The Best Biblical Parenting Advice I Ever Got Came From a Man With No Kids | Christian Motherhood

The best mom advice I ever got came from a man who never had kids — Paul, in 1 Thessalonians. This one isn't a list of things you're doing wrong. It's a long, slow look at how Paul loved and raised up a brand-new church he only got a few weeks with before he was torn away — and everything motherhood can learn from his example. We walk through being the same person in every room ("as was his custom"), the ordinary women whose faith bent whole generations, giving your kids your actual life instead of a lesson plan, meeting each child one at a time, the way they catch it just by being near you, refusing to panic when the hard shows up, praying night and day like it's the main move instead of the last one, and being humble enough to send help when you can't be everywhere. And remember when we talked about raising Timothys? Here's the payoff — the Timothy a tired, faithful mama raised in a regular house becomes the very one God sends out to hold up a whole church. Scriptures: 1 Thessalonians 1:2, 1:5–6, 2:7–8, 2:11, 2:17–18, 3:2–3, 3:6, 3:10; 2 Timothy 1:5 (Lois & Eunice); and the backstory in Acts 17:1–4 — "as was his custom" and the leading women who believed. Join the Email list at Torigass.com