Fruitful Abundance Home

Mom of 10 • Grammy to 7🌿 Rooted in Titus 2:3-5 guiding young women to love their husbands in kindness • build godly homes where the Word is honored.

[Fruitful Abundance Home @mirandabrown]

@Khan_Fatimaa1 @ireneke32991237 Grok is this true

[Mother Grundy @MotherGrundy]

Hospitality makes you look at your resources with more creativity and fresh eyes
(woah, let’s use spaces differently!)

and also sober self-assessment
(woah, I really should clean that more often!)

Don’t stop opening your home! ❤️

[Fruitful Abundance Home @mirandabrown]

You cannot preach integrity to your children while they watch you live a double life. Hypocrisy doesn't just weaken your influence, it teaches your children that Christianity is something you perform, not something you believe.

[Fruitful Abundance Home @mirandabrown]

@Lexy_Sauve I love this. I am a mother of 10. 44 years old with 7 grandchildren now. Still in the thick of homeschooling and grandparenting.
This is the most beautiful kind of tired.

[Dale Partridge @dalepartridge]

Mothers,

It's not that you're not worthy of a job, it's that a job is not worthy of you.

God made you irreplaceable.

Your children need you more than any employer. Society needs you to raise godly children more than any career.

You’re vital—at home

You’re disposable—at work.

[Pastor Rich Lusk @Vicar1973]

There's nothing more stupid in the church today than evangelicals doing a play-acting "Seder Supper."

First, we don't need to do a fake Passover. The church already has the Lord's Supper which is (among other things) the fulfillment of the old covenant Passover. Jesus gave us a meal. Why do something other than what he commanded? Why do another religious meal when Jesus already gave us one?

The reason some evangelicals get interested is the Seder is that, having eviscerated the true sacraments of their meaning and efficacy, they go looking for substitutes. They have emptied the true sacraments (baptism and the Lord's Supper) of mystery, yet, being human, they still yearn for meaningful and mysterious rituals, so they either borrow from Jewish tradition (the Seder as a substitute for the Lord's Supper) or they create their own (such as the altar call). The answer to this longing for meaningful rituals should be satisfied by reclaiming and understanding what Jesus gave us. Doing a Seder is not a way to return to the church's roots; it is the church engaging in idolatrous syncretism, no matter how well intentioned.

Second, most of the Seder is not actually rooted in Scripture. It's not the ritual described in Exodus 12 or later OT Scripture. Most of it comes from later extra-biblical traditions; indeed, most of it comes from rabbinic Judaism, and was established long after Christian faith and Judaism were clearly distinct and very different faiths. Even if those rabbinic traditions get infused with Christian symbolism, they are not "our" traditions and symbols. They comes from the Talmud, not the Bible. Christians have no more business doing a Seder than than they do keeping Ramadan or celebrating Kwanza. The church has her own meal, her own traditions, her own calendar, her own story. Why borrow from apostate Judaism? Why syncretize the Christian faith with a rival?

I have argued elsewhere that one deep-seated reason dispensational evangelicals are attracted to modern Israel is because they have rejected Christendom but still long to have an earthy, embodied cultural manifestation of the faith. The same thing is happening here - having minimized the power of the Christian sacraments, these same evangelicals look to Judaism to provide what they (wrongly) think their own religion lacks.

Third, for Christians to try to perform an old covenant Passover in any way is virtually blasphemous - and it's impossible anyway. Will the Seder meal only be for the circumcised per Exodus 12, and those who keep the cleanness laws of Leviticus? Where are are Levitical priests going to be found to administer the ritual? How does taking this pseudo-Passover meal outside of Jerusalem get justified in light of Deuteronomy 16? How will a lamb be sacrificed at the temple, per the old covenant requirement, since the temple was destroyed in 70AD? Will 2 year olds be welcome to eat the Seder since the Passover meal was for the whole household and obviously included young children? What about the shedding of blood after Jesus' death on the cross - on what basis could any Christian revert to an animal sacrifice when the final sacrifice has been offered?

The Passover was part of a system that God ended in 70AD. To turn back to it (especially in rabbinic/Talmudic form) is no better and no different from turning to paganism (cf. Gal. 4:8-11). The whole point of the Last Supper is that Jesus has transformed the old covenant Passover into something better - the new covenant meal of the Lord's Supper. Doing a Seder is participating in a religious system that rejected Jesus as Messiah.

There's more that could be said, but these reasons are fully sufficient for Christians to reject the Seder. Do the meal Jesus gave us. Do it every Lord's Day, like the apostles did. Read Calvin on the real (Spiritual) presence and embrace a theology of sacramental efficacy. Use good bread and real wine. We don't need weird non-Christian rituals to give the season meaning.

[Fruitful Abundance Home @mirandabrown]

@PavGill @Kamscan Would love to see more photos.

[Fruitful Abundance Home @mirandabrown]

@WhidbeyWXGuy Seem in Kamloops

[Fruitful Abundance Home @mirandabrown]

@_haliax_ @rawsalerts @imthebaby5 Let’s be honest and serious about this
People are dead. Students, teachers, community members. Over two dozen wounded. This wasn’t a late-night ghost school break-in it happened in broad daylight during school hours and it’s an absolute travesty.

[Fruitful Abundance Home @mirandabrown]

@_haliax_ @rawsalerts @imthebaby5 What school is open this late?”
That question is based on pure ignorance. There’s no credible report that any school in Tumbler Ridge was open at 8 p.m. The shooting happened in the afternoon, at a normal school hour. That’s when classes would be in session.

[Dale Partridge @dalepartridge]

The vast majority of Protestant Christians have never submitted to the elders of a local church.

They simply go to the church that affirms what they already believe. If their beliefs change, they leave for another church that matches those beliefs.

It’s an endless cycle of insubordinate and self-centered Christianity.

My advice:

1. Study the historic confessions of the Protestant Church—The Augsburg, The Thirty-Nine Articles, the Westminster, or the Three Forms of Unity.

2. Find a fruitful church that holds to one or more of these confessions and stay there for life (as long as they do not stray from their confession).

[Fruitful Abundance Home @mirandabrown]

#Kamloops families need to speak up.
We won’t apologize for wanting innocence for our children.
Kamloops can do better. And it’s time parents say so respectfully, but without fear and without apology.

[Fruitful Abundance Home @mirandabrown]

I’m going to say this plainly, because too many parents are afraid to say it:
A *Christmas* market does not need Drag Queen Storytime. Period.
Christmas is the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ not a blank slate for every modern ideology to attach itself to. #Kamloops
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[Fruitful Abundance Home @mirandabrown]

Pretending that drag (which comes directly from adult entertainment culture) is perfectly normal children’s programming is dishonest.
Parents are not “bigots” for protecting their kids. They are doing their job.
#Kamloops

[Fruitful Abundance Home @mirandabrown]

We all know the truth:
If a city-sponsored Pride event included a Nativity story and preaching about Christ, the outrage would be instant. Yet Christians are constantly told to sit down, be quiet, and watch the meaning of Christmas be diluted year after year.
#Kamloops

[Fruitful Abundance Home @mirandabrown]

@flabbytofit99 We chose to build a family instead of my résumé.
10 children, and I stayed home with every single one of them.
5 are adults now, and I’m still home finishing strong and faithful.
It wasn’t the easy road, but it was the right one.
The sacrifice was real but so is the harvest.

[Fruitful Abundance Home @mirandabrown]

Full cloud coverage #PinantanLake #Kamloops

[Fruitful Abundance Home @mirandabrown]

@rawsalerts Good.

[Allie Beth Stuckey @conservmillen]

Reminder that we have more humane rules for kittens and puppies being separated from their mothers than we do newborn children birthed via surrogate. This should be a crime.

[Fruitful Abundance Home @mirandabrown]

@5solas It’s not “just candy” or “just costumes.” It’s participation in a cultural ritual that celebrates the exact things Christ died to destroy. And if you think you can do that “unto the Lord,” you’ve lost sight of the holiness of the Lord Himself.

[Fruitful Abundance Home @mirandabrown]

@5solas You can’t sanitize rebellion. You can’t “Christianize” what God calls detestable. Scripture doesn’t say, “Avoid witchcraft… unless you’re just doing it for fun.” Ephesians 5:11 says “Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.”