Category: Disciplines of a Godly Woman

  • The Discipline of Witness

    This particular chapter in Disciplines of a Godly Woman, written by Barbara Hughes, is all about sharing Christ with others. Cultivating this discipline may be one of the more difficult ones (if evangelism isn’t one of your gifts) because it requires a woman to step out of her comfort zone. It means I, a woman…

  • The Discipline of Good Deeds

    I had really hoped to finish blogging through this book before the end of 2006, but I found other things about which to write. So, here I am in 2007 still working through Disciplines of a Godly Woman by Barbara Hughes. There are three more chapters after this one. I think this delay in finishing…

  • Child Training Do-Over

    Remember when you were a kid and you were playing a game with your little brother and all of a sudden you realized you didn’t play the game exactly right? I do. I always cried, “DO-OVER!” Or, “I messed up. Can I go again?” We’d start a game and start it over, over and over…

  • The Discipline of Nurturing

    At one of the churches we recently visited, the pastor was working his way through the book of 1 Timothy on Sunday nights. One night we attended, he was expositing 1 Timothy 2:11-15. “Let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness. I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a…

  • The Discipline of Marriage

    Well, I have put off writing something on this chapter of Hughes’ book for long enough. I wrote a rather lengthy post on Chapter 10, “The Discipline of the Church” about two weeks ago. Chapter 11 is titled, “The Discipline of Singleness.” Being that my time of singleness consisted of about 4 months in college,…