Learning to grow marriages the way God intended them to be
I used to hate Proverbs 31. Yea, I’ll admit it. The Proverbs 31 woman used to really irritate me, because she was the impossible standard for every woman. My friends would get married and would try to be The Proverbs 31 woman incarnate and I’d watch them stress themselves out to be the ultimate homemaker,…
The term patriarchy has come under a lot of criticism lately, even in the church. The question is this, is patriarchy a God-designed system, or did man design it, and how should the church respond to the pushback against patriarchy? Patriarchy is a society or structure that is governed by men. And there is a…
Submission and authority are not a man-made structure; they are a God structure. God designed women to live in submission to their husbands, not as a way to demean and devalue women; but as a layer of protection. Submission is a step of faith, choosing to place our lives, our future, and the final word…
What is the biblical context of authority and the chain of command that God teaches? Was the idea of patriarchy, submission, and male authority just a cultural standard in the Bible, or does it apply today? If it does apply today, how does that fit in with the idea of freedom in Christ, and Paul’s…
I was recently asked by a man who traveled as a church business consultant why pastor’s wives no longer were actively involved in the ministry like they were in the past. It is true that the role of the pastor’s wife has changed through the years. When we pastored our first church in the early…
A wife of noble character is a crown to her husband but a disgraceful wife is like decay in his bones. Proverbs 12: 4 I have been in the ministry alongside of my husband for over 50 years. I will readily admit that when I first answered the call to ministry I was very idealistic….
