I want to walk through a bit of my super simple cleaning routine and hopefully share some encouragement with you or some tips to make cleaning your home a bit easier and even fun! Our home cleaning should not take up most of our day, and I want to help you figure out how to…
Inside: Being heavenly minded will guide how we respond to the people and circumstances the Lord places in our path. It shifts our gaze from self to Christ. Our church recently had an outreach at our state fair to hand out water bottles and gospel tracts. It reminded my heart how often it lacks focus…
Inside: When we become those people who understand what we have been forgiven of and the cost of that forgiveness. It is then that we will become thankful to the Lord for all He has done for us in and through Jesus. I have been camping in Colossians, working through it inductively for quite a…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
We have been working through the true character of a Christian in our time in the Sermon on the Mount series. When a man is truly poor in spirit, recognizing his bankruptcy before God, meek, pure, desiring righteousness and a peacemaker—he will be salt and light for Jesus to a lost world around him. Now,…
We want to get things done. We want our days to be productive. Deep down, we always want to get all those items on our to-do list checked off, which rarely happens. We may have days or seasons where we’re productive and on top of things, and there are other seasons where we feel like…
Last year our ladies’ bible study group at church studied several of the Psalms together. My Psalm to share a message and put together some study questions was Psalm 1, and I wanted to share my time from that study with you today. Psalm 1 is one I memorized years ago and I thought I…
Christian book choices can be a bit overwhelming with all the options available to us. Whether you’re buying them online or in a Christian bookstore, you’d like to make wise decisions and spend your time reading books that are solid theologically. Related: Top Ten Book Recommendations Series I’m sharing ten books with you that have…
There’s been a book that has been a comfort to me in my walk with the Lord as I parent a prodigal by Ruth Bell Graham called Prodigals and Those Who Love Them: Words of Encouragement For Those Who Wait. Waiting on a prodigal is hard, and this isn’t a how-to book but a…
*Update: This is an older post and as I’m re-sharing it we’re already signed up to head to the G3 Conference this September 30 – October 2, 2021, in Atlanta, Georgia and the theme is Christ Is Supreme Over All. If you’re able to attend it’s a conference I highly recommend it. We are on…
I love reading Paul’s prison prayers (Ephesians 1:15-23, 3:14-21; Philippians 1:9-11, Colossians 1:9-12) because we see the heart of what the apostle desired for us. Amid this trial, Paul didn’t pray the believers in Ephesus or Philippi would live their best life now. He didn’t pray for material blessings, but his focus was on…
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