Category Archives: Marriage

Marriage Is Not My Highest Calling

I believe strongly and wholeheartedly in solid, godly marriages. Marriage is an awe-inspiring, truly blissful thing and something to be lauded and heralded as the God-ordained institution it is. We are people created for marriage and, once married, we should strive daily, at every possible opportunity to encourage each other toward even stronger, even holier marriages.
But marriage is not [...]

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A Noble Task

I remember well my mom always telling me that a Christian woman does not even need to venture outside her home to minister. Of course, this does not mean that she shouldn’t ever minister outside her home, but it is amazing to me how true it is that God will bring ministry right to her [...]

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Monday at the Farm-in-the-City

Monday, August 24, 2009
I just love Mondays. Call me crazy, but I really do. There is just something about the sense of order that it brings, the reigning in after the comparative slackness of the weekend, that motivates me afresh every week. I like to bring my house back into order, and with it, myself, [...]

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Appealing Biblical Femininity (part two)

Can femininity still be appealing?  Is femininity biblical?  Can femininity lend appeal to the message of the Bible?  The answer is yes to all three.  Carolyn Mahaney outlines the biblical traits of a femininity that is not only appealing, but a femininity that has the power to give the very message of the Gospel appeal [...]

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Appealing Biblical Femininity (part one)

How often does it cross your mind that the way we live as Christian women is to actually commend the Gospel?  Carolyn Mahaney has written a book that brings that point home in a powerful way, highlighting “the seven virtues of a godly wife and mother” straight from Titus 2.  Feminine Appeal has a powerful [...]

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