Motherhood Without All The Rules: Trading Stressful Standards for Gospel Truths

Any mom who has tried to create a godly home for her family knows it doesn’t happen automatically. Through books, blogs, and Instagram accounts, culture asserts that good moms must follow certain standards and abide by certain rules if she wants what’s best for her children. She must do everything she can—and she must do it all just right.

Though the world around us may have critical expectations and rules for mothering, Christ instead calls moms to an intimate, abiding relationship with a triune God. Maggie identifies the main “rules” moms today often feel pressured to follow and counters them with Gospel truth. You’ll discover how the character of each member of the trinity practically impacts your role as a mom, so that instead of being a good mom, you grow to become a holy mom.

Maggie Combs is the author of  Motherhood Without All the Rules: Trading Stressful Standards for Gospel Truths (Moody Publishers, Fall 2020). When motherhood overwhelmed her, God drew her closer to him through writing her first book, Unsupermommy. She loves playing games with her husband and three boys, herding goats on their family farm, and reading young adult literature and cozy mysteries in her free time. It is her joy to disciple women in her local church and through her writing. You may have read or heard Maggie before on The Gospel Coalition, Risen Motherhood, Revive Our Hearts, The Journeywomen Podcast, and more. Find more gospel hope to unburden your soul at MaggieCombs.com or on Instagram and Facebook as @maggie__combs.