Light Duties
We all want to be good mums and we want to like doing motherhood. The trouble is, it's hard to work out what's good and harder still to be happy about it. This podcast is a long meditation on what Jesus has to say about what's good when we're raising children. It so happens that joy sneaks up on us when we get on with doing it.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 16 minutes
- Episodes
- 97
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
Bible Reading in Our Family {Think Aloud Chat}
#41. Wrong Ideas About Mission Stifle Motherhood
Here are some problematic assumptions about the Great Commission which end up stifling motherhood (and stifling the mission too):
Wrong Idea 1: We’re all meant to be constantly expanding our range of…
#40. "Go" is Not the Only Verb in the Great Commission
Are home duties a rival to the Great Commission? Will building an overflowing home waste resources that could otherwise be spent telling the world about Jesus? This is the question that troubled me m…
Losing Our Maternal Bristles {bonus}
#39. Overflowing Home
Home is meant to be the central place from which we worship and train up worshipers. It is naturally the locus of our maternal responsibilities. It won’t be the only place where responsibility and in…
#38. Constant Embodied Worship
It’s not unusual to divide life into sacred and secular, bits God cares about and the bits he doesn’t. Because gathered worship and the Bible and prayer and evangelism matter enormously, we think tha…
#37. Why Motherhood is Boring
We live in a time where home is seen as either a day spa you retreat to, or the site of heavy-duty, mind-numbing labour we’re desperate to escape. For the mothers of young children, we long for the f…
#36. The Less Than Ideal Church
What do we do if we're tying to help our children grow into worship, but our church situation isn't ideal? Well, none are ideal. This episode is about what you can do.
Reclaiming Time Without Urgency
Much of the trouble with motherhood comes down to time. Either we don’t have enough, we’re trying to live three lifetimes at once; or we are adrift… bored…with too many vacant hours. We struggle with…
No Heavy Lifting {Christmas Bonus}
Perhaps Christmas would be more enjoyable if we didn’t feel we had to do so much? What a relief when we pause to consider that the only duties God calls us to at Christmas are those which hold true a…
#35. How Kids Grow to be in Church
A while ago, I mentioned the example of a church where it’s normal for the kids to be present in corporate worship. We were part of that church when our first baby arrived and I was terrified that my…
#34. Unseen Worship
One reason we might keep children separate from what the adults do at church, is that we forget the grandeur of what’s going on. Most of what we see is pretty ordinary. The reality is actually far fr…
#33. Is Worship the right Word for Sunday?
I’m repenting of my neglect of the word, and with it the reality of, worship. Motherhood is ultimately about being a worshipper and raising worshippers, so it’s worth using the word, especially on Su…
A Word Between Articles
Some words on worship while you wait for the next articles to be released.
#32. Church Full of Kids, but No Kids' Church
As we consider how to help our children have a meaningful relationship with the local church, it's helpful to hear stories of places that have done it well. This episode is about a church that has ha…
#31. When the Church Loves Children
Part of our role as Christian mums is to help our children into everyday love for Jesus’ people. It is much easier for our children to learn to love the church when the church loves them. When a chur…
#30. Better than a Playdate
The question of “how do we be a family in a local church?” is bigger than finding a church with a kids program. We’re to help our children learn to love all God’s people, not just their peers. Meanin…
#29. Something for the Kids
When a young family is looking for a new church, a typical requirement is that it has “something for the kids”. If they don’t see a children’s program advertised on the church’s website, they might n…
Churches Need Revived Families {bonus}
It turns out the Seventeenth Century Westminister divines weren't just writing to pastors and theologians. Right at the beginning of their documents, they address fathers and mothers. In the great cr…
#28. Too Simple for Experts
Most of us do not feel qualified to help our children come to know Jesus. We’re used to deferring to experts in other things, so we seek out the experts in this too. Sometimes we respect God’s word s…