Mississippi Mom Blog

April 18, 2018

Holy Hospitality: Opening Your Home & Heart to Others

How to Practice Biblical Hospitality | How can hospitality change lives? | Opening your heart and home to others through hospitality

Do you struggle to practice hospitality? I know I do sometimes. 1 Peter 4:9 tells us to "offer hospitality to one another without grumbling." But how can we do it? Read on to find out! "Wakati wa chai (Time for tea)," I would say as I walked through the door of our organization's regional office. Holding roasted maize or pastries and looking forward to fellowship, I often arranged my schedule around chai. The three young ladies who worked in the regional office and I would sit on the grass under the warm, Kenyan sun and talk about faith, hopes, dreams and everything in between. The first week I ...

April 11, 2018

All Dressed Up: 7 Things a Christian Woman Should Always Wear

7 Things a Christian Woman Should Always Wear & I'm not talking about clothes! Paul says to clothe ourselves with 7 accessories that are essential to the Christian life. Find out what they are!

What should a Christian woman wear? Colossians 3 makes it pretty clear, and just so you know: the writer wasn't talking about clothes. Read on to find out what a Christian woman can wear that will always be in style. Sunday morning often gets the best of me. My husband walks in the bedroom and looks at me like I'm crazy. I can't really blame him. He often finds me standing stock still, staring at a closet full of clothes, saying, "I don't have anything to wear." Some mornings, the room looks like my closet erupted, spewing clothes all over the room and shoes all over the floor. And there I am in the middle of ...

April 6, 2018

3 Tips to Help You Teach Kids the Old Testament

Do you struggle to teach kids the Old Testament? It's much more than just a bunch of stories, but how can we help kids apply it to their lives? Read on to find 3 tips to help you teach kids the Old Testament and a great resource you can use! My husband and I lead the children't worship service at our church each week. Our whole family participates, and we love helping kids understand the truth of the Bible and how it applies to their lives. We want them to know that the Bible is more than just a bunch of stories. It's the key to understanding what God is doing in the world, in THEIR world. This ...

April 4, 2018

Does God really speak to people?

Do you believe that God speaks to and through his people? I do, and I'd love to tell you why. Recently, I wrote a post about 5 Christian Blogs that Will Encourage Your Heart and Strengthen Your Faith. In it, I made the statement, "God doesn't just speak to his people. He speaks through his people." Those words were tweeted a few times, and someone on Twitter asked me to demonstrate the fact that God does, in fact, speak to people. Now, to be honest, I didn't notice the tweet until some time after it had passed through the feed and off into obscurity. (I will still NEVER be a better blogger.) For that reason, I never responded to the ...

April 1, 2018

How to Bake Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Muffins

Easy and delicious GLUTEN FREE chocolate chip muffins recipe | Gluten Free Recipes | Quick and Easy Breakfast Ideas

Gluten free chocolate chip muffins are the perfect treat for busy mornings or afternoon snacks. They're simple and delicious and easy to make, too! Earlier this year, my family and I did a Whole30, which is 30-days without grains, dairy, legumes, sugar, and other things. One of the reasons, we decided to give it a try was the mysterious itching and eczema that plague a couple of our children. We weren't too strict on it with the kids, allowing them to eat things they were offered at church or at the homes of friends. It didn't take long to realize that gluten was the mostly likely cause of the itching and skin ...