From Blessed Hope Podcast to Mill House Ministries

First, I want to thank you the reader for taking the time and seeing what this is all about. If this is your first-time hearing about any of this than enjoy seeing how God worked in our lives to transform from a simple podcast to a full ministry. If you were an avid listener of the podcast, I understand that this might be considered a crazy turn of events! Not only has the podcast not been running but it has transformed into something that it was not. Rest assured our hearts are still aimed at the Titus 2 approach and serving our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. The only thing that has changed is the method.

Podcasting has always been a passion of mine, and the Blessed Hope Podcast was able to reach the hearts and minds of thousands around the globe. Nevertheless, there were many serious drawbacks from having only a podcast. We realized that a new approach was needed to ensure that we were meeting the needs of our listeners and getting the Word of God out there while still upholding to a professional quality level.

After many weeks of praying and seeking the Lord, we came to the conclusion that a ministry was needed. Here we can do a blog for those who need it, have the capacity to have ministry resources, and to allow believers who also share in our aim of serving the Lord Jesus Christ to aid in our mission. Thus, Mill House Ministries was born. Yes, one day we might bring back the podcast, but if we do it will be a part of the Mill House Ministries umbrella. Nevertheless, if you want to hear the episodes of Blessed Hope Podcast, don’t worry you can always go back and listen (link provided https://anchor.fm/the-blessed-hope-podcast ).

I would point out one quick thing before signing off, the Blessed Hope Podcast was never meant to be a one stop shop for people in their growth in Christ and neither is this ministry, but I would ask that you give it a chance to aid you in your personal relationship with Christ. Subscribe and follow along. AND AS I ALWAYS SAID IN THE BLESSED HOPE PODCAST!

1) TAKE EVERYTHING BACK TO THE WORD OF GOD!

2) SPEND TIME WITH HIM EACH AND EVERYDAY!

3) KEEP FOCUSED ON THE RETURN OF OUR BLESSED HOPE!

Remember that our actions here in this life will have a lasting impact on the Kingdom to come. Let us not wait, let us not sit idly by, let us finish the race so that we all might hear “well done my good and faithful servant.”

Hold until relieved, our Blessed Hope is coming!

JL

An Introduction

Hello there! I am Alex, and if any of our followers from the Blessed Hope Podcast are here you would know me as the one who reads the daily Bible verses.  If you are not one of our followers from there that’s ok! We are excited to have you here.  So since this is my first blog, I wanted to give everyone a chance to get to know me.  I became a Christian in January of 2012, before that I was someone who would “play Christian”, but I had no idea what it actually meant to be a Christian and that is a Follower of Christ. This was nothing against my upbringing, in fact I had a great childhood.  I went to church camps where I had heard of Christ and heard that He had died for me, but I did not yet understand the significance of that action. I did not understand that I was a sinner, and that it was my sins that put Christ on that cross.  I believed that as long as I was a good enough person that I would make it to Heaven on my own merit. It wasn’t until I met JL in collage that I began to notice that there was something different about the Christ that JL was following, and the “Christian” actions I was doing.  After months of discussion and learning that it is through faith alone, in Christ alone, would I be saved and reconciled to God, I put my faith in Christ.

Now that you know a little bit more about me, I want to go into what the purpose of this part of Mill House Ministries is about. While this blog is directed towards women, I am in no way a Pastor.  I am simply a woman who loves Christ and wants to share what I have learned about my Savior with others, with the Bible being the ultimate authority.  I place the theme of this blog to be Titus 2:3-5 “3 Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good. 4 Then they can urge the younger women to love their husbands and children, 5 to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands, so that no one will malign the word of God.” And the second part of this blog can be found in Ephesians 5:1-2 “1 Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children, 2 and live in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.”

If your immediate reaction is to recoil at some “hot-buttons”, give me some time and I am sure I will address it, especially since when I was a baby believer I probably would have had the same reaction.  What I aim to do, is to share with you and help encourage Woman of Christ. I have seen far too many woman acting “religion,” having a works-based faith, or simply having a lack of understanding what the Scriptures say about our Lord and Savior. I want to be someone who “teaches what is good”, so that I can urge others to love those around them like God loves us. I want to help encourage others to be like the women found throughout the Bible, and not just the Proverbs 31 woman, but women like Ruth, Naomi, and Abigail. If you are new to the faith or have questions about what it means to be a Christian and don’t know these stories, don’t worry I have blogs planned to go into them, but I do encourage you to look them up yourself.  I want to encourage woman to be imitators of God, but mostly I do not want to malign the word of God.

From my background, I know that there are a lot of misunderstandings about what it means to be a Christian woman. In fact, I was once in a room where the leaders wanted the woman to stand up to apologize to the men for bringing sin into the world through Eve. Let me just say that this is very much wrong! And it is from that, and other experiences, that I can say I know Titus 2:3-5, has some “hot-buttons”. My goal with this blog is to help women truly see what God has for us, and I can tell you that it is an exciting journey to get to know our God!

As I said in the beginning, the Bible is the ultimate authority, and every post that I do will have the Scriptures there for you to read.  I implore you to read the verses on your own much like those found in Acts 17:11 “ Now the Berean Jews were of more noble character than those in Thessalonica, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true.” Take back everything that I say to the Word to make sure that what I am saying is true, and if you see things a little differently, reach out to me! I want to hear from you! 

Sincerely,

Alex