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Rachel Jankovic

is a wife and mother of seven children. She is author of You Who: Why You Matter and How to Deal With It and Loving the Little Years. She is heavily involved with the Christ Church Ladies Bible Reading Challenge and invites you all to join in that great movement of Christian women becoming women of the word.

Let God Decide What Mothering Is Worth

Let God Decide What Mothering Is Worth

The world and the flesh will make motherhood seem below most women. God reminds us, however, that none of us is worthy of this eternity-shaping work.

The Harvest of Homemaking

The Harvest of Homemaking

If a mother wants to work at home with cheerfulness and grace, then she needs to see the home not through the world’s eyes, nor through the devil’s, but through God’s.

Every Woman Needs the Whole Bible

Every Woman Needs the Whole Bible

The Bible will not really help you unless you let it wound you. We need more women ready to open all of themselves to the power of God’s word.

The Second Eve: How Christian Women Undo the Curse

The Second Eve

How Christian Women Undo the Curse

Women cannot go back to the garden and become undeceived. But we can stop listening to the serpent today.

Lies That Keep Women from the Word: Busyness Is Not the Problem

Lies That Keep Women from the Word

Busyness Is Not the Problem

Reading the Bible is not a luxury for those who have the time. Reading the Bible is as basic as sleeping, eating, and getting dressed for the day.

Make Me a Woman of Your Word

Make Me a Woman of Your Word

We want to become women of the word, not women who dabble in God’s word occasionally.

My Quiet Times Are Anything but Quiet

My Quiet Times Are Anything but Quiet

If busy and distracted moms wait for the ideal circumstances to read their Bibles, they’ll never read enough to sustain their weary souls.

Your Identity in Christ Means War: Why Women Need More Than Comfort

Your Identity in Christ Means War

Why Women Need More Than Comfort

We cannot soothe each other into relief from our problems. Our problems need the death of Christ, and they need our death in him.

Women, We Need His Word: A Plan for the Hungry and Busy

Women, We Need His Word

A Plan for the Hungry and Busy

Thousands of women have accepted the challenge to read the Bible this year. Read about the vision and download the fall reading plan.

Motherhood: A Call to Arms

Motherhood: A Call to Arms

If our celebrations of motherhood are only sweet and sentimental, we have missed the awesome power and influence God has given to women.

Mom Enough

The Fearless Mother’s Heart and Hope

This short book by eight women explores the daily trials, worries, and hopes in motherhood.

The Real Life of the Pro-Life Home

The Real Life of the Pro-Life Home

There are times to stand on sidewalks and hold signs, but holding a sign isn’t what makes a mother pro-life.

The Unbaked Biscuit

I’ve had this thing going lately about biscuits. It is probably due to the colder (delicious) fall air. This is the season of comfort food. But to have comfort food, there needs to be a comfort person. This is not…

Motherhood Is Victory

Motherhood Is Victory

Women no longer bear children in the hope of the Messiah. They bear them in the victory that Christ has won.

Of Kids and Christmas

One of the serious responsibilities of parenthood is pulling off Christmas. If you have a little posse of kids you already know what I am talking about. Weeks and weeks of mad-dashing and shopping and wrapping and brainstorming and decorating…

Motherhood Is Application

Motherhood Is Application

God is not above the smallest or most difficult moments in mothering. He is there teaching us, leading us, and refining us in them.

Motherhood Is a Calling

Motherhood Is a Calling

And Where Your Children Rank

When you prioritize your children, you testify that you value what God values and refuse to value what the world does.

Motherhood as a Mission Field

Motherhood as a Mission Field

Motherhood gives us the opportunity to lay down the things we cannot keep for the people we cannot lose.

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