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Top 10 Articles & Podcasts of 2018

by Marci Ferrell
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My main reason for blogging is to continue to share with others what the Lord is teaching me in my various roles He has called me to as a Christian woman, wife, mother and now grandmother. @mferrell

My main reason for blogging is to continue to share with others what the Lord is teaching me in my various roles He has called me to as a Christian woman, wife, mother and now grandmother. @mferrell

The end of the year is always a time I review here at the blog and determine what my schedule looks like for next year. It’s fun for me to see what the top read posts and listened to podcasts were from the last year. It’s been a good help in determining what type of content my readers are interested in.

I’m just so thankful for every one of you and have been grateful for your support and friendships over many years here at the blog now. I started this blog in 2010 by the encouragement of my daughter and the posts then we’re very simple, and my technology knowledge was extremely limited, but I’m learning little by little and have been thankful to be able to move from blogger to WordPress and launch a podcast.

My main reason for blogging is to continue to share with others what the Lord is teaching me in my various roles He has called me to as a Christian woman, wife, mother, and grandmother. This has been good accountability for me to dig a bit deeper into my studies and I’m thankful to have these writings and podcasts to share with my grandbabies one day too.

The podcast has been well received and we are at over 156,000 downloads at the time of writing this post. Thank you so much for your reviews and for sharing it with your friends. The Marriage Series was a well listened to and read series too.

Pinterest is my main traffic source to the blog which I find interesting because I always imagined it being Facebook. I’m thankful for my email subscribers, and I’d love you to subscribe to the blog if you don’t – you can do that here. I have a few freebies for my email subscribers (you can find them at the bottom of every post you receive by email).

If you’re a podcast listener, please consider subscribing to Thankful Homemaker wherever you listen in – I have many options here to subscribe on your favorite podcast app.

You can also spend time with us in the Facebook group where we discuss various topics each day of the week and pray for one another too.

I’m still trying to determine what my content looks like for next year. I’ve tried to put out a podcast and a post each week, but it’s hard at times, so I’m working on possibly a different schedule. I have a couple of series in mind for the blog and podcast, and I’m excited about them. If you have any suggestions, I’m always open, and you can contact me here by email. If you’re on social media you can find me on Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest  (I’m on Twitter but still haven’t figured that one out ;)).

I have a presence on social media but I’m not on there live too often. I do utilize the help of scheduling tools in sharing my content and use SmarterQueue for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook group posts and TailWind for Pinterest and Instagram. They are my affordable Virtual Assistants as I like to call them. I have also been blessed by utilizing the help of Mediavine and those are the ads you see on my site now when you visit. It has helped me to cover the blog costs and earn a small profit.

Here are the top 10 articles and podcasts from 2018:

Top Articles of 2018:

  1. 20 Questions to Help Build Intimacy in Your Marriage 

  2. How Respectful Are You To Your Husband?

  3. Elisabeth Elliot on Hints for a Quiet Time

  4. My Top 50 Cleaning Shortcuts

  5. Starting Your Day With Jesus

  6. Cultivating a Gentle Spirit

  7. Inductive Bible Study & A Walk Through Ephesians

  8. How to be Perfectly Miserable

  9. 5 Steps to Help Remove the “Log” In Our Eye

  10. My Favorite Resources on Sex and Sexual Intimacy in Marriage

Top Podcasts from 2018:

  1. EP 33: Is Your Smartphone Changing You?

  2. EP 18: Putting on an Attitude of Love in Your Home

  3. EP 6: What Does Self-Discipline Look Like in Our Homes?

  4. EP 34: God’s Design for Our Marriages & Our Role as Women

  5. EP 35: To Love Their Husbands

  6. EP 40: Sexual Intimacy in Marriage

  7. EP 27: Planning Our Days as Homemakers

  8. EP 29: Where to Begin When You’re Overwhelmed in Caring for Your Home

  9. EP 21: Routines of the Day: Making the Most of Your Morning and Evenings

  10. EP 30: Cultivating Self-Control in Our Lives

 

What were some of your favorite articles or podcasts episodes here from last year?

 

 

Related posts:

  1. My Favorite Podcasts for Christian Women
  2. EP 34: God’s Design for Our Marriages & Our Role as Women – Marriage Series #1
  3. 25 Ways to Enjoy Your Family
  4. My Favorite Resources on Sex and Sexual Intimacy in Marriage


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    Hey Marci! So glad Mediavine was a part of your awesome year. We’re so glad to have you as one of our publishers.
    Happy 2019!
    — Susannah at Mediavine

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Patience is our ability, under the control of the Patience is our ability, under the control of the Spirit, to persevere and endure in times of suffering or hardship.⁣⁣
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Come listen in (or read) EP 118: Cultivating Patience with One Another at the link in my profile @thankfulhomemaker (click on the link under the blue arrows and then this image)
By affliction, Christ . . .⁣⁣ shows us our em By affliction, Christ . . .⁣⁣
 shows us our emptiness and weakness,⁣⁣
 draws us to the throne of grace,⁣⁣
 purifies our affections,⁣⁣
 weans us from the world,⁣⁣
 and makes us long for Heaven.⁣⁣
~ J.C. Ryle⁣
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Read more of Trusting God in Your Trials at the link in my profile @thankfulhomemaker (click on the link under the blue arrows and then this image)
I know we can all relate to self-pity as women, wi I know we can all relate to self-pity as women, wives, and mothers.  How many times do we focus on our needs that aren’t met?  Unfair situations or circumstances?  Self-pity is a selfish tendency that takes our eyes off Christ and puts them on ourselves. ⁣⁣
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We forget that “God works all things together for good to those who love Him and are called according to His purpose.” Are we able to give God “thanks in all things”?⁣⁣
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Come listen in to EP 105: Practical Steps to Overcome Self Pity at the link in my profile @thankfulhomemaker (click on the link under the blue arrows and then this image)⁣
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Weekly Menu Planning Free PDF is at the link in my profile @thankfulhomemaker (click on the link under the blue arrows and then this image).
"God's written Word, the Bible, is God's greatest "God's written Word, the Bible, is God's greatest earthly gift to his people, second only to the living Word, Jesus. And because the living Word perfectly lived out the written Word, we are blessed beyond measure. Jesus fulfilled every precept found in Psalm 119, keeping the principles and commandments of this psalm, and he did so on our behalf.⁣
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Our failure to live wholeheartedly is covered by Jesus, who lived it perfectly for us. Ultimately, he is Psalm 119 in human form, the Word became flesh and dwelt among us (John 1:14)."⁣
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~ Taken from Sing a New Song: A Woman's Guide to the Psalms by Lydia Brownback⁣
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With my whole heart I seek you;⁣
let me not wander from your commandments!⁣
I have stored up your word in my heart,⁣
that I might not sin against you.⁣
~ Psalm 119:10-11
Accept the cost of good deeds in time, thought, an Accept the cost of good deeds in time, thought, and effort. But remember that opportunities for doing good are not interruptions in God’s plan for us, but part of that plan. We always have time to do what God wants us to do.⁣
~ Jerry Bridges, The Practice of Godliness⁣
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Listen in to 10 Things Helping Me to Manage My Days as a Homemaker at the link in my profile @thankfulhomemaker (click on the link under the blue arrows and then this image).
I’m sharing a walkthrough of various tools and s I’m sharing a walkthrough of various tools and systems that help me to get things done. It’s a practical episode, and I hope to encourage you, if nothing else, to take a look at how your days are going and ask yourself some simple questions like:⁣
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What is working and what is not working?⁣
Where do I find myself wasting time?⁣
Where can I make better use of my time?⁣
Can I simplify my days or various tasks or automate them?⁣
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These are just a few questions to ponder, and there are many more you can ask, but the main one is to seek the Lord and ask him, are you a good steward of your time? Is your desire to honor Him amid your days and in how you spend your time?⁣
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Many more than ten systems or tools help me manage my days, but these items top my list. I’ve shared more in detail on some of these in past blog posts or podcast episodes, but I wanted to put together an episode that walked through how I use each one.⁣
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An episode like this one is more helpful to me than you because it helps me to think through my days and systems and tools and determine what is working for me and what isn’t.⁣
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Listen to 10 Things Helping Me Manage My Days as a Homemaker at the link in my profile @thankfulhomemaker (click on the link under the blue arrows and then this image).
Who doesn’t want to save money, time, their sani Who doesn’t want to save money, time, their sanity, reduce stress, eat healthy and avoid the dreaded question, “What’s for dinner?” It sounds great, right, and we’d all love to do it, but how do we get there?⁣
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Menu planning is the answer to all those questions above. We have a jam-packed episode today filled with tons of tips, examples, and ideas, so stick with me, and I know there will be something that will appeal to each of you in some way.⁣
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Listen in at the link in my profile @thankfulhomemaker (click on the link under the blue arrows and then this image).
Though gradually, though no one remembers exactly Though gradually, though no one remembers exactly how it happened, the unthinkable becomes tolerable. And then acceptable. And then legal. And then applaudable.⁣
~ Joni Eareckson Tada⁣
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Come listen to EP 70: Finding Forgiveness After an Abortion at the link in my profile @thankfulhomemaker (click on the link under the blue arrows and then this image)
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