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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

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).

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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?

 

 

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  1. My Favorite Podcasts for Christian Women
  2. Podcast Ep 34: Marriage Series #1 – God’s Design for Our Marriages & Our Role as Women
  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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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.  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 take a listen to EP 105: Practical Steps to Overcome Self-Pity at the link in my profile (click on the link under the blue arrows and then this image).
"Your household is the most important schoolroom y "Your household is the most important schoolroom your children will ever know. And the lessons they learn don't begin and end when you crack open the family Bible. They are always watching and learning from your example—often without even realizing it. That's a tremendous responsibility and opportunity for Christian parents—one that we must make the most of, for God's glory and our children's good."⁣
 ~ John MacArthur⁣
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Come listen to EP 20: The Blessings of Loving Our Children at the link in my profile @thankfulhomemaker (click on the link under the blue arrows and then this image).
"The visible church is where you will find Christ' "The visible church is where you will find Christ's kingdom on earth, and to disregard the kingdom is to disregard its King."⁣
~ Michael Horton⁣
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Read - Building Loving Relationships In Your Church Family at the link in my bio @thankfuhomemaker (click on the link under the blue arrows and then this image).
Isaiah 48:10:Behold, I have refined you, but not a Isaiah 48:10:Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver;  I have tried you in the furnace of affliction.⁣
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Israel is being refined for the honor and glory of the Lord. I need the reminder that everything the Lord allows in my life is for my good and His glory. All that He does and allows is to further His eternal purposes. ⁣
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He continues to remove the dross from my life in the furnace of affliction, and through each trial and circumstance of my life, the hope is I'm becoming more and more molded and shaped into the image of Christ. ⁣
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Susan Huntington shared on this passage:⁣
"...if our blessed God sees that the disciple, like his Master, must be made perfect through sufferings, ought we not to welcome every means which will conduce to this blessed end? Can we desire to be babes in Christ all our days? If it is a proof of sonship to be chastised, may it not prove a special favor to be greatly chastised? ⁣
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If we were asked what the greatest good is, should we not answer that it is conformity to God? If we were asked what the best circumstances are for the Christian to be placed in, should we not answer that they are those that will, most constantly and most effectually, promote his conformity to God? Shall we then pray for afflictions? By no means. We are weak, and are crushed before the moth. We should not pray for what we do not know that we could bear. ⁣
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We should habitually pray for conformity to God, and quietly leave it to Him to determine by what means He will effect this blessed end."⁣
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-Excerpt taken from my favorite devotional - Seasons of the Heart: A Year of Devotions from One Generation of Women to Another by Donna Kelderman (link to the book is in my profile @thankfulhomemaker - click on the link under the blue arrows, and then this image).
Preaching the gospel to yourself. It's a phrase we Preaching the gospel to yourself. It's a phrase we've all heard, and we all agree with, but deep down, we're like, okay, what does that look like? Or how do I make that practical in my day-to-day life when my marriage is hard? Or the kids are out of control? Or there's an illness in my family, or I'm just stuck in a sinful pattern? Or the house is in chaos, and I don't know where to begin? ⁣
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The reality is we're always saying something to ourselves in our minds, especially in those moments of chaos or difficulty. ⁣
Is what we're speaking to ourselves centered on the truths of God's Word, or are we buying into the lies of the world? ⁣
We need to be talking to ourselves and not just listening to ourselves. But what do we need to be talking to ourselves about? ⁣
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This is what we're going to work through together in EP 69: Preaching the Gospel to Yourself - link in my bio @thankfulhomemaker (click on the link under the blue arrows and then this image).
"Your worst days are never so bad that you are bey "Your worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God's grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God's grace."⁣
~ Jerry Bridges⁣
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Read more at God's Blessing Does Not Depend On Our Performance at the link in my bio @thankfulhomemaker (click on the link under the blue arrows and then this image).
How many times at church do you find yourself disc How many times at church do you find yourself discussing non-spiritual things? As believers, our relationships with others in the body of Christ are unlike anything non-believers will ever experience. It is such a joy when you come across another Christian that you haven't met before, and because of the common bond of Christ, it is as if you have known them forever.⁣
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I have a favorite book that gets used quite often by Donald S. Whitney called Simplify Your Spiritual Life. In the section, Simplifying our Spiritual Life with Others, he guides us to drive the conversations into the spiritual. Wouldn't we all as believers like our conversations with other believers to be directed towards things related to knowing God, Bible reading and application, theology, evangelism, and prayer, to name a few.⁣
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Mr. Whitney shares some questions that are a natural help in directing your conversations with your brothers and sisters in the faith to the spiritual.  This is a handy list to keep in your Bible, planner, or purse.⁣
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The link to the questions is in my bio @thankfulhomemaker (click on the link under the blue arrows and then this image).
"If there is one maverick molecule in all the univ "If there is one maverick molecule in all the universe, then God is not sovereign. And if God is not sovereign, He is not God."⁣
~R. C. Sproul
Thoughts to ponder on the resurrection from John M Thoughts to ponder on the resurrection from John MacArthur:⁣
The basic truth of the resurrection undergirds a number of other truths.⁣
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1. It gives evidence that the Word of God is totally true and reliable. Jesus arose precisely when and in the way He had predicted (see Mt. 12:40; 16:21; 17:9, 23).⁣
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2. The resurrection means that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, as He claimed to be, and that He has power over life and death.⁣
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3. The resurrection proves that salvation is complete, that on the cross Christ conquered sin, death, and hell and rose victorious.⁣
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4. The resurrection proves that the church has been established. Jesus had declared, “I will build My church; and the gates of Hades shall not overpower it” (Mt. 16:8)… His resurrection proved that death itself could not prevent Christ from establishing His church.⁣
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5. The resurrection proves that judgment is coming. Jesus declared that the heavenly Father “has given all judgment to the Son” (Jn. 5:22), and since the Son is now risen and alive, His judgment is certain.⁣
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6. The resurrection of Jesus Christ proves that heaven is waiting. Jesus promised, “In My house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you” (Jn. 14:2). Because Christ is alive by the resurrection, believers have the assurance that He is now preparing a heavenly dwelling for them.⁣
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~Above via John MacArthur - Matthew Commentary 24-28, Moody, 1989, p. 314-315.
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