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Ask Pastor John

Bible Time for Busy Moms

Ask Pastor John

Desiring God

Christianity, Pastor, John Piper, Theology, Ask, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Desiring God, 163859, Religion & Spirituality, Questions

4.94.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2014

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

When can busy moms find time to read their Bibles amid endless daily demands? Pastor John gives husbands six exhortations to help their wives.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Pastor John, here's a common question we hear on Bible reading and it comes from a mom

0:08.2

who asks, Pastor John, I'm a busy mom with three kids at home.

0:12.2

How am I supposed to find time to read the Bible alone?

0:15.8

What would you say, Pastor John?

0:17.7

Here's the way I want to approach this.

0:20.7

If you're a wife in this situation, not a single mom, that's another challenge.

0:26.7

I'll mention that in a minute maybe, but what a wife who has a husband living with her

0:31.6

home.

0:33.1

Would you turn this podcast off and go get your husband because I'm going to ask him

0:40.4

to take responsibility for this question.

0:42.8

You do have some responsibility, yes, yes, you do.

0:45.5

And maybe I'll say a word about that in just a minute.

0:47.8

But God's idea for marriage and parenting is two parents, that's his ideal.

0:54.0

And one of the reasons for this is so that one can cover for the other and make sure

1:02.9

that both are connecting with God through Jesus in the Word every day.

1:09.8

Okay, good.

1:10.8

So, is he there?

1:12.8

What?

1:13.8

Is he there?

1:14.8

I'm talking to the husband.

1:15.8

Hello, husband.

1:16.8

Your wife wants to know how she's supposed to find time to read the Bible alone when

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