by Ruth Burke | Apr 24, 2018 | Uncategorized
“An overseer, therefore, must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, self-controlled, sensible, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not an excessive drinker, not a bully, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not greedy.” 1 Timothy 3:2-3 In our last post on headship,...
by Debbie Boyce | Apr 13, 2018 | Uncategorized
Ephesians 5:22 Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord, 23 because the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church. He is the Savior of the body. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives are to submit to their husbands in...
by Debbie Boyce | Apr 6, 2018 | Uncategorized
Deuteronomy 6:20-23 reads: 20 “When your son asks you in the future, ‘What is the meaning of the decrees, statutes, and ordinances that the Lord our God has commanded you?’ 21 tell him, ‘We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a...
by Ruth Burke | Apr 4, 2018 | Uncategorized
This week we are taking a closer look at Ephesians 5, one of the passages in the Bible that talks about specific roles for husbands and wives. “Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord, because the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the...
by Debbie Boyce | Mar 11, 2018 | Uncategorized
Teaching about gender roles feels very out of step with our current culture. Suggesting there is any difference between men and women worked out in roles and impacting aspirations for careers and accomplishments is often assumed to be coming from patriarchal views of...