Month: February 2021
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What does it really mean to know that you are fearfully and wonderfully made? Reflections on Psalm 139
“I am fearfully and wonderfully made” (Psalm 139:14) is a popular catch phrase teaching in women’s ministry today. I see it used a lot in women’s devotionals and on t-shirts and coffee mugs to boost women’s sense of value. Unfortunately, this is misleading and misses the mark when women quote this verse and yet still…
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Forgiving And Moving Past The Hurt In Our Marriages
There was an older lady who shared with me the troubles during her earlier years of marriage. Though her husband is treating her much better now (as he has matured in the Lord), she still has so much hurt in her heart from the past physical and emotional abuse. “I feel like a wall that…
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It Takes A Strong Woman of Faith To Submit To Her Husband
Growing up in a very patriarchal culture, my mind was scarred with the culture’s negative connotations of submission as a sign of weakness and mindless subservience. Conveniently enough, the American feminist culture empowered my own fight to some how free myself from all male superiority, cultural restrictions on women, and second-class gender roles. This was…
Redeemed Woman 