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But Did I Share the Gospel?
We’re continuing our Women Living Well series this week on the topic of your walk with the King. “Your influence as a mother is powerful, don’t waste it. Little eyes are watching you.” ~ Courtney Joseph, Women Living Well Ohhhh, Friends. Isn’t it in the smallest things that we find the greatest “ah haa moments” ? Just yesterday, I asked my son to clean his room. As most ten year olds do, he bantered back and forth with me, “Maaaaaa, it’s summmmmer”, and “Maaaa, I cleaned my room yesterday!” Finally, when I mentioned the upcoming consequence, he begrudgingly ran upstairs, shut the door, and from my knowledge did what he was supposed…
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The Virtuous Life Series: Discussing the Virtue of Love Pt. 1
This is part one of week four in our series, The Virtuous Life of a Christ-Centered Wife. See table of contents at the bottom of this post. This week we’re talking about the virtue of love. I had originally titled this discussion benevolence, another name for charity, but after taking a closer look at the word I thought it best to avoid any confusion. Our modern use of the word charity can be quite different from the original word, agapē, which is described as a sacrificial love in 1 Corinthians chapter 13. Today however, many people see charity as little more than a duty. It’s something we do at Christmas time–another…
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The Virtuous Life Series: 5 Ways to Exercise Purity
This is week two/part two of our series, “The Virtuous Life of a Christ-Centered Wife.” For previous posts, please see the links at the bottom of this article. Another name for the virtue of purity is “pure in heart.” To be pure in heart means to have good intentions. The opposite of that would be doing things merely because we feel obligated to, or doing one thing while thinking another, otherwise labelled a hypocrite. I remember driving in the car one evening with my oldest son when I said to him, “I’m not like that. I’d never been so rude to a person…” As far as I was concerned, I…
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The Christ-Centered Wife: Examining the Virtue of Purity
We’re starting this series of discussions by examining the virtue of purity. What is it? How do we get it? Why is it vital to our walk with the Lord? Those are some of the questions we’ll look at this week as we dig deeper into the virtuous life of a Christ-centered wife. When we consider the idea of purity, the first thing that comes to mind is one’s sexuality. By protecting our purity, we save ourselves for marriage. That’s an important step for every Christian to take, but there are many ways that we are called to purity, and several ways that we exercise the virtue of purity in…
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The Virtuous Life of a Christ-Centered Wife – Introduction
The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, “I was wrong.” – Sydney J. Harris Before we get into the study of virtues–before we dig any deeper–let’s start out by examining what virtues are, and why they are important to our walk with God. First and foremost we’re saved by grace. There’s nothing that we can do to earn our salvation. Salvation has been imputed to us by God through faith in His son, Jesus Christ. The thing is however that those who believe in Jesus, believe He is…
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New Blog Series – The Virtuous Life of a Christ-Centered Wife
I love going through a new series, don’t you? Every time one ends on my blog I get to thinking about the next one. What could I write about? What would interest you? Where is the Lord leading? And so I’ve been tossing around the idea of going through the virtues one by one. Not every virtue, as I could write on this topic forever, but the seven that are commonly known: purity self control benevolence diligence patience kindness humility What I really like about this study is that virtue calls us to action. As we exercise each one of them, they bring our flesh in line with our Spirit. …
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He Always Brings Me Back to Grace
As a writer there are some days when I have to wonder… What if this is it? What if I’m the only Bible that some people read? What is the message they receive? What if someone is looking to me to see an example of Christ? How often do I fail them? Me, your pastor, Billy Graham, John Piper, the neighbor next door… we’re all a work in progress–saved by nothing but the grace of God. Oh how we fail. I’ll never be an example of perfection, but I can point you toward a perfect God who transforms those who believe through His Son. I don’t have a flawless past,…
