Homemaking While Working Outside the Home
By Heather Faria, Contributing Writer When I was engaged to be married, I was filled with plans and dreams for what my life would be like as a new wife! One of the desires I probably clung to the hardest was to be a stay at home wife. Growing up, I had been taught that in… Read More
Portrait of a Titus 2 Woman
By Katie, Contributing Writer For my birthday, a friend of mine gave me a book by Carolyn Mahaney. Carolyn and her daughters are the authors of the website Girl Talk. It’s a fantastic resource for women! The book is called Feminine Appeal. I have just started it but it is very good so far. She is basing the… Read More
Just Do the Next Thing – My Homemaking Motto
Post by Anjanette Barr, Contributing Writer I had been married for almost three years and was desperately in love with my life. My sweet little boy had a permanent place on my hip and I couldn’t wait for my husband to come home so that I could tell him about every second of fun we’d… Read More
The Madness of Multitasking
By Lauren Huss, Contributing Writer The whole family was together. Lounging around the family room enjoying each other’s company… Sort of. I surveyed the ridiculous scene. The talking heads arguing about the news of the day in high-def. Husband stretched out in the recliner, Kindle Fire in hand, scanning an e-book while awaiting his next… Read More
Hospitality through the Bible: New Testament
This post is part of my series on The Joy of Hospitality: Practicing the Biblical art of serving others! You can follow along and read all posts in the series HERE. Any discussion of Biblical hospitality, must first naturally start with the Bible. Yesterday we dove into the Old Testament to find out what it has to… Read More
Hospitality Through the Bible: Old Testament
This post is part of my series on The Joy of Hospitality: Practicing the Biblical art of serving others! You can follow along and read all posts in the series HERE. Hospitality is a very foreign concept in our modern North American society. We are exchanging deep conversations for 140 character tweets. Conversations are becoming… Read More
Being an Industrious Proverbs 31 Woman {working from home}
We can learn so many valuable lessons from the Proverbs 31 woman. She is the picture of the domestic wife working hard at home and taking care of her husband, children, and home. She is shown as a non-lazy woman who works with willing hands, she brings healthy and nutritious food for her household from… Read More
Help for the Overwhelmed Homemaker
Being a homemaker is a tough job. We daily wear 50 different hats and must work really hard to glorify God in our homemaking. “Homemaking is not employment for slothful, unimaginative, incapable women. It has as much challenge and opportunity success and failure, growth and expansion, perks and incentives, as any corporate career.” ~ The Christian… Read More
Managing Your Family Finances…for God’s Glory!
This week we will be focusing on what it means to be a homemaker that brings glory to God in her homemaking as part of the 5 Days of Intentionally Living series. Glorifying God in your homemaking can come in many different forms, from setting the atmosphere in your home, to taking charge of your families health, to… Read More
How to Find Peace When Worried About Finances
By Jolene Engle, Contributing Writer I think most people at one point in their lives have worried about their finances. We’ve attended what I like to call, The School of Financial Suffering. Of course some have been attending this school longer than others. Certainly the one person that holds a Doctorate in this school is Job… Read More