Category Archives: True Woman Makeover Challenge

A Lasting Kindness, Part 2

God’s Beautiful Design for Women: Living Out Titus 2:1-5 – part 8

Nancy Leigh DeMoss: As I thought about this quality of goodness and kindness and then what we’ve talked about in the last several sessions about domesticity, being domestically inclined, serving out of our home base, there’s a woman in the Scripture who came to mind who illustrates beautifully both domesticity and this quality of kindness or goodness. You read about her in Acts chapter 9. Continue reading →

A Lasting Kindness

When a friend from church is in the hospital or has a new baby, what do you do? Many women spring into action, buying gifts, making meals, and showing great kindness in practical ways. But when someone closer to home has a need, do you spring into action with the same enthusiasm? Learn to take kindness home.

• How will you be remembered? What I want people to remember about me is that I cared, that I was kind, that I loved, that I touched their lives in practical ways that made a difference.
• Sometimes our own families are the ones we show the least kindness to. Sometimes it’s because we’ve been hurt, sometimes it’s because we’re lazy, sometimes we just take them for granted. We need to think about kindness in our own homes.
• It’s not your responsibility to fix all the problems of the needy in the world. But God has called you to be sensitive to the needs of those that He’s put into your sphere of influence and to open your eyes and be available to minister to their practical needs.

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The Beauty of Holiness, Part 2

God’s Beautiful Design for Women: Living Out Titus 2:1-5 – part 6

Now, you know that there are two aspects of purity in our lives as Christians. First of all, there’s that positional purity. That’s what took place in our lives at the moment that we were born again. We were regenerated. We were declared righteous and pure positionally by the substitutionary sacrifice of Christ—justification.

That’s our initial salvation. God sees us not as we were but now as being in Christ. We have been saved, and that positional purity is true of every believer. Continue reading →

The Beauty of Holiness, Part 1

God’s Beautiful Design for Women: Living Out Titus 2:1-5 – part 5

Sometimes pressures come at you so fast it seems like you can’t think straight. Learn to develop a biblical, sound mind so that you can think clearly no matter what is happening around you.*

• You never get to the point where you don’t need the grace of God to protect and safeguard your heart and keep you from sin.
• The real test of your purity is who you are when you get home and how you treat those around you.
• The goal of being pure of heart is not to make us look good. That’s self-righteousness. The goal is to make God look good.

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Sound Thinking, Part 2

God’s Beautiful Design for Women: Living Out Titus 2:1-5 – part 4

Nancy Leigh DeMoss: Now, by contrast—and I’m going to move through this quickly. But a woman who is sophron has a sound mind, exhibits the following kinds of characteristics, just the opposite of what we’ve been talking about over these last moments. Her heart and her mind, if she’s sophron are grounded in the Word and the ways of God.

The Word and the ways of God form boundaries for her life. Whereas, the woman who is not sophron, her life is like a river in flood stage. No boundaries, out of control—she can do a lot of damage to a lot of people, right? Continue reading →