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We as mothers get to revel in the limitless love of God even as we recognize our own limitations when we strive and often fail at loving our children like we want to.

Because we understand the mothering love of God in salvation, we mommas, like the three Marys at the tomb, get to tell the good news of God’s love for us, equipped with empathy and understanding from our own day-to-day lives as mothers.

We as mothers can describe the salvation offered in Christ in ways that only mothers can.

Momma, on this Mother’s Day, God is calling us to live in the new life that God has labored toward since the earth’s beginnings. God is inviting us to live our days in such a way that we both recognize and live out the tireless, unending, fierce love of God in the day to day of diapers and dishes. God is calling us to bear the image of God right within our mothering, in both the pain and the joy. Happy Mother’s Day!

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Momma Theologians is a new motherhood ministry podcast and our mission is to revive spiritual growth in the midst of motherhood.

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Momma Theologians Contributor

Elizabeth Berget

Elizabeth is a wife, mama to three, homeschooler, photographer, and writer who has always done her best thinking while writing—from her angsty teenage journal entries until now. She’s lived in Africa and Asia but is really just a country mouse with a Minneapolis zip code. She strongly believes in the restorative power of Jesus and a home-cooked meal, or even just a really good cheese, and writes mostly about how the image of God is uniquely understood and displayed in motherhood. You can find more of her words on her website, or on Instagram.

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As much as our hearts desire it, we cannot choose God for our children or ensure their obedience. We point to God and He shoulders the burden of our children’s souls – much like the line between faith and works. Our actions affirm God’s grace, but cannot achieve salvation for ourselves or others (James 2:17, Eph. 2:8-10).

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1) Meditate on the spiritual metaphor of seeds and harvest in Matthew 13:1-43. How can you cultivate the soil of your children's hearts to receive the seeds you plant?

2) When you are tempted to believe your children's obedience relies on yours, read Ezekiel 18. Confess your burden to the Lord in prayer so that He can take that weight from your heart.

3) Sometimes, Christian teaching becomes a stumbling block, but God draws his disciples. Read about this promise in John 6:28-69 and pray for God to draw your children. I like to pray using Ephesians 1:17-19, 3:16-21, and Philippians 1:9-11.

4) Talk to your children in age-appropriate ways about taking ownership of their faith. You want your children to be conformed to Christ, not your beliefs, so encourage them to seek and test. For scriptural conversation starters on this topic, consider Matthew 7:7-8 and James 4:7-8a. Ask questions like: "What do you think these verses mean? What would that look like in your day-to-day life?"

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We are so thankful you found us here!

Momma Theologians is a new motherhood ministry podcast and our mission is to revive spiritual growth in the midst of motherhood.

We offer resources, articles, essays, a monthly devotional newsletter and more at www.mommatheologians.com

Be sure to follow us on social media @mommatheologians

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Leslie Klosterman

Leslie Klosterman has savored more than a decade as a stay-at-home mother and volunteer. However, she recently took a leap of faith and completed her master’s degree in Christian Spirituality and Formation at Regent University. God has blessed Leslie with three lively sons (a teenager and twins who are eight). Leslie loves God, reading, writing, K-Dramas, dessert, and taking pictures. She also has a passion for ministering to women and children. You can find more of her writing at her personal blog. 

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PMADs color a mother’s whole world, and often nothing seems good. Saying “you’re doing a good job,” feels empty. Worse, it may even make her feel hypocritical because of how she feels inside. Instead of offering her general statements about God or her motherhood, give her something specific: Comment on how patiently she handled her toddler’s meltdown or how affectionate she is with her baby. Note other ways you see God at work in her life. Let her see that your life isn’t all put together by sharing your own story of God’s faithfulness in hard places.

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We are so thankful you found us here!

Momma Theologians is a new motherhood ministry podcast and our mission is to revive spiritual growth in the midst of motherhood.

We offer resources, articles, essays, a monthly devotional newsletter and more at www.mommatheologians.com

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Kyleigh Dunn

Kyleigh Dunn is wife to Ezra and mother to three young girls. She reads obsessively, enjoys playing oboe and piano, and seeks to spread awareness of perinatal mood and anxiety disorders in the church and apply theology and biblical encouragement to moms experiencing them. Kyleigh blogs at www.thesojourningdunns.wordpress.com and can be found on Instagram @kyleighrdunn or Facebook @thesojourningdunns.

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I no longer feel afraid when I recognize the impact of spiritual warfare in my life. In fact, after I brushed myself off and continued my walk, I felt a sense of calm steadying me. There was no quick fix for the multitude of earthly problems in my life, but when it comes to principalities there is only one solution: Prayer.

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Let’s look at this verse together:

Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 1 Corinthians 13:7

I don’t know about you, but there are some cultural messages ringing in my ears as I read this, particularly as a woman who was raised in the Evangelical church. Messages about long suffering, never complaining, always looking at the bright side, and what it means to be strong. I especially want to better understand the word “endure,” as in “[Love] endures all things.” Like the story I shared in this post, there are moments when I feel I cannot endure anything more. Is Paul suggesting that God wants me to try harder in those moments, to push through, or shrug it off? That doesn’t fit the character of Christ I see in the New Testament, who is constantly walking alongside, healing, and comforting. It contradicts His own words when He says in Matthew 11:30, “My yolk is easy, my burden is light.”

In Greek, the word “endure” is translated from the word “hypomenō,” which can mean “to stay under or behind.” When we face trials and are overwhelmed, we should recall that Christ promised us a yolk that is easy. This does not mean our trials will be small from an earthly-perspective, but that through Christ we can experience them as a light burden. We must ask for His help, claim His scriptural promises, and place ourselves under and behind His spiritual protection.

What is one thing in your life that feels hard to endure right now? Pray for God to meet you in your suffering. Text three sisters in Christ to pray with you for God’s protection and covering.

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We are so thankful you found us here!

Momma Theologians is a new motherhood ministry podcast and our mission is to revive spiritual growth in the midst of motherhood.

We offer resources, articles, essays, a monthly devotional newsletter and more at www.mommatheologians.com

Be sure to follow us on social media @mommatheologians

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Adrienne Garrison

Adrienne Garrison lives in Bloomington, Indiana with her husband and their two little ones, soaking up the daily grace of a steadfast God. She is a contributing writer at Momma Theologians and Coffee + Crumbs, and her short stories have been featured in Literary Mama and LETTERS Journal. Adrienne believes magic takes the form of heart-to-heart conversations, petit-fours, and walks in the woods. You can find more of her writing and sign up for her newsletter at adriennegarrison.com

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If you want to utilize the Belt of Truth in your family the most important thing that you can do is to teach scripture and then live it out.

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Enjoy our continuing mini-series by Morgan D. Farr on the Armor of God. Listen to her first episode, "Isolation in Motherhood: A Call to Arms" and her introduction to this series, "Armor of God."

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We are so thankful you found us here! 

Momma Theologians is a new motherhood ministry podcast and our mission is to revive spiritual growth in the midst of motherhood.

We offer resources, articles, essays, a monthly devotional newsletter and more at www.mommatheologians.com

Be sure to follow us on social media @mommatheologians

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Morgan D. Farr

Morgan is a Texas-loving, succulent-cultivating, book nerd and aspiring author. An Army wife of 8 years, Morgan has learned to lean heavily on Christ as she walks this military life. Morgan and her husband have four young children and two fantastic dogs.

As a jack-of-all-trades Morgan is always working on projects. When she isn’t homeschooling her children, writing for Christian publications, or training her Dutch Shepherd, Morgan can be found listening to Texas country music while crafting, lifting weights, or reading. Morgan is best known for her discipline, organization, and love of turquoise jewelry.

You can connect with Morgan on her blog (morgandfarr.blogspot.com) and on all major social media platforms using her handle: morgandfarr.

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Rather than groan about sleepless nights and ornery children, we can thank God for the grace that he has given us today. We can pour out our lives for our families, ministries, communities—trusting that tomorrow when we rise, he will again fill our cups. We don’t have to hoard our resources in fear of not being sufficient, because God has made us sufficient through his Son (2 Corinthians 3:5). Each morning, we wake up to another abundance of his faithful mercy and love (Lamentations 3:22-23).

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Bethany Broderick

Bethany Broderick lives in Birmingham, Alabama, with her husband, three-year-old daughter, and one-year-old son. A recovering perfectionist, she writes about resting in God’s grace in the everyday moments of life as a woman, wife, and mother. She is on the blog contributor team at The Joyful Life and has featured articles at Risen Motherhood, Coffee + Crumbs, and Kindred Mom. You can find her words on her personal blog (dwellingword.com) and on Instagram (@bethanygbroderick).

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As we sit in the reality of the cost of love, of the God who submitted  His own body to the brutality of a criminal’s death on a cross in order to become bread and wine for all who are hungry and thirsty, let us prayerfully seek how we can better embody this extreme generosity of God towards our families, our neighbors, and our world.

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Kelsi Folsom

Kelsi Folsom is a poet and singer making her home in beautiful Kansas City with her husband and four young children. She navigates the ups and downs of marriage and motherhood with black coffee, her library card, and a no.2 pencil. Her essays and poems are published in Motherly, Coffee and Crumbs, Grit and Virtue, Verily Magazine, Mothers Always Write, Kindred Mom, and elsewhere. She is the author of three collections of poetry, Breaking the Jar (Finishing Line Press, 2022), Buried in the Margins (Finishing Line Press, 2020), and Words the Dirt Meant to Share (Desert Willow Press, 2018). Having lived in multiple countries and moved fourteen times since getting married, Kelsi loves encouraging women to find refreshment and comfort in the moment-by-moment friendship of Jesus Christ. She firmly believes in the power of true worship to foster healing through the embodiment of God’s unconditional love. When she isn’t cooking for family and friends, she enjoys thrifting, reading Bible commentaries, and occasionally putting her B.M. in Voice Performance to good use. Connect with her on IG @kelsifolsom and sign up for her quarterly newsletter The Shameless Beauty Digest.

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We should enjoy Christmas and exemplify the true reason for celebrating it in our culture, but we must also strive to ensure Easter is not downgraded in our hearts. We don’t need to do more for Easter—in fact that would be the opposite of the gospel—but we can marvel at what Christ has accomplished and the way it informs how we live today.

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Jenny Marcelene

Jenny Marcelene spent six years living in conservative Muslim countries and desires to help families catch a glimpse of how God is at work among the nations. With a background in biblical languages, Jenny relishes plunging into the depths of Bible study and sharing these jewels from Scripture through writing.

Her publishing credits include online articles in The Gospel Coalition and Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, print and online stories for global agencies, a five-day global devotional for a second-grade class, and a feature story in Adoption magazine. She worked as the Children’s Ministry and Curriculum Coordinator at her previous church and wrote an in-house resource for parents to disciple their children. Jenny lives with her husband and two sons in Chicagoland. You can drop by her blog for ways to cultivate global family prayer.

What thoughts come to your mind when you hear the word “theologian”?

You may imagine an older man, wearing thick glasses, sitting in an office decorated with multiple degrees; someone academic, philosophical and smart. Maybe you think it’s a title for seminary professors, your pastor or authors of Christian books.

Sometimes this title is understood to be similar to that of an astronaut: Years upon years of training, launching into the vastness of outer space, circulating high above the earth. While there’s a holy wonder in traveling the cosmos, it’s hard to understand the relevance to our own, everyday lives, planted firmly on earthly soil.

Is this how you envision “theologians?”

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Amber Thiessen

Amber loves equipping women to navigate the chaos and calm of life’s changes by applying the gospel to everyday moments. After six years in East Africa as church planters, they’re back on the Canadian prairies where her husband serves as pastor. They have three children. You'll find her hiding behind a book, exploring with her family in the woods, or writing on her blog, In The Vine. Connect with Amber on Facebook or Instagram @thiessenamber

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As we pour our hearts before the Lord with our children, we demonstrate that nothing is too hard for the Lord, that we can come to him, no matter how messy our hearts may be. I can't even count how many times the Lord has gloriously answered these desperate prayers and changed the entire course of our day.

When we take our children to the Lord in prayer, we help them to begin to fellowship with the one who understands, who sees, and who lived this same way, too.

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Katherine Pittman

Katherine Pittman is married to Geoffrey (an itinerant preacher) and homeschooling mom to three. She is the creator of Write the Word on my Heart, a Bible memory curriculum for little ones; and co-host of the Books and Parchments podcast. When they’re not on the road, the Pittmans make their home in central Virginia, gathering with and serving among the saints at Richmond Christian Fellowship. Connect with Katherine on Instagram, Facebook, or her blog.

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