1 Corinthians 11:2-16 2 I praise you for remembering me in everything and for holding to the traditions just as I passed them on to you. 3 But I want you to realize that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God. 4 Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his …
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My initial hope was to read about women in the church, write some posts, and be done with it. But as is often the case, the more you know the more you realize how much you don’t know. I have more questions than I started with. I’m keenly aware of my lack of knowledge regarding the context of these difficult passages and the history of how the church has viewed women. Even more—scholars …
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Being a woman used to mean being many things I wasn’t. Shortly after becoming a Christian, I listened to sermons like a maniac. David Platt, John Piper, and Matt Chandler especially. They quickly became my heroes and I found myself constructing sermons in my head when my mind wandered. I had a subtle but buried desire to teach, but neither the confidence nor place to believe I ever would. But I …
Less than a year ago, my view on women in ministry began to get disrupted. Desperate for answers, I went to a wise professor, expecting him to give me a simple yes or no answer on whether women should be pastors.[1] He took a while to answer my question. He seemed to give a lot of extraneous information. That’s when I realized this question is more complicated than I originally thought. Such is …
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There’s a tendency in many of us, myself included, to get too fixated on our own sin. We see the grievous ways of our hearts, and instead of letting our failures bring us to Christ, we collapse in on ourselves, falling deeper and deeper into a downward spiral. There are endless ways we don’t measure up. We don’t pray enough, we aren’t kind enough, we’re too insecure. Our sin is right in our face. …
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This is post 4 of the 4 part series on envy. Click here for part one, two, and three. A Parable on Envy The parable of the laborers in the vineyard speaks to our envy: And when those hired about the eleventh hour came, each of them received a denarius. Now when those hired first came, they thought they would receive more, but each of them also received a denarius. And on receiving it …
