Category The Housewife Theologian

Gospel Amnesia, Luma Simms (GCD, 2013) The title gives you a pretty good clue about this book. It’s a condition that we all need to be on guard against. And it can even be contagious. None of us are immune…

I went through such a stage of reading through the puritans in my late twenties and early thirties and that does something to you. Most of it is good, of course, but you do develop some quirks. For instance, I…

Every night as a child I said the same bedtime prayer. You know the ditty: Now I lay me down to sleep; I pray the Lord my soul to keep. If I die before I wake, I pray the Lord…

Now we walk by faith, but then we will have sight. Now we are given the written Word of God to study, sit under its preaching, meditate on, and pray. We are given the church of believers, the body of…

There is a continuous call to perseverance found in the sermon-letter to the Hebrews. These exhortations are strong warning passages scattered throughout verses 2:1-4; 3:12-4:13; 5:11-6:12; 10:19-39; and 12:25-29. With an audience of believers (the first intended audience being believing…

This weekend I had the pleasure of attending my friend Marilyn’s 70th birthday celebration. Her son and daughter-in-law wanted to surprise Marilyn, and they invited our whole Tuesday morning women’s Bible study group. Marilyn is truly an inspiration to me.…

My granddad is a retired Independent Baptist preacher. After he retired and he and my grandma were downsizing, he passed along some books from his library that he thought I would like. Although I don’t hold to the strong, dispensational…

If you’ve read any Flannery O’Connor, you are aware of her proclivity to take the reader into the darkness of humanity amidst the everyday, mundane life. She shows us that maybe our ordinary is familiar and common, but it is…

Delighting in the Trinity, Michael Reeves (IVP Academic, 2012)  A good book sticks with you after the read. So instead of a usual book review, I thought I’d share an instance of how I am still Delighting in the Trinity:…

My mom, her three sisters, and her brother sing gospel songs a cappella. They all have great singing voices, but they have a more special beauty when they are harmonizing together. I thought about this as I was reading Michael…