On todays episode I will update you all on our daughters birth, give a few book recommendations, and share where we are at with our sons cancer treatment along with a few encouraging stories that greatly impacted me these last few months. We continue to be blessed by so many of you who have supported our family as we tend to our son Walker who was diagnosed with leukemia in December. I do hope to pick back up doing a weekly study to record the podcast on each Friday, but for now, thank you for listening in this week as I share more life updates. As always my hope for this Podcast is that you will leave here encouraged to go out and serve our Lord Jesus all the more this day!

Join me back this week as I give you all an update since our youngest son’s cancer diagnosis in December. I’ll give you an overview of his current and future treatment plan and news of our upcoming new addition in less than a week. Here I also have a few books to recommend that I’ve finished the last few months that I believe you will be blessed by. May you also be encouraged today to “Slow down and smell the roses” as I was encouraged to do a few years back. My how those words are really being put into action as my family and I take each day, each step at a time into the future that lies ahead. It was a pleasure to be back and I’m glad you are taking your time to join me. May you seek to grow in your relationship with the Lord Jesus all the more today and to trust what He is wanting to do in and through you during your short pilgrimage on the earth!

Join me this week as we continue on with Week 13 in the Excellent Wife Series! The Word is living and active ladies. Let’s not just read it to check a box, but rather to seek the Lord while He may be found. May we ask Him to search our hearts and find ourselves truly delighting ourselves in His Word and allowing it to lead us to obedience. May you leave here encouraged seeking to follow the Lord more faithfully and giving your devotion to Him because He is truly worthy of all our praise!

Hello ladies and welcome back to the podcast and to the first day of December 2023! As we begin to slow down in this winter season, let us find joy and cling to the hope we have in the Lord this Christmas for what He has truly done in sending His Son Jesus to the earth! Move aside Santa, because Jesus is the true reason for the season. This week on the podcast we will discuss submission. God has implemented different areas of authority. We see this within the State, the Church, and the Family. This is for our protection and isn’t to be viewed as a burden. As wives we are to submit to our husbands. It is the will of God and today we will look at four biblical principles concerning a wife’s submission and joy. Come along this week as we learn what this looks like and how it’s possible for us to live out His Word in our everyday lives. Let’s focus on loving our husbands, respecting our husbands, & as we will discuss more intentionally today, submitting to our husband’s. I hope you will be encouraged and leave here seeking to submit yourselves to the will of God finding joy in who He has created you to be as His chosen child, a woman, and as a wife to your husband.

This week on the podcast we will discuss six biblical principles regarding sex. God’s great purpose for sex in a marriage was for the procreation of life, but also for physical intimacy. Sexual intimacy is for the mutual giving and receiving of great pleasure and joy between a husband and a wife! Won’t you seek to agree with God that sex within marriage is indeed good and view it His way! This has been somewhat of an uncomfortable topic to openly discuss, but if you are anything like me, I believe this is rooted in the fact that I have believed the worlds lies about intimacy rather than going directly to God’s Word for truth. This week I hope you will walk away with a better understanding of Intimacy and that your marriage will be blessed as a result! May you seek to become a more fully devoted follower or Jesus Christ, leaning on His Word and the Holy Spirit as your guide! May you leave here encouraged.

This is a hard week, as it requires us women to do a detailed assessment in our lives. The topic this week focuses on respect and in Martha’s book, The Excellent Wife, she lays out five Biblical Principles a wife should be abiding in as she seeks to apply this truth in her life. The wife is to respect her husband. She also is to respect his position. A wife is to act to a respectful manner at all times. Wives should be reproving her husband respectfully and the wife who is disrespectful may experience severe consequences. Follow along as we discuss this difficult topic and take a simple self-assessment to see how we are doing in regard to respecting our husbands, which is the wife’s reverence. As always, I pray you leave here encouraged in your walk with the Lord Jesus and that you seek to make fully devoted followers of Christ as well.

An unpopular opinion is the biblical call for women to be workers at home. Let’s dive into week 8 of the Excellent Wife Series and discuss what it truly means to be a worker at home and what this actually looks like. I once was turned off by this concept. However now I see the beautiful God has put in place through a wife’s job in being a worker at home. My hope is that through hearing my own personal testimony and through your own time in prayer and meditation upon God’s Word, you will see the beauty in this calling as well. As always, there will be situations that providentially hinder us in life, but I believe our families would be greatly blessed if a woman can find joy in the role of being a homemaker. May you leave here this week being encouraged to take steps in your own walk with the Lord and seeking to be conformed more into the imagine of Jesus Christ.

Join me back this week as we start part 2 of The Excellent Wife series. We are now looking at a wife’s responsibility. We will be tempted to look to false gods to worship rather the true God. The truth is we are always worshiping something or someone. Let’s identify what areas we may indeed be putting something or someone else on the throne of our hearts where God our Creator alone belongs. In addition to false gods, we also tend to look to false saviors to bring us comfort, peace, and joy in this life. All these false saviors will leave us empty and we will become slaves to what was never intended to truly bring us life. Let us look to the One who created us, loves us, redeemed us, and the One who made it possible to have a relationship with God our creator. Jesus Christ is forever to be on the throne that He deserves. Let’s look to God’s Word to tear down the false idols we are worshipping and seek refuge in the only One that can truly save.

Welcome back as we continue on with week 6 using the book titled, The Excellent Wife. Chapter 6 addresses roles of women. I hope you will walk away with a biblical view in how you can embrace who God created you to be as His Imagine bearer and specifically as a female, redeemed by God. Never undervalue the reality that man and woman are interdependent on one another. Women are to submit to their husbands and husbands are to love their wives as Christ loves the church. We won’t do this perfectly, but as we seek to honor the Lord, we will therefore seek harmony in our marriages. This is only made possible through the perfect work of Christ and as we rely on His Word to lead us into the truth, this harmony will become more evident in our lives. As we embrace the truth, learning to submit to the will of the Father and the promptings of God the Holy Spirit, we will have a greater sense of joy carrying out the roles God always intended for us! May you leave here encouraged and growing in your relationship with Christ Jesus.