Keepers at Home Resources

"The mother who is faithful in the home honors God just as truly and fully as the most self-sacrificing missionary." by Arthur W. Pink (1886-1952)

"When the family shall no longer have a head, and the great foundation for the subordination of children in the mother’s example is gone; when the mother shall have found another sphere than her home for her energies; when she shall have exchanged the sweet charities of domestic love and sympathy for the fierce passions of the hustings; when families shall be disrupted at the caprice of either party, and the children scattered as foundlings from their hearthstone, — it requires no wisdom to see that a race of sons will be reared nearer akin to devils than to men. In the hands of such a bastard progeny, without discipline, without homes, without a God, the last remains of social order will speedily perish, and society will be overwhelmed in savage anarchy." by R.L. Dabney (an American Christian theologian in the 1800s)

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"The woman who makes a sweet, beautiful home, filling it with love and prayer and purity, is doing something better than anything else her hands could find to do beneath the skies.  [...]  A true mother is one of the holiest secrets of home happiness. God sends many beautiful things to this world, many noble gifts; but no blessing is richer than that which He bestows in a mother who has learned love’s lessons well, and has realized something of the meaning of her sacred calling." from Secrets of Happy Home Life by J.R. Miller (1840-1912)

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The True Calling of Women The 19th Sermon on 1 Timothy 2

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Godly Women commentary on 1 Timothy 2:15 and Titus 2:4–5

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The Role of Women summary of the Old and New Testament regarding women's role in home and church

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"Therefore act, and do still, as being under the power and authority of your husband. Now touching your behavior toward your children and servants. You are a parent, and a mistress, and so you should demean yourself. And besides, seeing the believing woman is a figure of the church, she should, as the church, nourish and instruct her children, and servants, as the church, that she may answer in that particular also; and truly, the wife being always at home, she has great advantage that way; therefore do it, and the Lord prosper your proceeding." from Family Duty by John Bunyan (1628-1688)

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"The evil of a wandering and a gossiping spirit; this is evil in the church, and is evil also in a wife, who is the figure of a church. Christ loves to have his spouse keep at home; that is, to be with him in the faith and practice of his things, not ranging and meddling with the things of Satan; no more should wives be given to wander and gossip abroad. You know that Proverbs 7:11 says, ‘She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house.’ Wives should be about their own husbands’ business at home; as the apostle says, Let them ‘be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands.’ And why? Because otherwise ‘the word of God will be blasphemed’ (Titus 2:5)." from Family Duty by John Bunyan (1628-1688)

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"Mothers, be specially careful to regulate your daughters well; for the management of them is easy. Be watchful over them, that they may be keepers at home. Above all, instruct them to be pious, modest, despisers of wealth, indifferent to ornament. In this way dispose of them in marriage. For if you form them in this way, you will save not only them, but the husband who is destined to marry them, and not the husband only, but the children, not the children only, but the grandchildren. For the root being made good, good branches will shoot forth, and still become better, and for all these you will receive a reward. Let us do all things therefore, as benefiting not only one soul, but many through that one. For they ought to go from their father's house to marriage, as combatants from the school of exercise, furnished with all necessary knowledge, and to be as leaven able to transform the whole lump to its own virtue." from Homily 9 on First Timothy by John Chrysostom (347-407)

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"Marriage and motherhood have their trials and tribulations, but what lifestyle doesn’t? If you look upon your home as a cage, you will find yourself just as imprisoned in an office or a factory. The flight from the home is a flight from self, from responsibility, from the nature of woman, in pursuit of false hopes and fading fantasies. If you complain about servitude to a husband, servitude to a boss will be more intolerable. Everyone in the world has a boss of some kind. It is easier for most women to achieve a harmonious working relationship with a husband than with a foreman, supervisor or office manager." from Choosing a Career by Phyllis Schalfly (1924-2016)

"They [wives] are to be workers at home.  We’ve dealt with the attitudes of a woman, love toward husband, love toward children, wisdom and purity.  Now, we turn to the very important issue, the sphere of her responsibility, workers at home, oikourgos, literally a house worker.  This is the sphere of a woman’s life.  It is her domain.  It is her kingdom.  It is her realm.  The word is derived from the word ‘house‘ and the word ‘work.‘  A house worker.  It doesn’t simply refer, by the way, to scrubbing floors and cleaning bathrooms and doing that.  It simply connotes the idea that the home is the sphere of her labors, whatever they might be." from God's Pattern for Wives, Part 2 by John MacArthur

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"She is to be the home keeper, to take care of her husband, to provide for him and for the children, all that they need as they live in that home.  Materially, she is to take the resources the husband brings home and translate them into a comfortable and blessed life for her children.  She is to take the spiritual things that she knows and learns and to pass them on to her children.  She is a keeper at home.  God’s standard is for the wife and mother to work inside the home and not outside.  For a mother to get a job outside the home in order to send her children, even to a Christian school, is to misunderstand her husband’s role as a provider, as well as her own duty to the family." from God's Pattern for Wives, Part 2 by John MacArthur

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"The most unschooled non-believer can read that the Word of God says young women are ‘to love their husbands, love their children, be sensible, pure, workers at home, kind, and subject to their own husbands.‘  And if he can read the Bible and look at the church, he can make a very simple conclusion – ‘You Christians say you believe the Bible, why don't your women live like this?‘  You see, it brings discredit on the Scripture to say we affirm the Scripture, but we live however we like.  Or worse, we live however the culture - being basically controlled by Satan, the prince of the power of the air - dictates us to live." from God's Plan for Younger Women, Part 2 by John MacArthur

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It's ok to only want to be a wife and mother:

"God gave women the natural instinct to nurture and submit to our husbands as to the Lord. Don’t listen to feminist ’boss babes’ who attempt to convince you that you need to compete with men to be ’something’ in this world. Being a wife and mother is the greatest thing women can be. It is a blessing."