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With Eyes Wide Open

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is a good as dead: his eyes are closed.”

21Dec2009 | Mary Kassian | 1 comment | Continued

A Top-Secret-John-Piper-Family Recipe Just In Time For Christmas

OK, I admit it I’m a John Piper groupie. Love everything he writes, says, thinks. Been like this since I discovered Desiring God. (Was it over a decade ago?) Two years ago, I met his wife Noel. We kinda had dinner. (Not name dropping. It’s true. One of the greatest honors of my life. I [...]

17Dec2009 | Dannah Gresh | 0 comments | Continued

A Special Job

I came across this poem this morning that reminded me of the significance of the simple. In the economy of the Kingdom, the “what” always takes back seat to the “why.” What I do is not as important as why I do it.Â Giving someone a cup of cold water out of obedience to Christ is [...]

20Jul2009 | Mary Kassian | 1 comment | Continued

Studying Housework

In the late sixties, budding feminist sociologist Ann Oakley embarked on a study of the attitudes and work satisfaction of British housewives. She endeavored to statistically reveal the appalling nature of women’s working conditions in the home…According to Oakley, “Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.”

29Jun2009 | Mary Kassian | 2 comments | Continued

More than a Ball of Yarn

Several months ago, I ran into Zellers to buy a few things for the house. I rounded the corner from the aisle containing pillows and blankets into the next aisle, where I expected to find candles, vases, and home decor. But what I saw stopped me dead in my tracks.

22Jun2009 | Mary Kassian | 6 comments | Continued

Home, Sweet Mission Field (for singles)

If you and/or your local church are looking for ways to evangelize, opening your home is one of the best methods for reaching the lost. Most of us, however, are not using our homes as we should to reach our neighbors, friends, and relatives. Tragically, many of us don’t even know our neighbors. Yet through hospitality, we can meet our neighbors and be a lighthouse in spiritually dark neighborhoods.

20May2009 | Carolyn McCulley | 0 comments | Continued

Singular Hospitality

Lydia was a single woman, head of a household consisting mainly of servants. It was probably in her house that the first church in Philippi began to meet. Perhaps it was in her house that the church gathered to take up a collection to send Paul as he endured house arrest in Rome…It’s hard to know what precisely happened in Lydia’s home, except for this fact — her first act of ministry as a believer was to offer her home and hospitality.

11May2009 | Carolyn McCulley | 1 comment | Continued

Single & Fully Feminine

Of the seven qualities Paul urges Titus to have older women teach to younger women, only two are explicitly directed at married women and one to mothers. That leaves at least four for all women, married or single. The following are some ways in which God has given me the grace to apply the Titus 2 virtues in my life and genuinely enjoy my femininity as a single woman.

30Apr2009 | Carolyn McCulley | 2 comments | Continued