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Gifted for Leadership: Men and Women Sharing Equally in Leadership
By: Darin Poullard | July 26, 2009
This workshop will provide attendees with a biblical foundation for gender equality in leadership and steps for making one’s church egalitarian. It will also address challenges to egalitarianism.
Are Women and Men from Different Planets?
By: Liz Sykes | July 25, 2009
The whole thrust of this conference is the issue of gender (pink & blue?) What constitutes gender ? How much are we influenced by the culture around us and particularly the Christian culture ?
"I Just Didn't Think About You"
By: E. Nicole Saylor | July 22, 2009
“When the previous youth minister was here, he always filled in when the pastor was out,” Bethany, a youth minister at a church in the southeastern United States told me. “But the entire time James is on vacation, he’s gone to great lengths to find others to fill in. I am really hurt that [...]
Walter Liefeld on Titus 2
By: JL P | July 17, 2009
Titus 2:3-103 Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good. 4 Then they can urge the younger women to love their husbands and children, 5 to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be [...]
May Women Serve as Deacons?
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | July 15, 2009
“I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a deacon of the church at Cenchreae, so that you may welcome her in the Lord as is fitting for the saints, and help her in whatever she may require from you, for she has been a benefactor of many and of myself as well” (Rom. 16:1-2 NRSV). [...]
A Great Host of Women
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | July 8, 2009
As you may know, the question of whether women can serve as deacons has been recently debated among many evangelicals. Since Scripture makes clear that Phoebe served as a deacon in the church in Cenchrea, there is an abundance of historical and archeological evidence that women deacons were upheld by the apostles. Both Clement of [...]
An Inclusive Name
By: MaryAnn Nguyen-Kwok | July 1, 2009
by Mary Ann and Sam Mary Ann: Did you know there was a man in biblical times who took his wife's family name? In Nehemiah 7:63, a man is mentioned named Barzillai, who had married a woman who was a descendant of Barzillai of Gilead and had taken her family name. He changed his name to [...]
Patriarchy Happens: An Exegetical Biblical Survey
By: Del Birkey | July 1, 2009
In this lecture, Dirkey traces the beginnings of patriarchy from the fall through the patriarchal years of the Old Testament. He argues that both Jesus and Paul were against patriarchy before ending by explaining that patriarchy will be abolished in the end times.
God's View of Singleness
By: Jessi Colund | June 24, 2009
I graduated from a wonderful Christian college about a year ago, and it was a great experience overall. However, one thing that really bothered me was the pressure felt by many of my friends—especially my female friends—to get married. There was a sense that a woman’s life would be most spiritually fulfilled [...]
Learning in Submission
By: Susannah Clark | June 17, 2009
I suspect there are few passages in the Bible that have caused more controversy than this. For centuries these words have been used to keep women from taking active roles in the church such as preaching, speaking, and leading. Tragically, so often, this passage has been taken in isolation, out of context, and with no [...]