The Housewife Theologian

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 Christ, and the testimony of those who went before us. We are given the means of grace through the...

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 Jews),...

[caption id="attachment_1726" align="alignleft" width="240"] This is a boring rendition of boring.[/caption] This weekend I had the pleasure of attending my friend Marilyn’s 70 th birthday celebration. Her son and daughter-in-law wanted to surprise Marilyn, and they invited our whole Tuesday...

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 theology that granddad preached, he still had some treasures...

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 anything but unexceptional. We discover much about ourselves and the...

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: “Well, we all came from stardust…” Sometimes the holidays provide more...

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 Reeves highlight the source of this beauty of diversity in unity in his...

I used to think that my family was strange. Growing up with a father that taught martial arts in our home, there was a distinctive mentality that I was brought up in. Some families discuss current events or how they have contributed to society that day over the dinner table. My family would talk...

Sacred Bond , Michael G. Brown and Zach Keele (Reformed Fellowship, 2012) Sometimes I feel like some of my family and friends start tuning out when I begin throwing the “covenant” word around. It isn’t one that the Baptist churches I grew up in used very often. The lingo sounds kind of strange to...

It’s that time of the year when bloggers are faithfully posting their top ten reading lists for the year. Some of my readers have asked me to do the same. I didn’t come through last year and I won’t this year either. I don’t do it for the same reason that I hate giving a star rating on my Amazon...