Christianity Begins in the Home

Some words to ponder today and to think of every day:

Christianity begins in the home. If not there, it is nowhere. We may attend meetings, and sing hymns, and join devoutly in prayer. We may give money to the poor, and send missionaries and Bibles to the heathen. We may organize societies of every description for doing good. We may get up church fairs, and tea-parties and tableaux and picnics. We may, in short, devote all our time and all our means to doing good, and yet not be the true and earnest Christians we ought to be, after all.

If they cannot say of us in the family at home; “He, or she, is a Christian, we know it, we feel it,” –if home is not a better and happier place for our living in it, if there is not an influence going out from us, day by day, silently drawing those about us in the right direction, then it is time for us to stop where we are, and begin to examine our profession to the name of Christian.

Christianity. Christ-likeness. Is that ours? Are we possessed of that? Are we patient, kind, long-suffering, forbearing, seeking with all our hearts to do good, dreading with all our hearts to do evil? For if we are Christ’s we shall be like Him; and the first fruits, and the best fruits of our daily living will be in the better and happier lives of those who are about us day by day.

~ John Angell James in Golden Thoughts of Mother, Home and Heaven, edited by Gene Fedele.

How is it with you at home, dear mother? Do your children witness Christ-likeness in your attitude, countenance, and behavior every day? Does your husband? What good does it do for our husbands and children when they see us worried, impatient, fretful, or angry?

Oh, dear mothers, let us ponder and meditate upon these words. Let us bow before the Lord in humility and ask for forgiveness for where we have strayed and erred. Let us repent of our sins and lack of love for our families. Let us ask for the Lord’s help to do as He wills, rather than what our sinful hearts desire.

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(Painting is A Mother's Darling Painting by George Goodwin Kilburn)

Christians and Spiritual Things

The amount of loafing practiced by the average Christian in spiritual things would ruin a concert pianist if he allowed himself to do the same thing in the field of music. The idle puttering around that we see in church circles would end the career of a big league pitcher in one week. No scientist could solve his exacting problem if he took as little interest in it as the rank and file of Christians take in the art of being holy. The nation whose soldiers were as soft and undisciplined as the soldiers of the churches would be conquered by the first enemy that attacked it. Triumphs are not won by men in easy chairs. Success is costly. 

If we would progress spiritually, we must separate ourselves unto the things of God and concentrate upon them to the exclusion of a thousand things the worldly man considers important. We must cultivate God in the solitudes and the silence; we must make the kingdom of God the sphere of our activity and labor in it like a farmer in his field, like a miner in the earth. 

A. W. Tozer Sermon: Heart-Seekers

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The Church's Responsibility in the World

THE "CHURCHES" of AMERICA are responsible for the lgbbbtqpp. They failed to teach that there is no gospel without the family. They failed to teach that as males and females we have a duty and a responsibility to be married, MALE AND FEMALE, and that the primary purpose of our marriage is the procreative conjugal estate. Romance is the biggest fallacy ever put on the public. It has created a false doctrine and identity and false expectations within marriage. The fallacy of romance has caused marriages to nothing short of a fornication, because the idea of children being a blessing and a reward and true riches from God himself is secondary to getting married and just having sex. And not viewing this as a duty and responsibility to be bearing children as often as God would reward you.

~Mrs. Mosser 

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What Fats Are Healthy?

Part of being good homemakers and taking care of our families is learning about making and feeding them healthy food--food that will bring health to their bodies and not sickness!  I am so thankful for the Lord bringing information into my life many years ago on how to truly eat healthy.  There is so much information (and mis-information) out there with regards to what is healthy, but the Lord was so gracious to show me about eating real, whole foods prepared traditionally when I was searching for answers. 

Here is some information about fats that you may not know:

"The demonized saturated fats--which Americans are trying to avoid---are not the cause of our modern diseases. In fact, they play many important roles in the body chemistry:

*Saturated fatty acids constitute at least 50% of the cell membranes, giving them necessary stiffness and integrity so they can function properly.
*They play a vital role in the health of our bones. For calcium to be effectively incorporated into the skeletal structure, at least 50% of the dietary fats should be saturated. They lower Lp(a), a substance in the blood that indicates proneness to heart disease.
*They protect the liver from alcohol & other toxins, such as Tylenol.
*They enhance the immune system.
*They are needed for the proper utilization of essential fatty acids. Elongated omega-3 fatty acids are better retained in the tissues when the diet is rich in saturated fats.
*Saturated 18-carbon stearic acid & 16-carbon palmitic acid are the preferred foods for the heart, which is why the fat around the heart muscle is highly saturated. The heart draws on this reserve of fat in times of stress.
*Short- and medium-chain saturated fatty acids have important antimicrobial properties. They protect us against harmful microorganisms in the digestive tract."

~Nourishing Traditions (affiliate link*)

Learn more about fats and their effects on your health here.

*This means Blessed Homemaking may receive a small percentage of your purchase, if you decide to get this book for yourself.  We've owned this book for several years and have found it so helpful. It's full of information about healthy foods, and great recipes.

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No Greater Task Than Making a Home

It is the simple fact that there is no greater task, responsibility and privilege in this world than to make a home. It may well be that when women are involved in the hundred and one wearing duties which children and a home bring with them, they may say: “If only I could be done with all this, so that I could live a truly religious life.” There is in fact nowhere where a truly religious life can better be lived than within the home. 

In the last analysis there can be no greater career than that of homemaking. Many a man, who has set his mark upon the world, has been enabled to do so simply because someone at home loved him and tended him. It is infinitely more important that a mother should be at home to put her children to bed and hear them say their prayers than that she should attend all the public and Church meetings in the world. 

It has been said that consecration is that which makes drudgery divine; and there is no place where consecration can be more necessarily and beautifully shown than within the four walls of the place which we call home. The world can do without its committee meetings; it cannot do without its homes; and a home is not a home when the mistress of the home is absent from it.

~W. Barclay, in The Letters to Timothy, Titus, and Philemon

Oh, what a beautiful and blessed quote!  So often, we Christian women, even in the church, are discouraged from our great homemaking duties.  We receive no encouragement from the pulpit, no recognition of our great duties, no realization that we are doing a great work at home, raising up the future generations which will hopefully fill the churches.  Instead, we often only hear how our children will be taught at church instead of by us, or that we women must be at every church meeting or we are thereby neglecting our Chrisitan duty.  There are so many things trying to take us away from home and being keepers there.  But at home, at home, is our blessed duty unto our Lord.  Let us be happy making a beautiful, Christ-centered home for our families.

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What is a Christian Woman's Ministry?

Where is your ministry?

This is Part 2 in a series by Mrs. Mosser. You can read the first part here.

The previous post on the silly reasons women send their children to school was about the child being a light. This one discusses their own 'light'.

Here is reason number 2: My ministry is to other women, and I can't do that if I'm homeschooling. Or, I have Bible Study Thursday mornings. How can I do that if I'm homeschooling?

First off, your first ministry is NOT to other women, but to your husband and children. Back to Titus 2:3-5!

The aged women likewise, that they be in behavior as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

It says here to love your husbands and children. When you refuse to minister to your own children by sending them off, you are, according to this passage, blaspheming the Word of God. Is that what you want? That may not be your desire, but it's what you're doing. The bible says to obey is better than sacrifice.

When you pass off the spiritual care of your children to the wolves, you are not only sending them to hell, you are teaching the other women false doctrine. You are blaspheming God's word here too! They will also send their little lambs to the wolves because you are saying it's perfectly acceptable. You are saying, by your actions, that the Word of God is fallible, and that you don't have to obey it. You are saying that it's ok to disobey some passages of Scripture because, well, me!

Hear, O Israel: the LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
Deuteronomy 6:4-9

Here it tells us that we are to be teaching our own children at home. We cannot teach them adequately the Word of God when they are away from home the majority of the day!

Another point you make to your children is that they are not worthy of your time and effort, but look at what it says in Mark 8:35-37:

For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it. For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

What shall it profit you if you save all these other women while sending your own flesh and blood to hell?

But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
1 Timothy 5:8

This may not be talking about your child's soul, but I think we can glean some good doctrine. If you are not providing the solid, godly teaching of the Word, without allowing outside voices and influences that steal the heart of your children, you are also worse than an infidel.

Your children, after your husband, are your main priority. Don't get them out of your hair so you can move on to the real ministry-they ARE your real ministry! Love those women by loving your children!

~B. Mosser

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The Western World's Greatest Church

Below are some more inisightful words from Mrs. Mosser.  She is right.  We just cannot expect good to come out of sending our children to be trained by the world and its system every day.  This is no small issue.  We are talking about our children's future and the future of the Church.  Please, Christian parents, take heed.

Ah, the schools. America's greatest church. Indoctrination central. It's hands down the most dangerous place to send a child, yet that's where so many go.

There's rape, molestaion, shootings, stabbing, evolution, moralism, sex, drugs. All kinds of wickedness.
Train up a child in the way he should go: And when he is old, he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6

Satan knows this verse too, ladies! Many are the socialists and the atheists because many are the schools. Public, private, Christian.

So I just have one question. How long til that light is extinguished by the darkness that surrounds them? Most children are put in another's care at 6 weeks old. From that point on, mama's career and mama's sanity are all that matter, and the child gets shipped from one place to another. From day care, to school, after school programs, and homework. Very little time is spent at home with families.

Paul Washer said something I wholeheartedly agree with:
Your children will go to public school and be trained somewhere around 15,000 hours in ungodly secular thought. And then they'll go to Sunday school and they'll color a picture of Noah's ark. And you think that's going to stand against the lies they are being taught?

Growing up, I went to church 3 times a week. Sunday school, youth group, service, had home Bible studies every week. Dad read the Proverbs of the day to us in the morning while we ate breakfast. Prayed for all of us before leaving for work in the mornings. And we went to public school. Whose voice do you think I listened to? I was a very quiet and shy girl who adored my family, but I dressed like a whore. At 19 years old I was meeting guy friends at an empty park at 10 pm. Didn't do anything, but does that really matter? I sure wasn't listening to the voice of the Lord, that's for sure! I was considered a goody two-shoes, and I lived like the world. I listened to the voices of the public school. I was lost and on my way to hell. But thank You Jesus, He saved me! I have a lot of regrets that I wouldn't have had if I had Jesus given to me all day every day, rather than a quick spiel in the morning before hopping on the bus.

All that being said, sending your child into the darkness to be a light is sending your child to hell. Be aware.

Or you could say, sending your child into the darkness to be a light is equal to sending a baby lamb to the wolves. If he survives, it won't be without scars!

Jesus called full grown men to go into the world, and be His salt and light. Not children. Not women. Women are to be in the home raising her own children. If you want the light of Christ Jesus to go to the public school system then ask your husband to go into the lions den himself. Stop sending children to do a man's job.

~B. Mosser

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If Everyone Jumped, Would You?

Today, a quote shared, which has some important truths from God's Word:

If everyone jumped, would you?

Growing up, I would see other kids doing stuff I wanted to do. I'm a follower to the core! But my dad would always ask one thing: if everyone jumped off a cliff, would you?

The way women are today makes me ask myself the same thing. Most everyone I know says it's biblical for a woman to work outside the home. And they will stomp you down verbally if you say anything different! But, if everyone jumped, would you? In the Bible, I see time and again where it states, quite blatantly, I might add, that women are to be keepers at home. For example, Titus 2:5, keepers at home, lest the Word of God be blasphemed. 1 Timothy 5, young widows are to marry, bear children, guide the house. Nowhere do I see that women are to hold office in any capacity outside the home. This includes Proverbs 31, where she planted a garden and sold the extras at market. I also see in Proverbs 7:11 where the strange woman is loud and stubborn and her feet abide not in her house. I have no desire to be that strange woman, nor a woman who blasphemes the Word of God, do you?

What about birth control? Christians will be the first to tell you that you are being irresponsible if you do not space your children out to their own wacked out idea of correctly. But I do not see this in the Bible. If everyone jumped, would you? Almost everyone, in the church and out, uses some form of birth control or another. But I see in Psalm 127 that children are arrows, and blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. I see in Psalm 139 that children are fearfully and wonderfully made before He formed them in the womb! I see in 1 Corinthians where the wisdom of man is as foolishness to God, and the foolishness of God is wiser than man. I see where the Bible says be fruitful and multiply. No where do I see where He has taken that back. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Most people I meet, in church and out, send their children to the public schools. Some will even say you are failing your children by homeschooling, for how will they learn to socialize and stand in line and be out in the 'real world'? I do not see this mindset in the Bible. I see in Deuteronomy 6 where we are to teach our children the Bible from sun up to sun down, sitting to eat, and rising to play. We are to teach them all day long. I see where it says in Psalm 1 to not keep company with blasphemers and mockers. The schools are full of them. We are to keep them with us where we can properly teach and protect them. Why would we send them to Rome as lights and expect them to actually remain lights? If everyone jumped, would you?

The world is lukewarm. God has called us to be either hot or cold, for, according to Revelations 3:16, He will spew thee out of His mouth. Where do you fall?

~Mrs. B. Mosser


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Wise Words as Children Return to Their Studies

We school year round, taking breaks when it suits our family.  Our family enjoys the sense of order and direction this gives us, as well as keeping the children from forgetting too much while taking a long summer break.  We also can take vacations or time off whenever we feel like it--one of the beauties of homeschooling!

As some children are about to start back up into a new school year, we have some very wise words to glean from.  Please join me at Raising Homemakers for the rest of today's post.

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God's Solemn Charge to Parents

God has entrusted to parents a most solemn charge, and yet a most precious privilege. It is not too much to say that in their hands are deposited the hope and blessing, or else the curse and plague, of the next generation. Their families are the nurseries of both Church and State, and according to the cultivating of them now will be their fruitfulness hereafter. Oh, how prayerfully and carefully should you who are parents discharge your trust. Most assuredly God will require an account of the children from your hands, for they are His, and only lent to your care and keeping. The task assigned you is no easy one, especially in these superlatively evil days. Nevertheless, if trustfully and earnestly sought, the grace of God will be found sufficient in this responsibility as in others. The Scriptures supply us with rules to go by, with promises to lay hold of, and, we may add, with fearful warnings lest we treat the matter lightly. 

~ Arthur Pink

Have you thought about where and how your children will be educated?

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Simple Thoughts on the Cost of Healthy Eating

I think paying more for healthy food is worth it. You often end up paying less for doctor visits if you are eating healthy food.

'It's always funny to me when people GASP at the thought of paying $7/gallon for RAW milk. I have gladly payed upwards of $12/gallon for fresh, grass-fed raw milk.

One woman said, "That's way too expensive.  Who has that kind of money? That's why we don't eat organic, raw, and all that gluten-free non-sense." Granted she told me this with a 12-oz can of Coca Cola sitting in front of her.

I asked her, "How much was that can of Coke?" She said, "About a dollar."  "And you think that is a good price?" She responded, "Well, yes, it's ONLY $1."

I said, "Consider this: there are 128 ounces in a gallon, and that coke is 12 ounces, so at ONE DOLLAR a can, that comes out to about $11/gallon, 4 dollars MORE than my 128 ounces gallon of raw milk!"

She was speechless of course and said, "Thank you for the perspective."

This little perspective can be duplicated with candy bars, chips, and other refined foods.

Think critically about the reasons you give yourself about why you do what you do; a critical thought or two may surprise you!'

~from The Cafe Wellness

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