Moms’ Huddle 2026
“Do not worry…
Your Father knows your need.”
Matthew 6:32 (NIV)
2025 saw the birth of our first Moms’ Huddle What Does the Bible Say About…? series.
When my husband retired from coaching high school football in 2013, I thought that part of my life was over. Five years ago, our oldest son Robert returned to his alma mater as the school’s head football coach and suddenly our lives took a very different turn.
Robert once told me I have a unique perspective for players’ moms. I was a football coach’s wife during my husband’s 38-year coaching career; a player’s mom for two sons; and now I’m the head coach’s Mom. Each year just before the season begins, Robert invites me to speak to the players’ moms on Moms’ Night. The goal is to encourage and equip them for the coming season.
2025 was my fourth season to talk to the team moms, but it was the first year anyone asked for an encore. Our Huddle groups met three times last year in different homes around our community. Team moms handled the organization and hosting details while I focused on teaching a short biblically based talk on whatever topic they selected. The groups varied in size, time, and location, but combined to demonstrate hospitality and build community.
Author Jane Howard writing on community says, “Call it a clan, call it a tribe, call it a network, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.” John Ortberg agrees saying, “The yearning to attach and connect, to love and be loved, is the fiercest longing of the soul. Our need for community with people and the God who made us is to the human spirit what food and air and water are to the human body.”
After our August 2026 Moms’ Night, several moms volunteered to organize and host another Moms’ Huddle. Our 2026 first Huddle’s topic was “What does the Bible say about…worry?” Together we asked three important questions:
What are some of the things we worry about?
What is worry and why is it harmful?
What are some other practical strategies to help us decrease worry?
Most of us worry about our children, marriages, money, jobs, health, and politics. In fact, it’s safe to say that worry is very much a part of our lives. Author Ed Welch writes, “Worriers are visionaries without the optimism.” Worry is defined as a state of anxiety over actual or potential problems. It usually cascades into anxiety and fear; robs our joy; and results in a toxic mixture that causes me to “churn and burn.”
My Matthew 6 NIV Bible chapter heading reads "do not worry." Throughout this passage, Jesus challenges us with his command: "Do not worry." He also reassures us that God knows our need; is a much more God; and a good, good, heavenly Father. But just as importantly, Jesus rebukes his disciples (and us!) for having "little faith." Throughout the Gospels, the five root causes for displaying little faith include: worry, anxiety, fear, doubt, and dullness. The result of little faith is one churning and burning, anxious, worried, & fearful heart.
Author Howard Hendricks correctly writes, "The heart of the problem is the problem of the heart." Worry is always a matter of our hearts.
The Bible gives us some very practical strategies for cultivating courage and steadfastness in times of worry, anxiety & fear. We:
Face our fears by identifying our fear trigger.
Feed our souls with God’s Word and prayer.
Fix our gaze on God himself, not our fears.
Finally, discipline your emotions and do the next thing.
“‘Do the next thing.’ I don’t know any simpler formula for peace, for relief from stress and anxiety that that very practical, very down-to-earth word of wisdom…The discipline of emotions is the training of responses,” writes Elisabeth Elliot.
Gratitude is another great defense against worry and anxiety as we remember, rehearse, & recall God’s past faithfulness and provision. Writing and recording God-given gifts one by one, brings clarity, perspective, gratitude, and joy. Pastor John Piper writes, "Moving the ink across the page opens up the eyes" and "there are eyes to see in pencils and pens."
All those in union with Christ have a good, good heavenly Father who knows our need. The question for each of us is simply: do I know my need and do I trust His provision?
Wherever you are today, do not worry. Your Father knows your need!