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K-nowledge Isn’t From College

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 off campus. It was […]

People-Pleasers vs. People-Lovers

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 Book Giveaway!

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 more of my books as additional prizes. All […]

Reflections While Sitting Under the Preached Word

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, protection, and consecration, one […]

The Assembly of the Good People

The Aquila Report brought my attention to yet another article written about an atheist church. Apparently, the atheist mega-church is on the rise. In this article there were several hundred unbelievers in attendance, including families with small children. It seems that atheists are feeling a little homesick from their upbringing in the church. So they […]

Will the One True God Please Stand?

I’m pleased to post another article from my friend, Dana Tuttle. Poor thing, when I recommend books to her now, I also expect a blog post in return. So here are some thoughts from a fellow housewife theologian: A reflection from Against the Gods, The Polemical Theology of the Old Testament by John D. Currid […]

Do More Than One Stinking Pull-Up

This is the title of an awesome article over at The Art of Manliness blog. In it, Brett McKay opens with an embarrassing moment that has motivated him to a life of fitness. It was the dreaded fitness test in the sixth grade. Apparently the positive pep talk he gave himself while the girl before […]

Jesus Gonna Be Here*

Stephen J. Nichols, Getting the Blues (Brazos Press, 2008) “My daddy was a guitar pickin’ man.” This is the first line of a country song that my mom wrote about her father, my granddad. The stories that he’s told me about his childhood as a poor boy in the south, discovering music, particularly the guitar, […]

Housewives and Bully Pulpits

While Carl Trueman was off galavanting around, Todd Pruitt and I recorded a bully pulpit for a Mortification of Spin podcast. I don’t know how I get myself into these things. We discuss a recent story that broke regarding mega church pastor Steve Furtick of Elevation church, his mega house that he is building, and […]

Barometer of Virtue

I dug this article up that I wrote almost two years ago because I was about to write another just like it: Grocery shopping takes a lot of discernment these days—at least for those of us who want to avoid a heart attack by 54. There are certain treasures we are told search for: antioxidants, […]