—how is it possible to live a life of purity in such a society? Jesus…

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