Over the course of about three years, I wrote more than a hundred articles for TRUTH AT HOME; here are my favorites!
I compiled this list as a resource that readers can continue to benefit from, in addition to all the fresh posts on my second blog, The Heavenly Hearth (you should check it out!).
Enjoy, and may these articles prove helpful to you:
- The Ugly Pattern We Need to Avoid — But Don’t
- Small House Homekeeping Tips
- Superheroines vs. Homekeepers
- When You Feel Close to Quits
- Unhappy with Life? Thankfulness Produces Joy!
- Dear Diary, Today I Lost It . . .
- And After the Storm, a Calm . . .
- How We Introduce “The Facts of Life” to Our Kids
- Intentional Rest (from the mother of a large, homeschooling family)
- Spontaneous Education
- 9 Things I’m Learning About Homeschooling
- Why a Literature-based Approach?
- Chores for Children: How We’re Establishing Routines in our House
- One of the Benefits of Home Education: An Example from Real Life
- Best-kept Secrets of a Busy Family
- Why Can’t I Ever Drink My Coffee Hot?
- Being a YES Parent
- How Is This Real Life?
- A Woman’s Glory: The Power of Pictures and What They Represent
- The Correlation Between Prophesying and Praising God
- Video Q&A with Jeremy Gardiner of the Head Covering Movement
- Long Hair: Why I Have it and How I Manage it (video)
- Ten Examples of Headcovering in the Old Testament (video)
- A Gift that Made Me Smile
- Straightforward English Helps us Understand Headcovering
- Reasons from the Bible for Headcovering (video in Spanish)
- Reclaiming Biblical Womanhood (video)
- Four Reasons for Headcovering (video)
- Addressing Some Headcovering Objections
- 30-Second Headcovering Styles, and Why Hair isn’t the Covering (video)
- A Woman who is Fulfilled at Home
- Verses on Feminine Quietness
- Deborah and Miriam: Prescriptive or Descriptive?
- How do I Lovingly Submit to my Husband . . . When We Disagree? (Head-covering)
- Why the “Small” Matter of Headcovering is NOT a Small Matter
- She Thought Rules Were Constricting
- A Smart Man’s View of Headcovering
- Is Headcovering Divisive?
- Why is Headcovering So Hard?
- Straightening
- Is Headcovering Hypocritical?
- My Headcoverings (a glimpse into my heart)
- The Blessings of Headcovering
- Reviving a Neglected Ordinance: The Meaning of the Headcovering
- My Headcovering Experience
Modesty / Skirts & Dresses Only
- How I Organize My Skirts-and-Dresses-Only Closet
- Modest Swimwear at the Beach
- Being Attractive and Beautiful: Is it Wrong?
- An Honest Look at Pants in the Light of God’s Word
- Thoughts on Wearing Makeup
- Choosing Skirts with the Right Fabric
- Wearing Skirts and Dresses Only: A Few Points of Principle
- How to Deal with a Conviction Crisis (about dressing modestly)
- Getting the Trick of Skirts and Dresses Only: Some Tips from My Own Experience
- Is Cross Dressing Still an “Abomination”?
- So . . . Why shouldn’t I wear pants?
- One Week of Modest Dress: A Peak Inside My Wardrobe
- Letter of Encouragement to Modest Ladies
- Addicted (dealing with pornography)
- Why I Wear Skirts and Dresses Only
- Avoiding an “Us vs. Them” Mentality
- New Food Adventures
- How I’m Slimming Down and Feeling Better with Trim Healthy Mama
- Two Major Concerns about Network Marketing with Young Living — and Their Answers
- The End of Your Fork
- Why Test God?: Finding an Alternative to Chemicals
- How I Was Introduced to Essential Oils
- Coconut Oil Wonders
The Blessing of Children / Quiverfull
- The Church and Contraceptives: Freedom to Choose to be Foolish?
- The Weak Things of the World
- Who’s Design IS This?–What’s WRONG with Our Family-building Approach, and How We Can Fix It
- What Would Jesus Do: Preach? (Abortion)
- “Blobs of Tissue” and “Clumps of Cells”: Unveiling God’s Mysterious Handiwork (Abortion)
- How Birth Control Destroys Respect for Life and for the Giver of Life
- A Dream I Hold Dear (Abortion)
- Our “Acceptable” Abuse of a Woman’s Needs
- Another Reason to Never Use Condoms or Spermicides
- Logical Conclusions (Abortion)
- “. . . do not forbid them . . .” (Abortion)
- “Breastfeeding God’s Way”
- Lactation Amenorrhea, and Why it Works for Me
- “If It Isn’t Easy, It Isn’t God’s Will”: A Rebuttal
- Birthing God’s Mighty Warriors: Book Review
- Contraceptives and Their Impact on Society
- What Does God Say About Having Children?
- How “Natural” Is NFP?
- Breaking the Faith Barrier
- Birth Control Rant
- An Invaluable Connection
- Being Feminist is Not Feminine
- Dawn Breaks as a New Child is Born
- Adjusting to life with a newborn . . . again!
- In the Middle of Trials, but Full of Good Cheer
- “Do You Know What Causes That?”
- “Is the LORD’S hand waxed short?”
- Intimacy Without Barriers
- The Pregnancy Fog
- Treasuring God’s Design: The Woman’s Special Role
- My Changing Perception of Motherhood
- Call to ACTION
- How I Deal with Discouragement (video)
- New Intro YouTube video!
- And Then Somehow . . . I Stopped
- What I Wish I Would Have Known as a Younger Woman
- A Dream on Fire
- Go and Possess What God has Given You
- Choosing Joy, Rejecting Negativity
- God’s Respect Toward Us
- Both Grace and Truth
- Walking in the Light
- What God Hates
- With His Help (overcoming doubts about salvation)
- Finding
- IT Strikes Again
- No Looking Back
- I Thought I Was Free, But I Wasn’t
- Another Nightmare Attacks
- “For we walk by faith,” but I like to see where I’m going!
- How to Make a Bible Study Notebook (a look at mine)
- Brave Enough for Thanksgiving?
- Why Doesn’t God Hurry Up?