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This is a philosophical and theological collection of articles written by Southern Baptists dealing with current Critical Theory and other disturbing trends in America.

I found the most value in Voddie Baucham's two article. I feel like I'm starting to grasp Cultural Marxism finally. I see it's effects all over the place, but didn't understand the roots. I think I better understand them now.

The Appendix article was the longest, deepest, and hardest article for me to read. If I'd not spent hours and hours discussing philosophy with my husband it would have been completely over my head. I would like to read this last article again as it philosophical and theological tore down the idol of Crutical Theory, showed its dangers and end, and made suggestions on how Christians can best combat it: by returning to a rich, deep Reformed, orthodox theology and philosophy.

A good read, challenging, and helpful.

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My second book about the Indianapolis was a great follow up to the first one by Lynn Vincent. This book was shorter, less detailed, and easily readable in about 5 or 6 hours. This actually might be the better book to read first, as it provides a quicker synopsis of the overall event.

Either way, the harrowing experiences of these men should never be forgotten.

On a personal note, my timing on reading this was providential. I'm facing a hard and long week that I'm already feeling overwhelmed by, and struggling to not just spark a totaly system failure in my body. This book provided me with some much needed perspective and thankfulness. It reminded me that even when life is hard there is much that is good and much that the Lord is protecting me from. One of the things I often glean from reading military history is that I have much to be thankful for. I have food, shelter, clothing, and relative safety. My husband, father, brothers, nephews, uncles, and cousins are relatively safe and I know where they are. This book helped me take a deep breath and center myself on God's sustaining goodness at the start of a week I don't want to face.

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Winter can be harsh and hard, as many of us Texans learned early in 2021. But part of being a Proverbs 31 woman is being prepared, cheerfully prepared. Take the long dark cold of winter and make her your handmaid for planning, nesting, tending, and loving your family.

Here's my thoughts on Winter and Winter Hygge: Read full article.

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I watch war movies.

When I am sad

I watch war movies to cry.

Overwhelmed?

I watch war movies to gain perspective.

Afraid?

To find my courage.

Longing for love?

To remember friendship.

Lonely?

To see brotherhood.

Lost?

To find my home.

When life weighs so much, when I'm sad, overwhelmed, afraid, longing for a true and real love, lonely, and lost, I watch war movies to cry, to gain perspective and courage, to be reminded of friendship and brotherhood, to find home.

I watch war moves to hold onto faith not sight.

I watch war movies.

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1 Timothy: Gossip and Busybodies — HearthKeeper

Being a gossip and a busybody is easier now than ever. We don’t have to leave home to be a busybody or engage in gossip. It’s at our fingert

My second article thinking through what Paul says in Timothy about our work and responsibilities as women, along with our main temptations.

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Letters to a Young Matron, Part 1 — HearthKeeper

This will be the earthly war in your heart as long as you are married. You are stepping into a shield wall without any reprieve. No replacem

Let's just be honest here, you probably won't like this article or get anything out of it if you're not a Christian. This is all about our fight against sin and how we are called to relate to our husbands. You've been warned, so don't come crying to me if you don't agree. 😄

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When the road becomes unbearable, we homemakers continue to create beauty and comfort as an act of rebellion. I’m not kidding. We roll up our sleeves and tend our homes. Do you know what our enemies hate? Wise women loving and tending our hearths. This, this work we do of cooking, cleaning, loving, raising, beautifying, serving, and so much more,  is an act of defiance and rebellion against the world, her lies, and her darkness. It requires great courage to provide comfort during chaos. It takes great courage to stay at the work when the world is crumbling. We feel just a bit now, the sting that comes with homemaking because the world doesn’t love us. The world says that being a homemaker is a failure. They say that tending your hearth is just an excuse for laziness. They don’t want us here. They don’t want us loving our husbands, raising our children, growing our plants, cooking our food, nesting, creating and holding memories. Why? Because those things produce strong families and strong second generations. Those things bind us together on a deep level and people bound together by food, drink, and shared stories are hard to separate. This is why serving your church is such a mighty thing. Feminists complain that women in the church are relegated to kitchen and nursery duty. Where do you think binding happens? The next generation of faithful laymen and women, deacons and deacons’ wives, pastors and pastors’ wives are raised in our homes. The feeding of people is one of the most gracious and gathering gifts we can enact. Subtle, small, insignificant things like cooking, cleaning, washing, and serving add up to a group of people united together. That’s not insignificant. 

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I know that this is stretching the homemaker focus a bit, but it is important to remember that each of us in each of our homes is an individual, with our own personal tastes and interests. That is part of what makes home home. Home is where the wife is. Not a cardboard cutout of a women, but a true, living, breathing, human being with a soul. It's important that we embrace this. It keeps us from creating unfair comparisons between our homes, husbands, and families.

What is something unique about you that sets the aesthetic of your life and your home? Music? Art? The stories you tell? How does that thing you were created to love flavor your homemaking, tangibly or intangibly?

For me, it's war movies. This is my exploration of why war movies are so important to me as a Christian and as a wife.

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