Moms Like Christ: Emotional Wreck
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As moms we are super busy! We are pulled in many different directions at the same time in all the while wondering how we will survive. Our kids are our life. We live and breathe for them. But have we truly invested in our children? Have we gone to the Truth source to gain knowledge on what our children truly need? Have we approached God to see His opinion of parenting? Your first excuse may be finding the time. However, we can find time to scroll on social media, group chat with friends, or catch up on our favorite TV show. Our children deserve to be raised by mothers who equip themselves with God’s Word as their guide. Moms Like Christ is ready to help guide you through God’s Word to discover His Truths for your daily life decisions as wives and mothers. Set up to be completed with other Christian moms, Moms Like Christ will lead your group through discussions about 14 attributes of a Christian mom documented by scripture. You will parallel these attributes with women from the bible whose lives can give us guidance on righteous living. Ladies, God’s Word never returns void. As you meet together you will draw closer to Him, to one another, and you will become more confident in fulfilling your God given gift: motherhood.
Book 2: Emotional Wreck
Through An Emotional Wreck you will discover how to love unconditionally, how to create deep intimate relationships with each of your children, learn to embrace your faith as energy to keep going, and learn how to ride the emotional rollercoaster we call life. You will parallel these studies with a closer look at the lives of Bathsheba, the widow of Zarephath, Naomi, and Hannah. Each of these bible characters exhibit qualities we as Christian moms should reflect.
Sarah L. Bibler
Inspired to write her testimony at age 40, Sarah discovered God amongst the mess she called her life. At age 20 Sarah married the love of her life, only to discover the hardships of keeping your marriage God-centered. At age 24 she experienced her first heart wrenching miscarriage which led her towards the road of depression. As her life continued it’s up and down journey, Sarah found herself in a very dark place. All the while God was standing by ready and waiting for her to surrender her will to His. During this dark season of her life she became a mother to three children, carried a full-time middle school teaching job, and worked in various ministries. Her life was a constant busy schedule that never seemed to decline in activities. With the help of her husband and Christian friends, Sarah learned to rely on God as her strength. God surrounded her with many different Christian woman mentors; women to help her through when she was unsure of what, where, or how to make it. As she wrote her life story, God revealed to her 14 attributes of a Christian mom. With a deep love for God’s Word, she found 14 women from the Bible that paralleled these attributes. From her written testimony and Gods Word she wrote Moms Like Christ. Sarah wanted to create an environment where older women could mentor the younger women (Titus 2:3-5). Together with sisters in Christ women could study scripture, discuss the struggles of being a wife and mom, and develop relationships that would last a lifetime in the process. Sarah Bibler is a farmer’s wife of 23 years, mother of 3 amazing children, taught school for 19 years, and continues to mentor women in and out of her home.
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Moms Like Christ - Sarah L. Bibler
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ISBN: 978-1-9736-7915-8 (sc)
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2019917829
WestBow Press rev. date: 11/14/2019
Dedication
To three beautiful mommas. These ladies have walked beside me throughout the development of this book series. Their prayers, hours of proofreading, extended love, and support paved the way for me to complete these books. Thank you, Katrina Groce, Amber Grant, and Jennifer Helmlinger. I am forever grateful to each of you!
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Teacher Leader Guide
Basics of Leading a Women’s Bible Study
Procedures to follow when leading this book
Participants Guide
Introduction
Chapter 1 Loves Unconditionally
Chapter 2 Bathsheba
Chapter 3 Insight into Our Children’s Lives
Chapter 4 Widow of Zarephath
Chapter 5 Keep the Faith
Chapter 6 Naomi
Chapter 7 Emotional Wreck
Chapter 8 Hannah
Appendix A Example of Mapping God’s Word
Appendix B Memorization techniques
About the Author
Endnotes
Preface
Dear Mommas,
I am so proud of you for taking some time for you. As moms we put ourselves last on the list of priorities. Our families’ needs always take precedence over what we need for ourselves. Well, today you have taken the steps to do something for you. I wrote this book series with two purposes in mind: 1. To help women (moms) draw closer to God, and 2. To create an environment where the older women can mentor the younger women. This journey will not be an easy one. Satan does not want either of my intentions to be successful. He will encourage you to quit, make you feel inadequate, remind you of all your failures, and make the journey seem impossible. Don’t let him win! Together we can make it through. Believe in yourself, even if it’s for the first time in your life. Stay at it! Start today! You’re worth it! Your family is worth it! God is worth it!
Acknowledgments
Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.
—Titus 2:3–5 (ESV)
First, I want to thank God for using me as His vessel in writing this book. For many years I have journaled, noted, and jotted information down, and now it has been brought to completion. All praise and glory belong directly to my Lord and Savior. He directed my path and helped me to become the woman I am today. It is God who will make this book useful to the women who pick it up and diligently study it. Thank you for always guiding and leading me, Father.
Next, I want to thank my family for their patience and help as I made this book series a reality. Thanks for helping with all the housework, leaving me alone so I could focus, encouraging me to keep at it and not give up, and for loving me even when I fail. To Curt, you are the man of my dreams, and I love you forever and always. Thank you for loving me right where I am and pushing me to fulfill my dreams. Thank you for being my best friend. Thank you for being a wonderful father to our children. To Kaytlin, thanks for sharing the laptop with me. Thanks for not getting upset at me when I pry into your life. Thank you for being one of my best friends. I love you always, my sunshine. To Noah, thanks for asking me about my book and helping take care of Opal, our cute little puppy. All those trips to take Opal outside and ‘oopsie’ pickups don’t go unnoticed. To Caleb, thank you for staying up late with me while I was typing or writing. You always asked me about my book and now you can say your mom is an author! Thanks for encouraging me all the way through.
Next, I need to thank a lot of people that helped develop me into the woman I am today. My parents, Mike and Donna Porter. My brothers, Andrew, Ben, Daniel, and Isaac. Sorry for all the times I beat you up and told Mom you were the guilty one. To my sister, Anna Turner, for taking the leap of faith to become an author so I would know what to do. To my best friends for life, Katrina Groce, Annette Troyer, and Amber Grant. You ladies have inspired me more than you will ever know. Your unconditional love, helping talk through frustrating times, letting me cry on your shoulder, and leading me to God’s Word not only have helped me, they have helped my family survive.
Thank you to Jenn Hemlinger, Amber Grant, and Katrina Groce for proofreading and showing me love all the way through this journey.
I would also like to thank both sets of grandparents, Don and