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Finding Joy in Your Home

Learning how to be BRAVE women (Family & Culture Pt 2) – Episode 28

Finding Joy in Your Home

Jami Balmet

Religion & Spirituality, Homemaking, Living, Kids & Family, Christian, Mother, Healthy, Christianity, Joy, Homemaker, Wife

4.9654 Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to the second part in our new series: The Family & Culture: How to bring glory to God within our households in a hostile culture. Last week, we took a deep dive into the joys & duties of a Christian household and it was a good introduction to this topic. We've got some terrific topics coming up in this series. But today we are tackling a really important lesson for all of us today: We need to be brave in faith before the Lord. We need  to lead and love our families with Bravery. We need to teach and train our kids to be brave. And it starts with us. Listen in today: Listen to the Podcast: You can find all the links and notes for this episode below! Right click here and save-as to download this episode to your computer. We need to learn how to be brave. We need to be brave women. We need to be brave mothers. We need to help inspire our men to be brave. And we need to instill bravery in our children as they grow. We need to be brave, in order to follow God's leading. Especially in an increasingly hostile culture. If we don't cultivate bravery, we may very well bow the knee to false gods and idols. Learning how to be brave in a hostile culture Something that the past 2 years has brought to a lot of our attention is how hostile our culture is against Christians. We've become so use to comfort and ease, that with the world getting a little shaking, we don't know how to respond. We need to become braver. We need to become brave Christians. And THIS is going to heavily affect how we respond now and especially into the future. We've seen this shift in the western world over the past 20 years. Those perhaps in the UK or Australia have been feeling this shift for a decade. And those of us here in the US are finally feeling it now as well. "This world is not my home, I'm just a-passing through. My treasures are laid up Somewhere beyond the blue. "In reality, for us in the English-speaking West this world has tended to feel very much like home and our treasures have been right before our eyes. But now we are finally facing the fact that this broken, sinful world in which we live is not actually our home - that what the Bible says concerning believers in this world is really true: That we really are aliens and that we really are strangers. The fact of the matter is that it has been true that we are strangers in and to this world. It has just been clouded, obscured by the size and influence and legal protection of the church in most of the Western world. But this world is not actually our home. We're not supposed to be treating this life the way other people treat it, as if this is the be-all and end-all of everything, or as if as Christians we can have a comfortable, respectable, prosperous life here and look forward to even more of those things in eternity. "Secularism pushes back again and again against what the Bible says about sexual ethics, about salvation, about education, about the role and reach of the state, or about matters of public welfare. Public opinion has turned against Christians." - Brave by Faith We've become so comfortable in our world, that we are not ready or willing to make sacrifices. I can't even begin to count how many times those around me (and myself) have uttered the past 2 years "I just can't wait until things get back to normal." But what if God is teaching us some profound truths through all of this. What if he is exposing the true Church, cutting the wheat from the chaff and teaching all of us in the Western world how to stand firm in the Lord once again. But God is Sovereign.  He is in control. He is foreseeing all that is happening and He is working it all out to His Glory (and for our good to those of us in His Church). We freak out at the slightest inconvenience. We fear for the future and what kind of society our kids will inherit. I'm not saying it's wrong to speculate about what's coming and it's certainly not wrong to be proactive in protecti...

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Finding Joy in Your Home Podcast. I am your host, Jamie Valmay, and this is the podcast where we blend deeply theological topics with thoroughly practical application, all for God's glory.

0:12.8

Hey ladies, welcome back. We are doing our family and culture mini series. This is part two. I am really excited for this episode. It took me a really long

0:24.5

time to write. I was writing and writing and researching and writing. And Jason's sitting on the

0:28.5

couch watching me and he's like, were you like writing a book over there? What are you working on?

0:32.5

I was like my podcast. And he's like, you don't normally write this much for a podcast episode.

0:37.6

Just because I felt like there was so much to cover and to get into on the topic of being brave.

0:42.7

This is a good one.

0:43.9

This is going to be an encouraging episode, I hope.

0:45.9

So we're going to jump into that.

0:47.7

We're going to hear from our sponsor for today's episode, Skylight Calendar, which is actually really cool in a very good time of year to learn about

0:54.6

something like this. So we'll talk about that in a little while. But this is the second part

0:59.7

in our new series. So our series that we're kicking off last week and today is called the

1:04.5

family and culture, how to bring glory to God within our households in a hostile culture.

1:09.0

Last week, we took a deep dive into the joys and duties

1:12.1

of a Christian household. And I think it was a really good introduction to the topic. I got some

1:16.5

really good feedback on that episode. So thank you for that. And then we have some really terrific

1:20.9

topics coming up later in this series. I think every time I should pull up my calendar.

1:27.0

Jamie, pull up my calendar before I

1:29.0

sit down to record. I believe next week we're going to do the third part in this series and then

1:33.8

we're going to have a couple one-off episodes. I've got my Christian reading challenge coming up on

1:38.7

December 14th. I've got my word of the year. I've got a year and ministry update with Jason that he's going to

1:45.6

record with me. So we've got some kind of one-off episodes that just have to happen every

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