Of the Ten Undeniable Truths of Womanhood, #6 is top of mind for women in their child-bearing years: All women make choices of no return.” Women of child-bearing years face a fork in the road of womanhood where there is no going back. One can neither retreat back to the fork nor take both paths simultaneously […]
I don’t want to think this, but perhaps I’m the only woman in the world who really doesn’t like Proverbs 31 because it has been the #2 most misused and #1 guilt-tripping passage about women in the Bible. It’s been used as defining some sort of religious superwoman before there were superwomen. Until the feminist movement […]
Undeniable Truth #4 of the Ten Undeniable Truths of Womanhood is “Once a mother, Always a mother.” This is very much a double-edged truth. It is both beautiful and poignant. And it’s a truth no one can prepare the mother for …before she becomes a mother and knows it by experience. First the poignant and sadder side: […]
Last Sunday and next, I am away from my responsibilities at Plymouth Congregational Church of Racine and arranged for my friend Rev. Bill Slater, a former missionary to Liberia and a blogger with an apologetics ministry, to preach in the interim. I do like to keep up with the sermon series we began back in […]
I’d like to proclaim freedom for women who have no children. Freedom from judgment. Freedom from guilt. Freedom from feelings of inferiority and feelings of being “less than” simply because one is not a mother. Freedom from sadness is one I’d like to proclaim too, but in truth I know how deeply this issue touches women at […]
As we continue looking at the Ten Undeniable Truths of Womanhood, we come to the second one: No man can teach a woman what is the truth of womanhood, even Christian womanhood. No man knows. I’m rather sick of John Piper’s view of womanhood. There. I said it. Men who profess to tell women what […]
This might seem like a no-brainer, but Christian men can still be real men without marriage. They also can be true Christians. In fact, in some areas of Christianity, one is considered a better Christian man if one is a celibate single man. Like the Pope or priests. If a man can be complete and Christian […]
I may be Seminary Gal, but I should start today’s offering with a bit of a disclaimer: I’m not a women’s pastor or even a person who particularly likes talking about so-called women’s issues. I don’t do women’s ministry as my primary vocation because I don’t fit the mold. I’m not fond of pink and […]
Have you ever wondered why sometimes God does a miraculous deliverance and other times God seems to be nowhere to be found and you feel like you plod through adversity alone? One of my favorite Facebook posts of all time was a cartoon that was Jesus answering the question, “Where were you?” to a guy […]
This sermon entitled Jailbreak (based on Acts 5:17-24) was first preached on January 18, 2015 at Plymouth Congregational Church of Racine, WI. Today’s jailbreak is a reminder that where God calls, He also provides in whatever way is required, even as He propels us back to our post, to do our duty as our obedience to […]
