Table of Contents — Light Duties

Light Duties is a book delivered one article at a time. Consider this the Table of Contents. Each article also has a link to the relevant audio file.

#1. Before we begin

Growing our own teeth {bonus}

#2.The Duty and Light in Light Duties

#3. Duty Devouring Motherhood

Giving Children What They Want {bonus}

#4. God-centred Duty, the Conduit of Love

Inadequate Mothers {bonus}

#5. You Are Inadequate, But That is Not All

But, What Can You Do? {bonus}

#6. Duty is Not the Enemy of Happiness

We aren’t good mums and we don’t deserve to be happy, but… {bonus article}

#7. God’s Goodness Causes Happiness

#8. Mothers, We’re Awkward About Goodness and That’s Not Good

#9. Our Appetite for Happiness is Meant to be Big

# 10. Good Motherhood Defined

#11. It’s Good to be Busy at Home

#12. Responsibility: Men, Women and Marriage

#13. More on Marriage: Motherhood as Helping

#14. About Fathers

#15. Hedging Our Bets

A Biographical Interlude {bonus}

#16. A Variety of Difficulties

#17. How Dads and Mums Might (Accidentally) Reform Churches

#18. Good Motherhood is Limited and Afraid

#19. Your Limited Life is No Accident

#20. Mothering is Temporary, But Not Disposable

Because I’ve Just Numbered 40 {bonus}

#21. Choosing Timely Motherhood

#22. Withhold Not Good

Unseen Motherhood {bonus}

#23. The Good Word Lights Up the Good We Are to Give

#24. The Non-Negotiable, Essential Duty of Motherhood

#25. The Inconvenient, Inefficient, Indispensable Church

#26. Children a Hindrance to Abiding in Jesus?

#27. Feeding on the Bible When Our Meals are Interrupted

#28. Too Simple for Experts

Churches Need Revived Families {bonus}

#29. Something for the Kids?

#30. Better than a Playdate

#31. When the Church Loves Children

#32. Church Full of Kids, but No Kids’ Church

#33. Is Worship the Right Word for Sunday?

#34. Unseen Worship

#35. How Kids Grow to be in Church

No Heavy Lifting {Christmas bonus}

Reclaiming Time Without Urgency {New Year Bonus}

#36. The Less Than Ideal Church

#37. Why Motherhood Is Boring

#38. Constant Embodied Worship

#39. Overflowing Home

Losing Our Maternal Bristles {bonus}

#40. “Go” is Not the Only Verb in the Great Commission

#41. Wrong Ideas About Mission Stifle Motherhood

Bible Reading in Our Family {audio chat only}

#42. The Mission of Motherhood: Teach Them To Obey Jesus

#43. Why We Don’t Teach Kids to Obey Jesus

Christian Music For Kids {audio only}

Teaching Kids to Obey Jesus {audio only}

#44. If Your Theology Stops Obedience…

#45a. Ideas That Hinder Obedience: Total Depravity

#45b. Ideas That Hinder Obedience: Belief Before Behaviour

Boredom {audio only}

#45c. Ideas That Hinder Obedience: The Threat to Grace

Bible Reading Challenge {audio only}

#46. Some Basic Features of Teaching Obedience

#47. Taught to Obey, by Whom?

#48.The Perils of Teaching Obedience

To the Young Women, Thinking Ahead {audio only}

#49. Belong and Obey

Digital Kids {audio only}

Maternal Mood and Mental Health {audio only}

Maternal Mood Strategies {audio only}

How Do Kids Become Independent? {audio only}

#50. Restraining Cute Blasphemy

Q&A 1

What if it Doesn’t Work Out Well? {audio only}

#51. Obedience is More Fun

Guest Interview: Homeschooling Young Men

Christmas Greetings Uncut {audio only}

#52. Two Ways to Ruin Motherhood

Evangelism {audio only}

Abundance and Loss in Motherhood {audio only}

Affection Follows Attention {audio only}

#53. Ruined, Recycled, Restored

Q&A: How to Fill the Time? {audio only}

#54. Stretched, Strained, Sustained

God Will Not Do What We Imagine {bonus}