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Women's Place in the Church as Taught in Holy Scripture
By: CBE International | July 31, 1988
Reproduced from The Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal, vol. 27, no. 6, June 1896.
Who Are the Women in I Timothy 2:1-15 (Part 2)
By: Berkeley Mickelsen | April 30, 1988
We turn our attention to the presence or absence of the Greek article in the crucial passages that have been used for centuries to limit the participation of women in teaching and leadership in the church.
Who are the Women in 1 Timothy 2:1-15 (Part 1)
By: Berkeley Mickelsen | January 30, 1988
This passage in I Timothy has caused much confusion about what women can or cannot do in church services or in teaching. In the oft-heated discussions, a verse or two, or even a single phrase is sometimes selected and the rest of the passage ignored.
Is There a Head of the House in the Home? Reflections on Ephesians 5
By: James R. Beck | October 31, 1987
Ephesians 5:15-6:9 is a Haustafel (a table of household duties) and is the central passage for Pauline teaching on Christian marriage. The passage, along with its reduced parallel in Colossians, is well known by persons of all persuasions on the issue of the relationship between wives and husbands.
The Black Family who Adopted Moses
By: Richard Kroeger, Catherine Clark Kroeger | April 30, 1987
There are many great blacks who have influenced our spiritual heritage. We find them both in and out of the Bible. We should like to tell you the story of the priest’s family who took in Moses in his hour of desperation.
Ancient Heresies and a Strange Greek Verb
By: Catherine Clark Kroeger | March 1, 1979
. . . The twelfth verse (italicized above) contains a rare Greek verb, found only here in the entire Bible. This word, authentein, is ordinarily translated “to bear rule” or “to usurp authority”; yet a study of other Greek literary sources reveals that it did not ordinarily have this meaning until the third or fourth century, well [...]
Pandemonium and Silence at Corinth
By: Richard Kroeger, Catherine Clark Kroeger | June 1, 1978
Although we may idealize the early church, most of us would not have enjoyed a visit to a worship service at Corinth. The impression which one was most likely to receive was that of chaos and delirious insanity.