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Book Review: Laceye Warner's Saving Women: Retrieving Evangelistic Theology and Practice
By: John Lommel | July 31, 2009
The church's patriarchal past (and present) is notorious for hiding and diluting the work of women for the kingdom of God. Laceye C. Warner removes the shadow from the evangelistic work of seven women from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in her book Saving Women: Retrieving Evangelistic Theology and Practice.
Poem: Equality
By: Julie Amos | July 30, 2009
Hand in hand, I know thee. Heart to heart, I love thee. Side by side, walk near thee. Face to face, work with thee. One hope, in Him we’re set free.
When Our Children Become Our Brothers, Sisters, and Friends in God's Household
By: S. Steve Kang | July 30, 2009
I often hear well-meaning parents talking about improving their parenting skills. Over the years, I have attended my share of parenting seminars and read books on the subject. Since I teach educational ministry courses at a seminary, numerous churches have assumed that I know something about parenting and have asked me to speak on parenting [...]
The Splendor of Marriage
By: Roger Nicole | July 30, 2009
The greatness of marriage is surely evident by its chronological place in the divine plan of creation, its crucial importance in the permanency and development of the human race, and the pivotal place of the great statement of Genesis 2:24: A man will leave his father and mother and be united with his wife, and they [...]
A Theology of the Generations
By: Beulah Wood | July 30, 2009
I am teaching an interactive class on family in a theological college in South Asia. Mothi Mary has organized her group to act as a mother, son, and daughter at the table. Daughter asks for a second helping. Mother says, “No. You do not need it.” Son asks for more. Mother gives him extra food. [...]
First Corinthians 7: Paul's Neglected Treatise on Gender
By: Ronald W. Pierce | July 30, 2009
A focused study of 1 Corinthians 7:1–40 by an evangelical addressing Paul’s extensive call for mutuality in marriage and singleness as it relates to the contemporary gender debate.
Marriage and Singleness as Teaching Tools of the Image of God
By: William David Spencer | July 30, 2009
I have often told my parishioners the biblical truth that we live in God’s schoolhouse. The world God created for us is a visual lesson of God’s existence and God’s watch-care over us. As one example, we are enveloped in a protective placenta of water vapor that shields us from the sun [...]
Editor's Reflections | Summer 2009 (23.3)
By: William David Spencer | July 30, 2009
Family is very precious to me. Those of you who have read our book Joy through the Night will know that my family was profoundly affected by the death of my sister in a drowning accident at a public pool on a playground field trip. Two years later, my father was critically injured [...]
The Ultimate Marriage Passage
By: Alvera Mickelsen | July 29, 2009
When Christians for Biblical Equality was quite young, I spent a day in Christian bookstores looking for books on marriage that CBE could recommend. I was searching for books that considered ALL the passages on marriage (especially New Testament passages)—more than just Paul’s words in Ephesians 5:22: “Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands [...]
What Makes a Marriage Work
By: William David Spencer, Aída Besançon Spencer | July 26, 2009
The goal of this workshop is to explore ideas to strengthen marriages by examining together biblical, attitudinal, and practical suggestions. All are welcomed to attend, whether married, engaged, or single.