Finding Joy in Your Home

With Valentine's Day just a few days away, it's the perfect time to talk about marriage and how we, as wives, can inspire our husbands. By learning how to be their cheerleaders, we can show true love and respect to them.

By using the acronym CHEER, we are going to take a look at some practical and Bibical ways that we can slow down and focus on our MAN! (And hopefully put a little spark back in our marriages.)

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In This Episode, You Will Learn:

About our 30 day marriage challenge that you can jump into

What it means to CHEER on your husband

How becoming your husband's cheerleader can have a powerful impact!

A great resource for learning more about loving and respecting our husbands

And some practical ways to do so

Links & Resources Mentioned in This Episode

My Homemaking Mentor – the biggest project I’ve ever worked on! I’m so excited!!

30 Days of Loving Your Man Challenge

Book recommendation: When a Women Inspires Her Husband by Cindi McMenamin

Book of the Week:

When a Woman Inspires Her Husband: Understanding and Affirming the man in your life

I read this book a few years ago and as I pulled it out to look at for this episode, it reminded me how powerful this book is. I am putting it on my "to-read" again list!! The author Cindi, spends a considerable amount of time sharing wisdom and advice from other women on how to love and inspire their husbands. There are so many practical ideas that we rooted and grounded in Scripture. I highly recommend this book to all wives - especially if you feel like that Spark has gone out or diminished in your marriage!

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We kicked off this discussion in episode #25, with the talk about how important God's Word is and some ideas for daily Bible reading plans. But we are not to just ingest God’s Word, we are to digest it, meditate on it, and let it transform our lives. Memorizing Scripture is one of the best ways to do this!

Joshua 1:8 says, “This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.”

In today's episode we are going to cover the importance of memorizing God's Word, how we can come to truly cherish his Word (and through that - treasure Christ himself), and some easy methods for memorizing! Listen to the episode here:

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In This Episode, You Will Learn:

More about my passion project for the year, My Homemaking Mentor

Why we should focus on memorizing Scripture

What Scripture has to say about itself - and how we are to cherish and treasure God's Word!

What it means to meditate on God's Word and soak it into our hearts and our souls

Some easy ways to practically memorize Scripture

5 areas to focus on when memorizing God's Word

[Tweet ""As a deer pants for flowing streams so pants my soul for you, O God." - Psalm 42:1-2"]

Links & Resources Mentioned in This Episode

My Homemaking Mentor – the biggest project I’ve ever worked on! I’m so excited!!

Hf #25: Developing the Habit of Daily Bible Reading

Hf #27: Methods for a Deeper Prayer Life

Overcoming My Struggle with Anxiety

Quick Scripture Reference Guide for Counseling Women by Patricia Miller

The Discipline of Grace by Jerry Bridges

A Heart Prepared (FREE eBook on memorizing God's Word)

5 Free Scripture Guides

In this episode, I share five different categories to help you get started with memorizing Scripture. I've compiled these five categories into these handy printable guides for you so that you can print them off and start memorizing God's Word - right away!!

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Today's episode is going to be a bit of a departure from our normal episode. Instead of covering a topic of homemaking, Jason is joining me today to talk about our ministry, what we've been up to the last six months, and big plans for the future!

If you don't care - then don't worry about it - return next week when we resume our series on Spiritual Disciplines for the Busy Homemaker!

You have been asking for us to add more weekly podcast shows (and we've had many requests for a daily show) - but we haven't had the capacity to do so yet, but now, it might actually be possible!

Tune into today's episode to see where our Ministry is headed going into 2016 and beyond!

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In This Episode, You Will Learn:

What we have been up to the last few months (and years)

What we've got coming up in 2016 here on the blog

Our future plans for the podcast

How you can partner with us in this ministry and help determine the future of Hf

Links & Resources Mentioned in This Episode

Hf #25: Developing the New Habit of Daily Bible Reading

Sign up to get notified FIRST when our new Homemaking Crash Course is available

My Homemaking Mentor - Launching soon to all beta users! Sign up to get notified when it's available.

2015 Homemaking Ministries Annual Conference

The new home of all of our products: Homemaking Ministries (A work in progress still)

Find us on Patreon

Homemaking Foundations Podcast on iTunes

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Find Us on Patreon:

You can learn more about supporting our ministry - and how YOU can help us produce more weekly shows - by checking out our Patreon page.

You don't care? No problem - we will stick to one episode per week! This podcast will always be free and always be available to listen to!

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The next few episodes here on the podcast are going to be a mini-series. We are going to be discussing Spiritual Disciplines for busy homemakers. To kick off the series, we are going to first discuss a vitally important discipline: daily Bible reading!

In certain seasons and stages of life, finding the time to read the Bible is really tough. There are so many things clamoring for our attention day in and day out that it is so easy to let Bible reading go during these difficult seasons. But, daily intake of God’s Word is essential to our lives as Christians.

In this episode we cover how to find the time for daily Bible reading, samples of different Bible reading plans, tips, and resources for more!

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In This Episode, You Will Learn:

How to set up a morning routine + my goals for 2016

Why daily Bible reading is so important

Suggestions for how to fit Bible reading into a busy schedule

Apps and technology to help with your Bible study/reading

4 excellent books for learning more

[Tweet ""Whatever we focus our hearts on first in the morning will shape our entire day" -@desiringGod"]

Links & Resources Mentioned in This Episode

Find out all the details of our Make Over Your Mornings challenge!

Make Over Your Mornings eCourse

My 2016 Word of the Year: JOY!

Book Recommendation: Women Living Well by Courtney Joseph

Book Recommendation: Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life by Donald Whitney

Book Recommendation: Women of the Word by Jen Wilken

Six Wrong Reasons To Check Your Phone in the Morning by Desiring God Blog

Book Recommendation: How to Study the Bible by John MacArthur

YouVersion Bible App

She Reads Truth App

He Reads Truth App

Homemaking Foundations Podcast on iTunes

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Book of the Week:

Women Living Well by Courtney Joseph

This book was a total surprise for me! I had no idea what to expect from this book, and to be honest, I wasn’t expecting a lot. I don’t know why. The title just seemed so vague and I think I was expecting it to be fluffy and not full of a ton of solid content. But boy was I wrong! This was one of my favorite books I’ve read this year!

The tag line is Finding Your Joy in God, Your Man, Your Kids, and Your Home. Every homemaker should read this book at some point! The book is broken into 4 main parts: Your walk with God, your marriage, your parenting and your homemaking. In every section I felt encouraged and also convicted about how I spend my time, respond to my husband, respond to me kids, and more. If you are looking for a good book on Biblical Womanhood, then I highly recommend you get a copy of Women Living Well! 

“I would like to believe that the Proverbs 31 woman may not have enjoyed every second of spinning her thread. It was mundane, hard work. In the same way, we may not enjoy every minute of cleaning toilets or folding underwear, but I think we all will admit that we love the feel of clean sheets on the bed, fresh towels in the bathroom, bathed babies in clean pajamas, and a warm meal on The result of our hard work is a blessing to everyone how enters our home.” – Women Living Well, page 171

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If you are needing a little motivation and encouragement to kick off your new year, then this episode is going to help you get started!

We are going to start off by talking a bit about the importance of planning for your year, creating a family mission statement, and how to set goals out of that.

“A family mission statement is a combined, unified expression from all family members of what your family is all about — what it is you really want to do and be — and the principles you choose to govern your family life.” -Stephen Covey

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In This Episode, You Will Learn:

My word of the year

The basics of creating a family mission statement

Resources for developing your own mission statement

Some tips for reviewing it with your husband

Creating realistic goals & priorities

[Tweet ""If you are feeling overwhelmed in your home, make a family mission statement for focus & intentionality!"]

Links & Resources Mentioned in This Episode

My 2016 Word of the Year: JOY!

The Art of Manliness: How and Why to Create a Family Mission Statement

Intentional By Grace: How to Create a Family Mission Statement (Gospel-Centered Approach)

Creating a Personal Priorities List for You Life & Homemaking

Determining How You Should Spend Your Time as a Homemaker

Creating a Manageable Schedule & Routines as a Homemaker

Make Over Your Mornings eCourse

Find out all the details of our MYM challenge starting January 11th!

Homemaking Foundations Podcast on iTunes

Sign up for my weekly podcast emails

Resource of the Week:

Make Over Your Mornings eCourse with Crystal Paine 

Take this 14 day course all about making over your mornings and learning how to manage all the CRAZY! Crystal’s grace-filled and simple approach to forming daily routines and rituals is a breath of fresh air. It doesn’t have to take a huge amount of time to transform your homemaking – in fact, if you can commit just 10 minutes a day, you can see a HUGE improvement in your homemaking. Check out the course today!

This course is not about getting up early but rather it’s about establishing small little routines into different parts of your day so that you can use your time wisely and efficiently.

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