The Housewife Theologian

When Matt and I married, we were searching for a church. Heck, we were searching for a denomination. Matt was raised in the Roman Catholic church, and I was raised in the Southern Baptist denomination. When we met, I was still in college, and Matt was just in his second year as a school teacher (...

It is timely that I am reading K. Scott Oliphint’s God With Us during this Christmas season. I’ve been returning to it in between some other reading projects. My brain hurts while I read it, and yet I keep coming back for more. One emphasis in Chapter Three, “Before Abraham Was…,” is that while the...

As we were pulling out of the driveway yesterday morning to go to Sunday School, it started. Sure, the newscasters were making a big deal about our first snow of the season, but you never know when to believe the hype these days. It was already sticking to the road as we made our way out of the...

There's a new Mortification of Spin available for your listening pleasure today. In it, Carl Trueman, Todd Pruitt, and I discuss a sensitive topic. When too many people benefit from your success, how will you be held accountable? This is an important issue that has come to light in the evangelical...

Over the holiday I gathered with some of my favorite people, my extended family, for a long weekend in Deep Creek, MD. Thanks to my mom, we’ve been doing this for several years now. I’ve always been very close with my brother and my sister and it is such a blessing that we all love the Lord. Each...

“But behold, the hand of him who betrays me is with me on the table” (Luke 22:21). Jesus was betrayed. Think about that for a minute. Betrayal has to be one of the most painful emotional and spiritual trials to go through. One of the twelve disciples whom Jesus has invested precious, blessed time...

As I'm preparing for a Housewife Theologian small group meeting tonight, I remembered an article I wrote over a year and a half ago about k-nowledge. I've borrowed the introduction to that article for a different reflection today. During my last two years of college, five of us girls rented a house...

Edward Welch makes a great distinction in his book, When People Are Big and God Is Small . After mentioning 1 Thess. 2:4, “but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not to please man, but to please God who tests our hearts,” he distinguishes between...

P&R is hosting a book giveaway from Nov. 18th-20th (ending at noon). Who wants free books? They are giving away one Grand Prize, including John Frame's Systematic Theology , my book, Housewife Theologian , and K. Scott Oliphint's Should You Believe in God? P&R will also be giving away two...

My pastor has been preaching through Jesus’ prayer recorded in John 17. I’m pleased to be sitting under these sermons, as this prayer is so revealing. This Sunday, as my pastor was preaching through verses 6-19 and teaching us more about Jesus praying for his agents of grace, for their possession,...