REMINDER: We will be starting The Respect Dare July 1st here at peacefulwife! Get yourself a copy of the book and we will walk through it together prayerfully. I am so excited to be on this adventure with you! BEING A LEADER IS A CHALLENGE Being the God-given leader in a marriage is very difficult… Continue reading Supporting My Husband’s Leadership
Category: Biblical Submission/Leadership
Ways Husbands Lead that Wives Often Don’t Notice – From the Archives
This is a continuation of the post two days ago about how wives tend to have VERY specific and high expectations of exactly what it means to be a spiritual leader – and how many of the things we expect aren’t even biblical. Not only that – but our expectations can lead to grave sin… Continue reading Ways Husbands Lead that Wives Often Don’t Notice – From the Archives
Love, Honor, Respect, and Submission Are Gifts
The passages about marriage in Ephesians 5, Colossians 3, I Corinthians 11:3, I Peter 3 and Titus 2 all give God’s commands for husbands and wives in marriage. Before we dive in, let’s begin with the understanding that God made men and women with equal value – both are “image bearers of God” in Genesis… Continue reading Love, Honor, Respect, and Submission Are Gifts
A Husband Answers – “Why Won’t My Husband Lead?”
Today’s post is a guest post by a Christian husband – answering a wife’s question. This wife has been working on respect and biblical submission for about 6 months, and doesn’t understand why sometimes her husband tells her that he doesn’t want to lead in their marriage. (PS – just so everyone is aware –… Continue reading A Husband Answers – “Why Won’t My Husband Lead?”
Joyful Submission and a Boat
This is an email from a wife I first “met” online last July. God has been doing a HUGE work in her heart! I know you will be richly blessed by reading her story. I haven’t shared something yet that has been stirring in our house…..its been another example of me laying down my “rights”… Continue reading Joyful Submission and a Boat
How God Used an Old Truck and a Wife’s Great Faith
This is a reader’s response to my post about the opportunity I had to sell my minivan. (You can find part 1 here, and part 2 here from that series) I LOVE her story! This is a beautiful real life example of how obeying God’s Word, showing respect for our husbands, honoring their leadership… Continue reading How God Used an Old Truck and a Wife’s Great Faith
A Minivan Update!
This is a follow up to my first post about the possibility of selling my 2006 minivan and how I trusted God and my husband with the outcome. I had wanted to possibly sell my minivan because we don’t really need so much space now that we aren’t lugging strollers, pac-n-plays and high chairs around.… Continue reading A Minivan Update!
Empowering My Husband’s Spiritual Leadership about Church Stuff
How can I encourage my husband’s spiritual leadership for our family about going to church?
A Real Life Example of Respect and Submission
The pictures are actually from our trip to Myrtle Beach 2011 when this story happened! Ladies, Here is a real life, super practical example of a situation one summer. We were leaving that morning for the beach to have a few days of vacation – my husband, our two children and myself. That morning our… Continue reading A Real Life Example of Respect and Submission
A New Leader is Born
CHANGING THE DOMINANT WIFE/PASSIVE HUSBAND DYNAMIC When a wife has been trying to control the marriage and making most of the decisions and the husband has been unplugged for many months, years or decades – it takes TIME and practice for her to step down and learn to be a great follower and it takes… Continue reading A New Leader is Born