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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...

Rebecca
Oct 25, 20193 min read
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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...

Rebecca
Sep 24, 20192 min read
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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...

Rebecca
May 7, 20192 min read
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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...

Rebecca
Apr 2, 20194 min read
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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...

Rebecca
Feb 26, 20194 min read
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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...

Rebecca
Feb 19, 20193 min read
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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...

Rebecca
Jan 23, 20193 min read
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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...

Rebecca
Jan 10, 20194 min read
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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...

Rebecca
Dec 6, 20184 min read
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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...

Rebecca
Nov 27, 20184 min read
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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...

Rebecca
Nov 21, 20183 min read
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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...

Rebecca
Nov 14, 20183 min read
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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...

Rebecca
Nov 7, 20183 min read
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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....

Rebecca
Oct 31, 20184 min read
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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...

Rebecca
Oct 24, 20185 min read
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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...

Rebecca
Oct 17, 20183 min read
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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...

Rebecca
Oct 10, 20186 min read
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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...

Rebecca
Oct 3, 20184 min read
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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...

Rebecca
Sep 27, 20184 min read
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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...

Rebecca
Sep 19, 20183 min read
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