Shortly after my husband died, I read a book on widowhood by Joyce Rogers. One sentence in her introduction caught me up short and brough...

I wrote previously (April 2, 2019) that "keepers at home" can also be translated "workers at home." The word keeping carries the connotat...

As women who claim to be followers of Jesus Christ, God calls us to the most important task of being a keeper (guardian) and worker at ho...

The fifth life practicum older women are to teach younger women is to be "homemakers." That's how the NKJV translates the compound Greek w...

Becoming chaste women of God has two sides: a turning to and a turning away from. We turn our faces, our lives, our focus toward the face...

This fourth blog on what it means to be chaste has been a while in coming due to two weeks of unexpected travel, but at last I'm getting ...

Probably the most common understanding of chastity is "sexually pure." I had primarily connected this definition with virginity, and it c...

After taking most of December off to get other writing done, I am returning again to Titus 2 and the study of the word chaste. My first b...

The fourth quality that should characterize us as women of God, which older women are to teach younger women, is chastity. When I first r...

Throughout this month we have looked at the word discreet through several different lenses. The first Titus 2 blog in November looked at ...

Last week, in attempting to dig deeper into the meaning of discreet, I wrote about being circumspect and tactful. The Webster's New Colle...

The nuances included in the word discreet are many. As I wrote last week, the word discreet is loaded with meaning. It is a very practica...

As this is the first Wednesday of a new month, I am going to move on to the next topic in Titus 2 that older women are instructed to teac...

Before having children and even when our babies are small, most of us think phileo love comes naturally. And in many ways it does. Howeve...

One of the most loving things we can do for our children is to teach them to work. Life is primarily made up of work. Our human nature te...

Children take time. Children need time—our time. It's not enough to feed and bathe and clothe them. Meeting a person's basic needs consti...

Love for our children can be expressed in many ways, but in my opinion three clear action items top the list. These three things help us ...

This month in my Titus 2 blog, I want to turn our attention to the second topic older women are to teach younger women: loving your child...

It's interesting that none of the seven things older women are to teach younger women are really about meeting our own needs. They are a...

I have come to believe through both personal experience and observant listening that our tone of voice is the primary way we communicate ...