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Carolyn Mahaney

Carolyn Mahaney is a pastor’s wife and homemaker who has written several books with her daughter, including True Life: Practical Wisdom from the Book of Ecclesiastes. Carolyn and her husband, CJ, have four children and twelve grandchildren.
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Hope for Your Unhappy Life

Hope for Your Unhappy Life

Apr 13, 2023
The book of Ecclesiastes may not seem practical or approachable at first, but its words offer hope for even the hardest circumstances.
Carolyn Mahaney
Apr 13, 2023
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Tears May Tarry for Now: Trusting God in Times to Weep

Tears May Tarry for Now

Trusting God in Times to Weep

Mar 29, 2020
Tears are a fact of life and an expression of the pain we experience. The little book of Ecclesiastes prepares us to interpret them.
Carolyn Mahaney
Mar 29, 2020
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Whatever My Lot: Embracing the Day God Has Made

Whatever My Lot

Embracing the Day God Has Made

Sep 24, 2019
Whatever today holds — joys or sorrows, excitement or boredom, hopes fulfilled or disappointed — God made today. Let us rejoice and be glad in him.
Carolyn Mahaney
Sep 24, 2019
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Every Day’s a Bad Day: How Ecclesiastes Taught Me to Enjoy Life

Every Day’s a Bad Day

How Ecclesiastes Taught Me to Enjoy Life

May 26, 2019
The sooner we face the fact that we live and work in a sin-cursed world, the more realistic and stable and happy we will be.
Carolyn Mahaney
May 26, 2019
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May She Be Beautiful and Strong: Lessons from Mothering Daughters

May She Be Beautiful and Strong

Lessons from Mothering Daughters

Nov 29, 2018
Daughters who love and obey Jesus are not only beautiful themselves, but they make everything around them more beautiful.
Carolyn Mahaney
Nov 29, 2018
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A Different Kind of Daughter: Raising Women in an Age of Feminism

A Different Kind of Daughter

Raising Women in an Age of Feminism

Aug 21, 2018
Biblical womanhood is God’s delightful design for women as revealed in the Bible. Those seeds need to be planted and replanted in our daughters’ heart.
Carolyn Mahaney
Aug 21, 2018
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The Cure for Most of Your Unhappiness

The Cure for Most of Your Unhappiness

Jan 25, 2018
If we harbor any hope of true happiness for our days, we need to choose to shove back all the noise and listen to God’s voice each morning.
Carolyn Mahaney
Jan 25, 2018
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My Biggest Mistake as a Mother

My Biggest Mistake as a Mother

Nov 13, 2017
Mothers who put doing good ahead of trusting God will soon break under guilt and fear.
Carolyn Mahaney
Nov 13, 2017
Book
Sex and the Supremacy of Christ

Sex and the Supremacy of Christ

Jun 14, 2005
We can’t just celebrate sex for what God made it to be. We have to fight what sin has turned it into. Sex is ultimately for the glory of God.
John Piper + 7
Jun 14, 2005
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Conference Message

Sex, Romance, and the Glory of God: What Every Christian Wife Needs to Know

Desiring God 2004 National Conference

Sep 25, 2004
Practical advice for how to encourage your husband through physical intimacy.
Carolyn Mahaney
Sep 25, 2004

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