Tag: biblical womanhood
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Please don’t tell me I need to balance my life!
Balancing life is the way of the world, not God’s way. The world’s scheme is to have us busily distracted by all our tasks and all our roles and all our responsibilities through what it calls “balance”. The world would have us believe that we can have it all through what it calls “balance”. Have…
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What It Takes to Have Great Faith – Meditations on the Canaanite Woman
By God’s providence, the Canaanite woman’s encounter with Jesus gives us profound understanding about faith that is great according to Jesus. We must give careful attention and ponder deeply on those words of Jesus, “O woman, great is your faith!” In this blog post, we will be meditating on her story as written in Matthew…
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When is it okay to follow your heart?
The Bible clearly teaches that our fleshly desires are at war against God’s desires (Mark 4:19; Romans 7:14-25; Romans 13:14; Galatians 5:16-1). I am certain that we all can testify from life experiences that this struggle within us is real. God Himself testified that “every intention of the thoughts of [man’s] heart was only evil continually” (Genesis…
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Women’s Ministry: Meditations on Titus 2:3-5
When we think about women’s ministry, we need to be asking ourselves, “What is it about this ministry that makes it unique for Christian women?” This answer is so significant, for there is no other church ministry that can specifically disciple women to flourish in Christ by fulfilling their God-given roles as the women of…
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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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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…
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Is it Biblical for the wife to work outside the home?
It may not seem like a big deal for a lot of 21st century wives to be working outside the home. But, as a Christian wife who is employed full-time outside my home, I was stopped in my tracks years ago coming across the verse above in Titus 2 where it says that a woman…
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5 Ways To Help Your Husband Grow Spiritually
You are the first one to taste the fruit of your husband’s spiritual life (Galatians 5:22-23). Everything from how he handles stress to how he spends his money to how he treats you are evidences of how he relates to God. Although you are not your husband’s savior nor are you responsible for his actions,…
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The Secret of the Proverbs 31 Woman’s Heart
This Proverbs 31 woman was so perfect, and I fell so short of this Biblical standard. But, as I meditated on and prayed this passage, there was one phrase that gave me much clarity and lifted that burden right off my shoulders.
Redeemed Woman 