Gloria Furman Quotes & Sayings

If we want to give grace to our children, then first we must be willing to receive it ourselves from God. — Gloria Furman

Just the other day I witnessed a disagreement between a waiter and a customer over whether the coffee he served her was a cappuccino or a latte. — Gloria Furman

But what if, instead of starting with that question, we started by asking how that group can best be taking in the Scriptures so that they can understand their own stories in light of the big story of God's creating a people for himself through his Son? According to the Scriptures, how can that group be all about the story and the glory of Christ, who shines through the Scriptures from beginning to end? — Gloria Furman

It is quite easy to allow the gospel to become overshadowed by our own efforts to grow spiritually. Spiritual disciplines serve as gateways to cherishing the gospel, not as substitutes for the gospel. — Gloria Furman

Through the grace shown to us in the gospel, there is something distinctly Christlike about a mother's love for her child. — Gloria Furman

By God's grace I can resist the temptation to treat my children as interruptions to my will for my life. Instead, God enables me to treat my children as precious gifts he is using to shape me into his image according to his will for my life. — Gloria Furman

When I view motherhood not as a gift from God to make me holy but rather as a role with tasks that get in my way, I am missing out on one of God's ordained means of spiritual growth in my life. Not only that, but I am missing out on enjoying God. No amount of mommy angst can compare to the misery that comes from a life devoid of the comforting, encouraging, guarding, providing, satisfying presence of our holy God. — Gloria Furman

To get the whole story of Jesus, we must be regularly reading and teaching the whole book - New Testament and Old, narrative, poetry, Gospels, apocalyptic, Epistles, Wisdom Literature, prophecy - all of it! All the parts work together, in God's providence, to feed us fully on this one who comes and tells us that he is the living water and the bread of life. — Gloria Furman

Eve means "giver of life." I don't think this redemptive calling to be a life giver is only biological. The life of Christ in us enables women to be life givers, rather than life-takers, in every relationship, circumstance, and season of life. — Gloria Furman

We learned that the body of Christ grows by the Word of Christ, flexing its muscles to serve, stretching out its hands to heal, and dreaming up creative ways to bless one another using the gifts God has given. — Gloria Furman

We need to lose the mental image of our pre-Christian state as a drowning person helplessly flailing about in the water, hoping upon hope that someone might throw us a life preserver. Outside of Christ we are, in fact, spiritual corpses rotting on the ocean floor among the silt and sludge. — Gloria Furman

The reality of forever reminds us to prioritize eternity in our hopes for our children. But before we extend an eternal perspective to others, we must be hoping in Christ. Too often, my hope is in my ever-changing circumstances. I say things like, "I really need the baby to take his nap this morning," which is a fine thing to say and a fine thing to look forward to. But if, come lunchtime, the nap hasn't happened, and I'm so emotionally wasted by it that it ruins my afternoon, then I've probably put more faith in that nap than in the never-changing circumstances of the gospel. — Gloria Furman

It is contrary to our natural logic that God would choose to use the foolish and the weak to show himself to be wise. We have difficulty seeing how God is praised through our insufficiencies — Gloria Furman

The great problem a mother has is not a lack of creativity, accomplishment, or skill, but her inability to love God and others as Jesus loves her. — Gloria Furman

We need faith to trust that God doesn't merely "know what's best for us," but that he is what's best for us no matter what our circumstances are. — Gloria Furman

God can use the ordinary moments in your life to glorify himself by conforming you into the image of his Son. That is precisely what he intends to do. — Gloria Furman

The gospel is the one great permanent circumstance in which I live and move; and every hardship in my life is allowed by God only because it serves His gospel purposes in me. — Gloria Furman

But seeking the temporary reward of the world's approval can distract us from seeking the eternal reward of the Lord's approval. — Gloria Furman

The Holy Spirit will not allow you to live satisfied on the rubbish heap; he will nurture a longing for the City of God to beat in your heart. — Gloria Furman

Diaper that leaks onto the floorboard of my car while I'm stuck in — Gloria Furman

The greatest obstruction to our joy in God is not a lack of time. — Gloria Furman

When I take hold of Jesus by faith as my only hope to please God, God declares that I am justified. Christ's righteousness becomes mine. That's grace. — Gloria Furman

The false gospel of self-justification is a great enemy of the Christian faith because so many have been misled to believe that it is Christianity. — Gloria Furman

God's irresistible grace binds our wandering hearts to himself and frees us to love him back and overflow in love to our neighbors. — Gloria Furman

Preaching the gospel to myself each day is the best way to remind myself that my life in Christ is the prevailing, permanent reality in my life. — Gloria Furman

God is a good Father, and he never, ever considers for even one moment letting us remain satisfied with anything less than himself, because he is the most satisfying treasure in the whole wide world. — Gloria Furman

It's then that Jesus gives us more of himself, proving over and over that he is enough, that he is good, that there is more joy in him than in the grain and wine that abound (Psalm 4:7) - or in the kids who never make messes and the dinner that prepares itself and the schedules that operate seamlessly. He is better. — Gloria Furman

God has called us to something vastly bigger than our happiness or that of our children. — Gloria Furman

I need God's grace and something baked with peanut butter and chocolate. — Gloria Furman

All around the world, God is giving and sustaining life to the praise of his grace. His mercy is new every morning, and it's always morning somewhere. — Gloria Furman

This is because the greatest problem a mother has is not a lack of creativity, accomplishment, or skill, but her inability to love God and others as Jesus loves her (John 13:34). — Gloria Furman

What would our hospitality look like if we believed that Jesus's death on the cross was the measure of God's compassion for someone? — Gloria Furman

Problem. My biggest problem is that I live under the illusion that I can do anything I put my mind to while I give lip service to needing God's wisdom. I — Gloria Furman

Gifts are given by God and empowered by God to glorify God. — Gloria Furman

We do not put away our idols so that God will then accept us, but we put away our idols because God has accepted us in Christ — Gloria Furman

Theology is for homemakers who need to know who God is, who they are, and what this mundane life is all about. — Gloria Furman

A motley crew of racist, sin-sick, spiritual zombies is now one body under Christ. And individually they are new creations walking in humility, gentleness, and patience — Gloria Furman

Because of the gospel
the news about what Jesus did on the cross to save sinners
mothers who make Christ their treasure can rejoice in their work as God works in them. — Gloria Furman

Our ministries exist not simply for the purpose of helping people live well now; our ministries, like our whole lives, must aim for the end, when we'll see Jesus face-to-face. The — Gloria Furman

No mother's nightmarish valley is so dark that Jesus cannot bear her burdens the whole way through. — Gloria Furman

For some people the remark, "You're just like your mother [or father]," is enough to pick a fight. For a Christian, the greatest testimony of God's grace in our lives is the observation, "You're just like your Father. — Gloria Furman

We need to remember that God is no less good to us when we find ourselves in a battle of wills with a preschooler in the checkout line at the grocery store than he was as his Son dragged a cross up a hill that Friday two thousand years ago. — Gloria Furman

We ought to consider our home managing as the creation of a living organism that nurtures the peace of Christ and the righteousness of God. — Gloria Furman

Because God is good, we have an infinite number of reasons to praise him in our homes. — Gloria Furman

When the mundane looms larger than eternal life, we forget who God is, who we are, and who our children are. — Gloria Furman

Puritan Thomas Watson said, "Until sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet." I think Scottish minister Thomas Chalmers, who preached on "the expulsive power of a new affection," would have added: Until Christ be sweet, sin will not be bitter. — Gloria Furman

Mothering or nurturing is not just a calling for women who have biological or adopted children. Mothering is a calling for all women. Every Christian woman is called to the spiritual motherhood of making disciples of all nations. — Gloria Furman

The highest aim of womanhood is not motherhood; the highest aim of womanhood is being conformed to the image of Christ. — Gloria Furman

What a miracle that God would take sinners such as ourselves and give us new hearts with a disposition to love him and trust him in the midst of our circumstances. — Gloria Furman

Only the redeeming, all-powerful, transforming grace of God can raise our sin-besotted heart from the dead, give us eternal life, and set our gaze on Jesus, our blessed hope. — Gloria Furman

The course of this world is pervasive, keeping the captives quiet with the morphine of temporary pleasure at the expense of their eternal souls. — Gloria Furman

The gospel keeps me relating to God on the basis of Jesus's perfections, not on the illusions of my religious achievements. — Gloria Furman

For many of us homemakers our greatest fear is in being found incompetent, insufficient, and ineffective. We prefer to look like we've got it all together. We give lip service to the idea that nobody's perfect, but we would rather die trying to prove that we're the exception to the rule. — Gloria Furman

If we aren't clear on what the Christian gospel is, then what is at stake is not merely a harmless misunderstanding but eternal life and death. — Gloria Furman

So how do we know if we've assumed the gospel? Mack Stiles days so aptly that the way to know if we've assumed the gospel is this: you don't hear it anymore. Everyone talks to themselves. — Gloria Furman

When your eyes are fixed on the horizon of eternity, it affects your vision for motherhood. — Gloria Furman

At the end of every day - chaotic and mundane alike - motherhood is about the adoration and enjoyment of our great God. The — Gloria Furman

When we acknowledge our inability to mother our children apart from the Lord's provision and strength, we honor God. Of course we are not able to do this work of raising children and training them in the instruction of the Lord. That's why we desperately need the Lord! — Gloria Furman