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Upholding the Sixth Commandment Without Breaking the Ninth

Growing With Teenagers

Why Do We Have Children's Ministry?

Seeds Buried

You're Invited! A monthly study group

The Bible's Costly Assumptions About Families

Think-Aloud Chat: Children's Books

"Bringing Forth Life" Book Review

The Necessary Desperation {bonus}

God Will Not Do What We Imagine {bonus}

#54. Stretched, Strained, Sustained

Q&A: How to Fill the Time?

#53. Ruined, Recycled, Restored

Affection Follows Attention

Abundance and Loss in Motherhood

Evangelism Think-Aloud Chat

#52. Two Ways to Ruin Motherhood

Christmas Greetings Uncut

#51. Obedience is More Fun

What if it Doesn't Work Out Well?

Q&A1

#50. Unrestrained Cute Blasphemy

How do Kids Become Independent?

Maternal Mood Strategies

Maternal Mood and Mental Health

Digital Kids Think Aloud Chat

#49. Belong and Obey

To the Young Women, Thinking Ahead

#48. The Perils of Teaching Obedience

#47. Taught to Obey, By Whom?

#46. Some Basic Features of Teaching Obedience

Bible Reading Challenge {Think Aloud Chat}

#45c. Ideas That Hinder Obedience: The Threat to Grace

Boredom {Think Aloud Chat}

#45b. Ideas That Hinder Obedience: Belief Before Behaviour

#45a. Ideas That Hinder Obedience: Total Depravity

#44. If Your Theology Stops Obedience...

Teaching Kids to Obey Jesus {Think Aloud Chat}

Christian Music for Kids {Think Aloud Chat}

#43. Why We Don't Teach Kids to Obey Jesus

#42. The Mission of Motherhood: Teach Them to Obey Jesus

Bible Reading in Our Family {Think Aloud Chat}

#41. Wrong Ideas About Mission Stifle Motherhood

#40. "Go" is Not the Only Verb in the Great Commission

Losing Our Maternal Bristles {bonus}

#39. Overflowing Home

#38. Constant Embodied Worship

#37. Why Motherhood is Boring

#36. The Less Than Ideal Church

Reclaiming Time Without Urgency

No Heavy Lifting {Christmas Bonus}

#35. How Kids Grow to be in Church

#34. Unseen Worship

#33. Is Worship the right Word for Sunday?

A Word Between Articles

#32. Church Full of Kids, but No Kids' Church

#31. When the Church Loves Children

#30. Better than a Playdate

#29. Something for the Kids

Churches Need Revived Families {bonus}

#28. Too Simple for Experts

#27. Feeding on the Bible When the Meals are Interrupted

#26. Children a Hindrance to Abiding in Jesus?

#25. The Inconvenient, Inefficient, Indispensable Church

#24. The Non-Negotiable, Essential Duty of Motherhood

#23. The Good Word Lights Up the Good We Are to Give

Unseen Motherhood {bonus}

#22. Withhold Not Good

#21. Choosing Timely Motherhood

Because I've Just Numbered 40

Psalm 90 {bonus}

#20. Mothering is Temporary, But Not Disposable

#19. Your Limited Life is No Accident

#18. Good Motherhood is Limited and Afraid

#17. How Dads and Mums Might (Accidentally) Reform Churches

#16. A Variety of Difficulties

Biographical Interlude {bonus}

#15. Hedging Our Bets

#14. About Fathers

#13. More on Marriage--Motherhood as Helping

#12. Responsibility: Men, Women and Marriage

#11. It's Good to be Busy at Home

#10. Good Motherhood Defined

#9. Our Appetite for Happiness is Meant to be Big

#8. Mothers, We're Awkward About Goodness and That's Not Good

#7. God's Goodness Causes Happiness

We Aren't Good Mums and we Don't Deserve to be Happy, but {bonus}

#6. Duty is Not the Enemy of Happiness

But What Can You Do?

#5. You Are Inadequate, But That is Not All

Inadequate Mothers {bonus}

#4 God-Centred Duty, the Conduit of Love

Giving Children What They Want {bonus}

#3 Duty Devouring Motherhood

#2 The Light and Duty in Light Duties

Bonus: Growing Our Own Teeth

#1 Before We Begin

Light Duties Episode 0