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

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

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 home. This is to be ou...

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

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 of God, and we turn...

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 back to it. The fina...

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

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 blog on what it means...

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

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

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

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 practical word. I'm afraid, ...

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 teach younger women: to ...

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

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 tends to balk at that;...

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 constitutes one kind of lo...

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 keep our priorities ...

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 children. This Greek word...

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 about our responsibil...

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