Category The Housewife Theologian

What is it that distinguishes a friend from an acquaintance? Is it the amount of time that you spend with them? I would have to say there are some people that I spend quite a bit of time with who…

Counsel from the Cross, Elyse M. Fitzpatrick and Dennis Johnson (Crossway, 2009) I am reading an awesome book right now! I couldn’t decide which tabbed page I’ve marked to be used as a Reading Reflection. One of my flagged sections…

My Sunday School teacher said something that has been turning in my mind all week. We have been studying prayer, and this week was about some of the benefits that we receive from adoption into God’s family. The first verse…

Hey Guys, This has been a crazy month of illnesses for my family. My daughter’s pneumonia took a turn for the worse and my husband needed an emergency appendectomy this week. Hopefully, I can bring him home from the hospital…

Hoping for Something Better, Nancy Guthrie (Saltriver, 2007) I just started reading this book by Guthrie. It is designed to be used as a woman’s Bible study on the book of Hebrews (A 10-week study. There is no way I…

So the other morning in our home it was just my oldest daughter, Solanna, and me while everyone else was at school and work. I’ve basically had a month with either me or my kids battling a kick-butt upper respiratory…

There is a blog article over on The Gospel Coalition website titled Do Looks Matter? It opens with a conversation some teens were having in the youth ministry about whether or not it matters how good looking their future wife…

There seems to be a human built-in trait that thrives on repetition. We can track it all the way back to infancy, when a baby that can’t even speak knows how to make that anticipatory face for you to hide…

Knowing God, J.I. Packer (IVP, 1973) Well it is official. The Christmas season is here. The stores can now legitimately play Christmas music. They can all compete to create that sense of magic that we all feel during this holiday…