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Intentional Marriage (HT: MakingHome)
Preach, preach, PREACH IT sister MakingHome! The Intentional Marriage
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New Topic?
I just pitched a potentially new topic to Peacemaker Ministries for their conference next month and I’d LOVE to know whether you think it sounds interesting/helpful/etc: How to Grow Redemptive (and Enjoyable!) Relationships among Our Women—Especially When We Disagree: Do you have a hard time even imagining what it would be like for the relationships among your women to be united, mutually-encouraging, and overflowing with grace—especially when you disagree on important topics? In this workshop, we will discuss some of the most commonly-divisive topics among women (working outside of the home, children and childrearing, domestic duties, educational choices, money, sex, in-laws, etc.) and prayerfully consider some biblical and practical ways…
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What a Husband Must Be (HT: PureChurch)
Pastor Anyabwile is continuing his study on marriage and family and we are all the blessed recipients of his work of humility, scholarship, faith, and love. Don’t miss this latest post: What a Husband Must Be In it, he lists five things that drive women to marry men who are not prepared to lead in marriage. (Oh oh oh! But I’ve heard all five of these reasons a lot too.) He also lists five things that a husband must be. Consider number 4: 4. Must lead in selflessness. “…nourishes and cherishes….” The husband should be the first one in the family to go without, sacrifice, or lay it down for…
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Confessing sins to one another … (HT: ByFaith Magazine)
There is a great article by Pastor Ben Hames over at ByFaith Magazine having to do with confessing sins one to another: It Has Become Clearer … That We Should Confess Our Sins to One Another Consider just an excerpt: ” … Many in the church have begun to see the value of having a Christian brother or sister to hold them accountable in life. This service to one another is a great example of the Church of Christ living as vivified community. Confession moves us beyond the cognitive and internal toward the tangible and at least mildly communal. Through this, believers find they are more honest with themselves, more…
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Enjoying (learning from / being comforted by / being CHALLENGED by) Helen Roseveare
After a strong recommendation from Noel Piper in a bookstore mailing from WTS, I ordered a number of books by Helen Roseveare. This week I started Give Me This Mountain and I am thoroughly enjoying it. I also had to chuckle when I did a quick Google search of her name to learn a little more about her–and I found out that Snopes & TruthOrFiction had to do entries on her because of a story that has circulated around email-land for years re: a dying baby, a hot water bottle, and a doll. (BTW–Please please oh PLEASE don’t ever forward any emails, well, really to ANYONE EVER–with limited exceptions–but FOR…
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Peacemaker Staff (funny!) Conference Video
My darling Fred just posted a funny video over at the Peacemaker Ministries blog. You can even see his (messy!) office in it … I hope you enjoy! And I also hope that you will give serious consideration to attending the Peacemaker Conference next month in Orlando. I’m already scheduling visits during the conference with online and “real life” (and online who’ve become real life) friends. Hope to see you there! Yours, Tara B.
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Grace and Truth (HT: Randy Alcorn)
Recently, I’ve been troubled by two memories and this morning I figured out why. – The first is just ONE LINE from a (wonderful!) sermon I heard recently. It had to do with a woman being confronted by her husband and (over)-responding with despair and (extreme) anxiety. The pastor (whose sermon was otherwise brilliant and gospel-soaked), made some sort of passing comment about her “temper tantrum.” This troubled me. – The second is a blog comment that a man once made in response to a question Pastor JollyBlogger posted on his (wonderful!) blog having to do with why certain women in his church struggle so much with ungodly shame. I…
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They are meant to be put to death.
More wisdom from Ed Welch: “Self-serving needs are not meant to be satisfied; they are meant to be put to death.” (When People are Big and God is Small)
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Free Copy of My Favorite CCEF Booklet
I have a number of copies of my ABSOLUTE FAVORITE Christian Counseling and Educational Foundation (“CCEF”) booklet: Pleasure (by David Powlison) … and I’d like to give them away FOR FREE to YOU! All you have to do is leave a comment letting me know you’re interested by midnight Saturday (August 16), and I’ll pop a copy in the mail to you. (Oh! You might want to be sure that I have your snail-mail address too. You can email it to me at info@tarabarthel.com.) Let me tempt you with just a snippet from the notes I took as I was reading this rich, encouraging, and convicting booklet: “Have you ever…
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Hiking in the Beartooths
We had a super fun morning hiking in the Beartooth Mountains near our home. (I still marvel at the fact that we can spontaneously decide to go hiking and be in such beauty in just one hour!) On the drive, I reviewed our Bear Aware safety tips. Fred asked if that was really wise (since even in bear country, actual bear encounters are so rare and I’m so skittery about them already)–but I assured him that it was, at least for me. 😉 Then, after letting a family pass us on the trail because they were all on horseback (how fun is that!), we were off … How do you…
