Proverbs 31, Expanded and Updated for the New Millenium

An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than diamonds, stocks, or blackberries. The heart of her husband trusts in her, because he knows that she has his best interest in mind. Every day of her life, she will benefit him and he will never be sorry he married her.
She plans carefully to be [...]

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I Love Being Married!

Last night I was rummaging through TJ Maxx looking for some curtains to coordinate with our new Starry Night that the kids wanted me to hang in the playroom, and as I was looking, I happened to overhear a short conversation at the layaway counter. The employee was asking a customer (whom she apparently knew) if [...]

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Interview With Martin Luther

Read an interview with Martin Luther on Classical Education from the Bluedorns, authors of Trivium Pursuit.

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Noel Piper’s Advice for Pastor’s Wives

The blog Girl Talk is currently posting a three-part interview with Noel Piper. In Part 2 of the interview, Noel was asked if she had any advice for pastor’s wives. Her advice was for pastor’s wives was to reconsider holding full-time employment. As pastors have irregular, and often hectic, schedules, Noel points out the benefits of [...]

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Am I Doing What I Can?

More from J. C. Ryle… 
It cannot be said that the subject is a new one. The world is old, and we have the experience of nearly six thousand years to help us. We live in days when there is a mighty zeal for education in every quarter. We hear of new schools rising on all sides. [...]

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How He Shall Be Clothed

I read bits of some popular parenting books at Barnes & Noble this weekend, and I had to re-read the J.C. Ryle article for a breath of fresh air. I understand that we now live in a kinder, gentler, world, but why, when it comes to out children, do we find the thoughts of former [...]

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My Dog Has a Headache and Other Important Reasons for Missing Church

As a minister’s wife, I’ve heard all the best reasons for missing church on Sunday. From important sports events to late Saturday night activities, I can’t imagine an excuse that I’ve not heard. Some folks, instead of skipping church, do try to work around their regular activities, like a family I knew that came in [...]

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Redeemed: Does My Life Proclaim It?

We have been redeemed. We know that. We sing songs about our redemption and praise God for it. But how often do we really ponder what it means to be redeemed or how our redemption should affect our daily lives?               
The apostle Peter, in his first epistle, bids us look more closely at redemption: “Foreasmuch [...]

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Enlightening Links

This is an inspiring post by Addy Forrest on her new blog, Faith and Family.
I really enjoyed hearing Matt Whitling speak last summer. He has a wonderful family and a lot of practical wisdom. This article addresses a principle that applies to all areas of our daily living, not just parenting. We must be obedient [...]

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Finding Myself

Who am I really? Who did God create me to be? These questions often surface during critical periods in our lives. For me it was this past summer—right before I gave birth to my first child. I was sitting on the floor of my office area trying to reach over my very pregnant belly to [...]

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Love Makes Dough Rise

A person holds the universe together—no laws, no impersonality. Christ holds the moon to the earth, not gravity. Christ touches mountains and they smoke (Ps. 104:32), not magmatic pressure. Christ grips each human body, not short bands of collagen fibers. Christ “has measured the waters in the hollow of His hand, measured the heaven with [...]

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Science Proves Common “Cents”

This morning I meandered through a science fair exhibition, observing live growing bacteria, hoping for a ride on the leaf-blower powered Hoover-Board, and confirming what I already suspected about drinking filtered water, watching too much visual media, and using the microwave. The three-paneled display that really got my attention, however, was a brightly-colored board with various [...]

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It’s Not About Discovering Our Learning Styles

The greatest challenge facing Christian education today is that of discovering the unity of all that is known, of formulating for our children a single mental vision, of bringing every tidbit of interpreted fact and every theory of explanation into subjection to Christ.
-Norman De Jong, Education in the Truth

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