It’s not easy – getting into the Word while the house is full of little ones who need us twenty-four hours a day. But it’s essential. If you’re struggling to spend time reading the Bible, if you’re reading but not getting much out of what you’re reading, if you just want some encouragement while you study your Bible — you’re in the right place! You can study the Bible, even […]
Read More →Establishing the Habit of Reading God’s Word
We need to be in God’s Word. His Word is food. His Word nourishes us. If we’re moms, we know all about the need to eat. Sometimes it feels like we spend almost all day planning meals, shopping for meals, cooking meals, serving meals, and cleaning up after meals. Our husbands and children need to eat. Without food, they would become weak and unhealthy, and eventually die. Without nourishment from […]
Read More →Desiring God’s Word
Have you ever felt like this? You know you should read your Bible, you plan to read your Bible, but you find that you don’t want to read your Bible? We need to ask God to give us the desire to study His Word. When God answers this prayer (and He will, because this prayer is clearly consistent with His will for our lives), it won’t mean that we will […]
Read More →The Law as a Door to the Gospel: The Sixth Commandment
The Westminster Larger Catechism can be a helpful tool when teaching our children the Ten Commandments. This catechism (which is simply a teaching tool in a question-and-answer format) was written by godly men and church leaders in the 17th century as an aid to teaching congregants the basic doctrines and beliefs of the faith. The language is a bit difficult, but taking the time to unravel the older English will […]
Read More →Not Happy?
I love children’s Bible story books. Books like The Jesus Storybook Bible , by Sally Lloyd-Jones, and the Read Aloud Bible Stories, by Ella Lindvall, do such a good job of distilling the biblical accounts into a form that speaks to not-so-young me! Our kids all grew up on the Read Aloud Bible Stories, and now we get to enjoy them along with our grandchildren. We call them the “Step-Step […]
Read More →The Law as a Door to the Gospel: The Fifth Commandment
“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you” (Exodus 20:12). Honor your parents. The first four of the Ten Commandments address our duty to God. The last six outline our duty to man. The first relationship considered is the parent-child relationship, which in principle also applies to any other authority relationships. This is the first […]
Read More →Justice and Mercy
My daughters and I are Les Miserables fans. I think we first started with an audio version of the story from Focus on the Family. Then we found recordings of the musical, the 10th anniversary performance, the 25th anniversary performance, and enjoyed a live Broadway Across America performance from our perch in the very, very back row of the top balcony. It’s a gritty story, full of sinners and the ugly consequences of […]
Read More →The Law as a Door to the Gospel
“All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23). “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” (Romans 6:23) Are you teaching your children the Ten Commandments? Those ten concise commandments encompass every sin we or our children could ever think of committing. The same commandments also make it quite clear that we will never please […]
Read More →The Power of a Promise
I gave the devotional at the bridal shower of a long-time family friend (and former Doorposts employee) this past weekend. I thought I’d share it, slightly modified, as today’s post. That will leave me more time to work on posts for our upcoming “31-Days-in-Psalm-37-for-Busy-Busy-Mamas” that we’ll be sharing in March. Stay tuned! 🙂 Forty-one days from today, Juli, you will celebrate one of the most important days of your […]
Read More →Reaching Out
“She stretcheth out her hand to the poor,; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.” (Proverbs 31:20) Some of my fondest memories of my mother are of times when she was serving others. She quietly loved, cared for, and encouraged the elderly in our church, taking them shopping, helping them clean, and just sitting down to visit with them. I remember dear, white-haired Mr. Misner. He loved my […]
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