Every home a foundation : experiencing God through your everyday routines

Every home a foundation Experiencing God through your everyday routines

Phylicia Masonheimer

Book - 2024

"In Every Home a Foundation, Phylicia Masonheimer invites readers to reconsider their view of home. The Christian home is an image of both a coming spiritual reality and the existing spiritual reality of our family, the church. Through Christ, we can heal and build a home that brings joy to us and love to others. Every Home a Foundation will transform readers' view of home from a place of boredom to a place of purpose, train them to find joy in their daily tasks, and equip them to use their home to love others well by focusing on healing our view of home and creating a culture of faith; exploring the purpose in the mundane tasks of the home, including cooking, cleaning, laundry, mending, tending, and creating beauty; and learning... the importance of hospitality and creating a covenant home culture"--

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Subjects
Home > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Homemakers > Religious life > Biblical teaching.
Christian women > Religious life.
Published
Nashville, Tennessee : W Publishing Group, an imprint of Thomas Nelson [2024]
Language
English
Main Author
Phylicia Masonheimer (author)
Physical Description
xiv, 213 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-211).
ISBN
9780785292265
  • Introduction: Confessions of an Unlikely Homebody
  • Part I. A Theology of Home
  • 1. A Peaceful Habitation
  • 2. Loving the Home You Have
  • 3. Creating a Culture of Faith
  • 4. Restoring the Foundations
  • 5. The Spiritual Rhythms of Home
  • 6. All to the Glory of God
  • Part II. A Liturgy of Home
  • 7. Pearls Slipping Off a String: The Liturgy of Homemaking
  • 8. Salt of the Earth: The Liturgy of Cooking
  • 9. A Beautiful Undoing: The Liturgy of Cleaning
  • 10. Wash on Monday: The Liturgy of Laundry
  • 11. A Watered Garden: The Liturgy of Tending and Mending
  • 12. Filled with the Spirit: The Liturgy of Beauty
  • 13. A Longer Table: The Liturgy of Hospitality
  • Epilogue: If You Can Find the Beauty Here
  • Bonus Material
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • About the Author
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

The home is the "primary seat of discipleship" from which Christians can best serve God, according to this graceful guide. Masonheimer (Every Woman a Theologian) details how readers can live out God's purpose by finding beauty in "mundane" work like laundry or cooking (as all labor matters to God) or creating a "community of welcome" where "strangers, foreigners, sojourners" can gather. Appreciating one's home despite its imperfections teaches one to love "whatever He has given us," a lesson the author illustrates by recalling her grandmother's pride in her modest single-wide trailer, which "might have been small, but it was impeccably clean.... Just a place to feel safe and loved, to be fed and attended to." Interspersing the account with useful lessons for sprucing up one's living space (decluttering kitchen cabinets can help readers to better "enjoy the blessing under your feet"), Masonheimer makes a creative, open-minded case that the domestic and the divine need not be mutually exclusive. Christian homemakers will feel especially inspired. (Dec.)

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