Women
Submission to your husband
We come to the final quality that the older women are to teach the younger women: to be submissive to their own husbands. Certainly, submission is a “hot topic” of our day and age. Our modern culture scorns the idea of submission, and unfortunately, we find many churches that do little to encourage submission. So [...]
To be kind
We come to our sixth character trait of the younger women – kindness. At first thought, I would think that most of us would describe ourselves as kind people. However, is that how others would characterize us? Is that how our husbands and children think of us? And even more importantly, are we measuring up [...]
Workers at Home
Today, more than ever, women are spending a significant amount of time working outside the home. Due to our current culture’s feminist ideology, homemaking is seldom looked upon with much respect. Homemakers are often thought of as the ones who weren’t bright enough to get a job or ones without any sense of ambition. If [...]
Pure in an Impure World
Last week we considered exhibiting purity in character by dressing modestly. This week let’s contemplate purity in our thoughts and actions. What does purity mean? Purity is being morally blameless, above reproach, unmixed with sin, innocent, clean. We live in an impure world, and, therefore, we must take great care in what we choose to [...]
Purity in How We Dress
“And so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure…” Titus 2:4 This week in our series of the biblical qualities of the young women, we come to the little word, “pure”. Yes, it’s a small word, but we could certainly spend weeks unpacking its meaning. In fact, I [...]
The Virtue of Self-Control
Our modern society talks little of the value of self-control. Instead it’s the attitude of do what you want, when you want, for however long you want, with no thought of the consequences. However, we find in Titus 2:5 that the young women are exhorted to exhibit self-control. What is self-control? It’s living a life [...]
Love Your Children
My three little ones are all sleeping peacefully in their beds, the house is quiet, and I just finished reviewing a chapter in Feminine Appeal on loving my children. I find myself encouraged and reinvigorated for tomorrow to love my children with a tender, affectionate love. Yet I know the same challenges that faced me [...]
Love Your Husband
Last week I introduced a series I’ll be writing on for the next several weeks covering the seven qualities we find in Titus 2:3-5 of the younger woman. Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the [...]
Teaching and Learning
My desire for being a part of InFocus is to be an encouragement to other women, specifically, to younger women. Even with my birthday today, I still consider myself to be one of those younger women! I love when opportunities arise to glean wisdom from an older woman. There is so much to learn from [...]
To speak or not to speak
Our tongue can have a profound impact for good or for evil. God’s Word gives us clear instruction as to what our tongues should and should not be used for. In talking about the younger widows, Paul states that “they learn to be idlers, going about from house to house, and not only idlers, but [...]
Four years old!
This week marked a very special birthday for our little Emily, and I thought I’d take some time to recount God’s faithfulness and goodness to the Mock family these last four years. Looking at Emily today you would never know that she had such a rough start to her life. You see, Emily was born [...]
What Do I Know About My God?
When I was a teenager I attended a Christian camp and was challenged by Mrs. Mardi Collier to start reading in the Psalms and write down in a notebook all the verses I found that talked about God. This project has been a huge help to me throughout the years. In my notebook at the [...]
