A Family on a Mission

The Kingdom of God advances through families on a mission. While the very presence of family at an abortion mill speaks life to a woman who is considering abortion, the mission field in front of an abortion mill is also the perfect training ground for the next generation.

All Christ-followers are called to the mission field! We are called to be salt and light; to be in the world and not of it. Parents are to be teaching their children why they are not of this world, how and why to spiritually combat that which is of this world, and how and why to put feet on their Biblical beliefs.

In the homes where the culture is being engaged through active Gospel-centered ministry, Scripture is found to be being lived out harmoniously. These parents on this domestic mission field allow their children to live out Matthew 5:13-16, being salt and light to a dying world, while the parents obey the command given to them in Deuteronomy 6:6-9, perpetually instructing our children of the ways of God. They are engaging this culture as FAMILIES ON A MISSION! But why?

Please visit my friend Lisa's blog:  A 2nd Generation of Homeschooling to read the rest of this excellent post she shares here.  

Related Links:

Wondering how to start a pro-life ministry? - Visit Sidewalks4Life to help answer your questions and get your started.  

Please visit the blogs Pro-Life resource page for more information here.  

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The Most Difficult People to Witness to: Your Family

 But Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
Matthew 19:26

When I first started writing this post I wanted to title it, "How Not to Witness to Family Members."  I believe I have more qualifications in writing about all my failures and missed opportunities to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ with those I love dearly and desire to see in heaven one day.

Some of our family members think we have lost our minds and have chosen to have no communication with us anymore.   My hope today is to remind you of the hope in the One who truly saves and as the verse above reminds us, "with God all things are possible."

Please come visit me at Visionary Womanhood to read the rest of the post here.  

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Teaching Our Daughters to Clean a Home

Not all of us come into marriage and motherhood with the understanding of how to clean a home.  It can be a little overwhelming to the new bride and thankfully most of us started in very small surroundings so we could learn to clean and not be overwhelmed.  One of the important skills your daughters (and sons too) need to learn is how to clean a home.  It is not a natural skill to everyone to see what needs to be taken care of in cleaning a house.

One of the traits we have shared with our children many times is learning the skill of walking into a room and seeing what needs to be taken care of without being told.  Are the shelves untidy?  Pillows messed up?  Does it need vacuumed?  Fingerprints on the window?  Dust on the table?  The easiest way I found to train my daughter in the skill of cleaning a home was to work together with her one room at a time.

Please come visit me at Raising Homemakers to read the rest of the post here. 

Related Resources:

 Helping the Younger Women to be Keepers of Their Homes

Teaching the Younger Women

The Christian Homemaker's Handbook

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Encouraging Reminders for Your Mother's Day

Sharing with you today some encouraging reminders for us as Mother's and Christian Homemaker's from a beautiful book that I am just delighting every moment I get to sit and read - The Christian's Homemaker's Handbook. (affiliate link)

"I believe God, according to his creation order, equipped me as a woman with the creativity and nurturing instinct to nest into whatever place I would find myself and there with comfort and contentment prepare a shelter for me and for my family!  After all, being a Christian is not just doing certain things but doing everything a certain way, as my friend Mary Crowley used to say.  As I build into my life the disciplines prescribed by Christ, I find that there are unique tools I have at my disposal because I am a Christian.  I have chosen to follow Christ and to try to walk in his steps, to take on myself the disciplines of life he prescribes."

"Your work is one way to remind you and your family, and all who experience your hospitality, to remember their heavenly home."

"When you work in your home, you are constantly bringing beauty and order out of emptiness and chaos (dirty laundry on the floor becomes fresh clothing in the closets and drawers; within the clutter of papers and possessions are tools for work and play organized in their own assigned spaces; a box of recipes and bulging pantry can become delicious and attractively presented family meals; a blaring television or booming CD can become family conversation about the day with soothing music as a backdrop)."

"Nowhere but heaven will supply full satisfaction to the longing you have for home.  Yet here on earth you dare not neglect to remind those whom you love of  the ultimate hope in Christ to be in His blessed presence.    That eschatological expectation must be nourished by existential details and hard work because the deepest longing for home is part of God's gift to human hearts.  For this reason, women do want to know more about doing the tasks of home more efficiently and more creatively."

~All above quotes taken from The Christian Homemaker's Handbook  (affiliate link) by Dorothy Kelley Patterson & Pat Ennis.  Please see a more detailed review of the book here.  

The woman who makes a sweet, beautiful home, filling it with love and prayer and purity, is doing something better than anything else her hands could find to do beneath the skies. A true mother is one of the holiest secrets of home happiness. God sends many beautiful things to this world, many noble gifts; but no blessing is richer than that which He bestows in a mother who has learned love's lessons well, and has realized something of the meaning of her sacred calling.
 J.R. Miller

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