Michael Foster
@thisisfoster

I'm a pastor, writer, and businessman. My wife and I have eight children and live on a small farm in Batavia, OH. God is good.

 Batavia, OH
eastriverchurch.org
Joined January 2014
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Words for Those Who Recently Miscarried

These are a few thoughts for couples who have experienced a miscarriage and are still in those immediate days and weeks afterward. My wife and I have lost two children, one daughter to a very

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Pastors Under the Feminine Gaze

Churches should be places where effeminate men are nurtured into godly manhood, as grace restores their masculine natures. The Church, of all places, should not just welcome patriarchy—the rule of

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Some Thoughts of Being a Large Family

Well, Emily is over three months pregnant with our tenth child. We had been keeping this quiet as we processed it, because it came as a surprise. I am 46. She is 42. We thought we were done adding

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The Power of Little Habits

When I think of habit formation, I think of the movie Groundhog Day. Bill Murray plays a narcissistic weatherman who relives the same day, Groundhog Day, for 30 or 40 years. He is sent to

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The Rhythm of the Lord's Day

by @thisismrsfoster* From the very beginning of Scripture, God built a Sabbath rhythm into the world. He creates for six days, then rests on the seventh, setting it apart, sanctifying it as a day for
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Building a Good Name

Everyone is religious, at least in a broad sense. Since we were made by God to worship God, we are going to worship and serve something. The question is never whether we will worship, but which god it

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The Rhythm of Spiritual Disciplines

by @thisismrsfoster For the next five* weeks, we're going to study rhythms. A rhythm is a discipline, something repeated, something that exists on a cycle. An intentional practice. All of us

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The Rhythm of the Household: How a Wife and Mother Can Build Patterns of Life in their Home

Note: What follows is my attempt to cut my wife's teaching transcript and notes by two-thirds to a size people might actually read online. We will post the entire unedited piece later this year. A

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Unpopular Church Conflict Advice

I’ve had a lot of people reach out to me over the years about serious church conflicts, disputes, and discipline. Usually, they’re reaching out when things have not gone well, at least from their

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The Normalization of Female Sexual Degeneracy

There is a disturbing explosion of female sexual degeneracy. It’s a real threat to the women we love and care for. And while its source is well-known, the danger tends to get downplayed or

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Wife-Led Rhythms in Marriage

This is authored by Emily Foster (aka @thisismrsfoster) When marriage gets hard, it is easy to fixate on the other person's failures. Sometimes those failures are real. Sometimes they are serious. A

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Ownership Isn't Consumerism

Yesterday's article was about ownership, specifically, how we pay more and more for lower-quality products we don't actually own. Some readers took that as a defense of consumerism. It wasn't. I know
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