Here's Nancy DeMas Walgamuth. Home is not an add-on to our spiritual life. Home, family, home is part and parcel of our discipleship and our calling as children of God.

And you and I can know the Bible backward and forward. We can have all our pretty little colored markers to mark up our Bibles. But if we're not practicing self-control at home, then something is wrong with our picture.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, author of Adorned, for Wednesday, March 22nd, 2017.

Through the last several weeks, we've been exploring Titus 2, 1 through 5.

That exploration has led us to a lot of practical topics. Today, we get the phrase

in Titus that says women should be workers at home. Here's Nancy to help us understand that phrase.

Well, this has been so helpful to me, and I hope it is to you to take each of these words,

each of these phrases in Titus

2, verses 3 through 5 in particular, and like a gem, a jewel, to turn it every direction

and see the many different facets of it.

And there's a lifetime of wisdom and learning and growth packed for us into these verses.

So we're unpacking it. We're taking our time. We're not

hurrying. We've been in this series for, I don't know, five or six weeks now and more to come.

But let me read again the verses we're looking at. And then we're going to pick up today

and over the next few days with another phrase in this passage. And remember, this is a radically counter-cultural

vision that Paul is painting for the believers there on the island of Crete, where Titus is the pastor.

And he's saying, you're not supposed to look like the world does. If you want to survive and thrive

as a church, the people of God in this pagan culture, here's what that

looks like. The gospel has to affect the way that you live and you live this out together.

And so he says in verse three of Titus two, older women are to teach what is good.

And so train the young women. And what are they supposed to train the young women?

To love their husbands, love their children, to be self-controlled, pure. We've talked about all

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