This is a book review of Homemaking Matters: Living for God’s Glory In the Ordinary by Marci Ferrel.
Stars: *****
Harvest House Publishers (2026)
Christian Nonfiction
224 pages
Disclosure: I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. This post contains affiliate links.
Summary: When the daily work of caring for your home feels unseen, exhausting, or ordinary, this warm guide helps Christian women see their service as sacred work.
In Homemaking Matters, Marci Ferrell shows how the gospel changes everything, especially what we do in our homes. Blending biblical insight, lived wisdom, and practical takeaways, she helps you see each day not as a checklist of chores, but as a divine vocation with eternal significance.
From keeping up with family laundry to welcoming a friend over for dinner, every opportunity to serve others is an opportunity to serve God. With chapters on ordinary tasks, the ministry of home, mentorship, joy, and more, this book reframes homemaking as purposeful, valuable service that women in every season of life―young or old, married or single, with kids or without―can do for God’s glory.
Homemaking Matters
I love reading about homemaking, especially Christian homemaking as that’s what I am, a Christian homemaker. This book was especially amazing though as it fed my faith as well as my heart as a homemaker.
The book does include the usual spiel about homemaking being a way to honour God, which it is, but it also includes so much more. This book was such a good read I took 10 pages of notes in a note book. It includes a few Bible quotes that the author had in her book but also tons of quotes from her directly.
If it wasn’t obvious, this book is Christian nonfiction and therefore is for those who follow the faith. If you are looking for a secular guide to homemaking this is not it. But if you are a follower of Jesus and a homemaker, this is the perfect guide for you.
I especially like that it is not just a book for married women or women with children. She specifically addresses the single women who still has a home to tend. It’s important to consider all Christian women.
Each chapter has reflection questions which are really well thought out and really make you think. There is also a chapter prayer. I saved all the prayers to my phone so I can pray in bed. I’ve never taken 10 pages of notes from one book before so that’s saying something.
I already followed the author who is also known as The Thankful Homemaker but if you don’t, you should.
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