Gospel Minded Mama

​ There is a beautiful, distinct rhythm to summer, especially when you live near the water. The beach and the pool should be places of pure refreshment, laughter, and family memories. But lately, walking onto a family beach feels less like a sanctuary and more like an exposure to things that were never meant for public view. Just recently, while sitting at a beach filled with young, innocent children, I watched women walking around in thong bikinis, completely exposing their bodies right in front of little eyes. It broke my heart, not just for the children whose innocence is being chipped away, but for the women themselves. We have to ask ourselves: How did we get here so fast? From Strippers to Mainstream: The Rapid Shift Historically, women would never have dreamed of displaying so much of their bodies in public. For centuries, dignity and covering went hand in hand. But the cultural slide into immodesty happened with breathtaking speed. Consider a striking piece of history: when the...

We live in a culture that teaches women to be self-sufficient, fiercely independent, and always ready to take control. From a very young age, we are trained to believe that if something needs to be done right, we have to do it ourselves. Sadly, many of us carry this exact momentum into our marriages. When a husband is quiet, deliberating, or perhaps struggling to find his footing in leadership, our default response is often to step in and handle it. We take on a masculine posture of control, steering the family, making the executive calls, and managing the spiritual atmosphere of the home. But when we take on the leadership over our husbands, we inadvertently freeze them out of the very role God created them to fill. True biblical order requires us to do something that cuts entirely against our modern conditioning: we have to lay down the reins and allow our husbands to step into their God-given authority. Sacrificial, Not "Servant" Leadership In the modern church, we hear a ...

When a local church loses its grip on biblical order, the fallout doesn't happen overnight. It happens through a slow, quiet drift. In our culture today, we are constantly being fed a feminist mindset that tells us authority and leadership should be entirely fluid. Sadly, many churches have accepted these lies as truth, believing that the Bible’s instructions on church order were just for an ancient culture rather than timeless truth for all ages. It is no wonder we are in so much error as a culture. When a church follows the culture instead of the Word, a specific kind of disorder sets in. It usually looks like a two-way street: passive men and over-spiritualized women operating out of order.    The Spectrum of Unauthorized Leadership There is a spectrum and nuance to these conversations, but the reality is right in front of us. In some circles, women openly call themselves "pastors" and operate as such. In other, more conservative circles, the drift is subtler. We might...