The Housewife Theologian

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 we looked up is Hebrews 12:6: For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and...

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 today, and my daughter is responding very well to four-hour nebulizer...

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 could cover Hebrews in 10 weeks, so this is something I need to read to believe...

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 virus. Ugh. So, after helping everyone else get ready and shuttled off, I returned...

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 is as long as they have all the spiritual qualities they are looking for...

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 behind your hands for the thousandth time so they can crack up laughing at another “peek-a-boo...

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 season. But candy canes, colorful lights, and blow-up yard ornaments...

I’m still in thankful mode. As a matter of fact, my family is in Deep Creek, MD right now to celebrate the holiday together. My mom rented a big, beautiful home to fit my brother and his family, my sister and her family, as well as me and my own. There are nine little cousins all running around...

Mayflower, Nathaniel Philbrick (Penguin, 2006) We do not know the exact date of the celebration we now call the First Thanksgiving, but it was probably in late September or early October, soon after their crop of corn, squash, beans, barley, and peas had been harvested. It was also a time during...

This year I share my birthday with Thanksgiving. I will be 36. That’s crazy. I was happy to enter my thirties, feeling as if my twenties represented a decade of building, and I assumed my thirties would be a great decade of responsible enjoyment and growth. That it has, although I didn’t realize...