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{Personal Journey} Never Trust Your Tongue When Your Heart Is Bitter

{Personal Journey} Witnessing Begins with Relationship

{Semi} Wordless Wednesday — Not Everyone Has to Like You

{Semi} Wordless Wednesday || Everyone Thinks of Changing the World

The Journey of Change

{Semi-Wordless Wednesday} Live at Peace with Everyone

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One of the greatest losses of the modern age isn’t

One of the greatest losses of the modern age isn’t that we’ve forgotten how to grow food.

It’s that we’ve forgotten how to pass wisdom from one generation to the next.

For thousands of years, children learned by watching. They stood beside their fathers in the field and their mothers in the kitchen. They listened to stories around the table instead of scrolling through strangers’ opinions. They inherited not just possessions, but perspective. They gleaned wisdom, because you cannot buy wisdom.

Today, we outsource almost everything.

We outsource our food, health, and education.
We outsource our elderly.
We outsource discipleship.
We even outsource our sense of purpose.

Then we wonder why so many people feel disconnected from the land, from one another, and from God’s design for community.

The answer isn’t merely to move to the country or buy a few chickens. It’s to become the kind of person worth learning from.

Live in such a way that your grandchildren will know how to pray because they heard you pray. They’ll know how to steward because they watched you steward. They’ll know how to preserve food, mend a fence, comfort a neighbor, and open their Bible because those things were ordinary in your home.

The most valuable inheritance you can leave isn’t acreage or a savings account.

It’s a life that quietly proved faithfulness is still possible in a world that rewards convenience.

Some of the holiest work you’ll ever do will never

Some of the holiest work you’ll ever do will never trend online.
It won’t be standing on a stage. It won’t be gaining followers. It won’t be building a platform or hearing applause.

It might look like pulling weeds before the sun comes up while your children still sleep. It might look like teaching someone to bake bread, praying over a sick neighbor, fixing a broken fence, or carrying another burden that no one else even notices.

The Kingdom of God has always advanced through ordinary acts of faithful obedience.

Noah built. Ruth gleaned. David tended sheep. The disciples mended nets.
 Jesus spent most of His earthly life working with His hands before beginning His public ministry.

We’ve been taught to chase visibility when Scripture continually points us toward faithfulness.

The world measures influence by how many people know your name. Heaven measures it by whether the Father knows your heart.

So plant the garden. Raise the children. Visit the widow. Read the Word. Milk the cow. Teach the skill. Share the meal. Open your table.
Keep doing the quiet work.

Because one day you’ll realize those hidden moments weren’t interruptions to your purpose—they were your purpose all along.

The greatest harvests are almost always growing underground long before anyone sees green above the soil.

(PS—hard to believe this little girl will be FOUR next month 😍 She was just a few days fresh in this photos)

🌼 FEVERFEW (Tanacetum parthenium) I keep finding

🌼 FEVERFEW (Tanacetum parthenium)

I keep finding these little volunteer feverfew plants all over my garden, and I love it.

For centuries, feverfew has earned a place in apothecaries and cottage gardens alike. With its cheerful daisy-like flowers and aromatic foliage, this member of the Asteraceae family has long been valued as a medicinal herb throughout Europe and beyond.

🌿 Botanical Name: Tanacetum parthenium
🌿 Common Names: Feverfew, featherfew, bachelor’s buttons (regional)
🌿 Family: Asteraceae (Daisy Family)
🌿 Parts Used: Primarily the leaves and flowering tops, used fresh or dried.

Historically, herbalists reached for feverfew to support the body in a variety of ways:

🧠 Headache & Migraine Support
Perhaps feverfew’s best-known traditional use is for recurring headaches and migraines. Researchers have identified compounds such as parthenolide, a sesquiterpene lactone that may influence inflammatory pathways and vascular function, making feverfew one of the most studied herbs for migraine prevention.

✨ Inflammatory Support
Traditional herbalists often used feverfew to help calm inflammation throughout the body. Modern studies suggest it may modulate inflammatory mediators, though more research is needed to fully understand its clinical applications.

🤒 Fever & Seasonal Illnesses
As its common name suggests, feverfew was historically brewed into teas or tinctures during febrile illnesses. Its long history explains how it received its memorable name.

💃 Women’s Herbal Tradition
Throughout history, feverfew has appeared in folk medicine traditions for menstrual discomfort and cycle support. Because of its potential effects on uterine activity, it is generally not recommended during pregnancy.

🦴 Joint & Musculoskeletal Comfort
Some herbal traditions have used feverfew for occasional joint discomfort and stiffness, particularly when associated with inflammatory conditions.

🍃 Digestive & General Wellness
Bitter compounds within the herb have historically been used to stimulate digestion and support overall gastrointestinal health

Add this one to your homestead herbalism list to grow in your garden!

I wrote this substack some time ago and then forgo

I wrote this substack some time ago and then forgot to finish the series. But it seemed really relevant to share once again. It's the last I'll share on this!

It's one of the most quoted phrases in Scripture—and one of the most misunderstood.
For generations, a single verse has been lifted out of context to build entire doctrines that limit, discourage, or even silence women whom God has clearly called to serve, teach, prophesy, disciple, and lead under His authority. But what if we've been reading Paul's words without reading the entire letter? What if we've missed the historical context, the original language, and the broader testimony of Scripture?
Throughout the Bible, God consistently uses women to accomplish Kingdom purposes. One of the issues is that the American version of church is not the New Testament version and structure.
Deborah judged Israel. Huldah prophesied to kings. Priscilla instructed Apollos. Phoebe served the early church. Anna proclaimed the coming Messiah. Philip's daughters prophesied. At Pentecost, Peter declared that the Spirit would be poured out on sons and daughters, fulfilling Joel's prophecy.
So how do we reconcile those examples with passages like 1 Timothy 2?
The answer isn't found in reading one verse in isolation—it's found in studying the WHOLE counsel of God.
In this article, I take a deep dive into the Greek language behind "authority", "dominion", and "silence," examine the context surrounding Paul's instructions to Timothy, and explore why many common assumptions about this passage deserve a second look. We also look back to Genesis, the design of marriage, mutual submission, and the biblical pattern of accountability within the body of Christ.
The goal isn't to promote cultural trends or modern ideologies.
The goal is to return to Scripture itself.
The Kingdom needs men who sacrificially lead and protect.
The Kingdom needs women who faithfully steward the gifts God has entrusted to them.
If you don't read the whole Book, it's easy to build an entire doctrine on a single sentence.
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I have always thought it was so interesting, and s

I have always thought it was so interesting, and so telling, when people believe that a woman in a leadership position in the church means she is against men and out of order.

But many of the same people are ok with a woman in leadership in earthly things, like business, and politics.

Here’s the reality, men and women were created completely different. We have different emotions, abilities, and giftings. The men I know that are extremely confident in their manhood and burly in nature will immediately tell you they need a woman to help keep them organized. And the women that are confident in their womanhood and feminity will immediately tell you that they need men to help keep them grounded, logical, and not emotionally driven.

The kingdom was created to be whole—not half.

So when people say things about women in ministry with a broad stroke, it hurts the body of Christ. Because there is neither male nor female, Jew nor Gentile.

There are certainly women who should not be in leadership. I have met many of them. They actually do disrespect men and always think men are out to get them. These are the women that we are warned about throughout scripture and the Early church writings. But that does not give the Church the right to broad stroke women as a whole.

That would be like me saying that men are conniving, aggressive, and mean just because I’ve experienced that from a few men in church. But that would be silly and incorrect, wouldn’t it?

The most healthy church bodies that I’ve been a part of have men as strong leaders with women as complimentary leaders, and never having rule over one another. Who has the final say? Jesus does. Because isn’t that what the church was created to do—seek God in all things? Together?

We must start from the beginning in America. Starting with what the actual early church looked like. When we begin to see that the ministry roles listed in scripture (apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor/shepherd, teacher) were never governing roles (like elders and deacons), we might simmer down a bit and realize this isn’t as hard as the church Pharisees have made it.

@thechurchstorehouse has free teachings on this �

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