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Celebrating our Partnership

By: George Walther, Emily Walther | October 31, 1991

In this article we're going to look to the Bible for what really is God's plan for marriage. Then, we'll consider some biblical keys to partnership and discuss decision-making in our partnership.

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Topics: Marriage

God as Mother, Not Mother as God: A Biblical Feminist Response to the “New Feminism”

By: Aída Besançon Spencer | October 31, 1991

Can evangelical feminism be saved from secular feminism? In response, I propose that many of the needs and the bases for feminism come from God and God's followers. Further, both feminists and male chauvinists elevate values and perspectives that, in truth, should not be contradictory or exclusive from one another.

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Ministry and Meditation: The Spiritual Journey of Marchiene Vroon Rienstra

By: Debra Rienstra | October 31, 1991

This article is from a chapter in the book For Such A Time as This: Twenty-six Women of Vision and Faith Tell Their Stories, ed. Lillian Grissen. William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1991.

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Book Review: No Time for Silence: Evangelical Women in Public Ministry Around the Turn of the Century

By: CBE International | July 31, 1991

Chosen as one of ETERNITY magazine's best books of the year in 1987, this book encourages women to use their gifts fully in proclaiming the Gospel. Dr. Hassey presents the significant contributions made by American women engaged in public ministry in past years, and who were enthusiastically supported by such institutions as Moody Bible Institute.

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Book Review: Beyond the Curse: Women Called to Ministry

By: Gretchen Gaebelein Hull | July 31, 1991

Subtitled "Women Called to Ministry," Dr. Spencer's book presents a new look at Scripture's description of women's roles. She writes, "Whole dimensions of God, ministry, education and theology are being obscured and ignored if women are not properly trained, then invited, even more so welcomed, to participate as significant and affirmed once they do lead."

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A Home for One

By: Evelyn Bence | July 30, 1991

Home. What does it mean to someone who lives alone? Countless sermons, seminars, and songs, which define the word in terms of people, make one’s own rooms and furnishings seem less than adequate, less than deserving of the warm word. 

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Purity and Passion: A Biblical Approach to Mutually Edifying Relationships

By: Howard E. Frost | July 30, 1991

The extent of appropriate sexual interest and involvement outside of marriage is an important question young adults face. It is also a question of concern to any Christian regardless of age or marital status. Our sexuality, in all its dimensions, is a wonderful gift from God, to be enjoyed and appreciated. Indeed, it is much [...]

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Topics: Sexuality

On the Meaning in Context of those Troublesome Verses on Women in 1 Peter (And a Gentle Warning about Cross-Referencing Too Quickly)

By: Bruce C.E. Fleming | July 30, 1991

The following thoughts are presented to draw attention to the main thrust of 1 Peter 3:1-7. It is hoped that after reading the following article, whenever these verses are studied, the main ideas of the passage won’t be smothered by other ideas that are illegitimately imported from somewhere else.

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Biblical Feminism: A Christian Response to Sexism

By: Gretchen Gaebelein Hull | July 30, 1991

Biblical feminists see feminism not only as a social-justice issue but also as an issue of religious freedom. To the goals of political, economic, and societal equality of the sexes, biblical feminists add religious equality. Thus biblical feminists bring the whole scope of Scripture to bear upon discrimination against women.

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John Chrysostom’s First Homily on the Greeting to Priscilla and Aquila

By: Catherine Clark Kroeger | July 30, 1991

John Chrysostom (died A.D. 407) preached consistently through the Scriptures and many of his sermons are still extant. Here, for the first time in English, is his first sermon on Priscilla and Aquila. Translated from the Greek, by Catherine Clark Kroeger, Ph.D., CBE president, author, and classical scholar.

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