Rebecca
Attend to the practical
Shortly after my husband died, I read a book on widowhood by Joyce Rogers. One sentence in her introduction caught me up short and...
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Rebecca
- Sep 24, 2019
- 2 min
Guarding Through Formation
I wrote previously (April 2, 2019) that "keepers at home" can also be translated "workers at home." The word keeping carries the...
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Rebecca
- May 7, 2019
- 2 min
Making Our Homes Employment
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...
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Rebecca
- Apr 2, 2019
- 4 min
Hardest Job in the World
The fifth life practicum older women are to teach younger women is to be "homemakers." That's how the NKJV translates the compound Greek...
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Rebecca
- Feb 26, 2019
- 4 min
Lighting fires
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...
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Rebecca
- Feb 19, 2019
- 3 min
That Untouchable Subject
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...
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Rebecca
- Jan 23, 2019
- 3 min
Within the Vows of Marriage
Probably the most common understanding of chastity is "sexually pure." I had primarily connected this definition with virginity, and it...
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Rebecca
- Jan 10, 2019
- 4 min
Without Hypocrisy
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...
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Rebecca
- Dec 6, 2018
- 4 min
Chaste: purity
The fourth quality that should characterize us as women of God, which older women are to teach younger women, is chastity. When I first...
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Rebecca
- Nov 27, 2018
- 4 min
2 "Not" Words
Throughout this month we have looked at the word discreet through several different lenses. The first Titus 2 blog in November looked at...
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Rebecca
- Nov 21, 2018
- 3 min
Are you governed by the future?
Last week, in attempting to dig deeper into the meaning of discreet, I wrote about being circumspect and tactful. The Webster's New...
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Rebecca
- Nov 14, 2018
- 3 min
Discreet: Circumspect and Tactful
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...
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Rebecca
- Nov 7, 2018
- 3 min
Are you a safe person?
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...
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Rebecca
- Oct 31, 2018
- 4 min
Loving your children: Making memories
Before having children and even when our babies are small, most of us think phileo love comes naturally. And in many ways it does....
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Rebecca
- Oct 24, 2018
- 5 min
Loving Your Children: Teach Them to Work
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...
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Rebecca
- Oct 17, 2018
- 3 min
Loving your children: play with them
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...
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Rebecca
- Oct 10, 2018
- 6 min
Loving your children: the top 3 priorities
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...
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Rebecca
- Oct 3, 2018
- 4 min
Loving your children: Responsible for our own responses
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...
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Rebecca
- Sep 27, 2018
- 4 min
Loving Your Husband: Showing Gratitude
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...
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Rebecca
- Sep 19, 2018
- 3 min
Loving Your Husband: Tone of Voice
I have come to believe through both personal experience and observant listening that our tone of voice is the primary way we communicate...
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