For the New Year
We are grateful for those of you who have been reading and commenting and sharing our posts. As we turn to the New Year, Ruth and I would love your input on our topics. We plan to write more extensively on issues of Christian womanhood. That will take us into...
Jesus Cares About Women
In the last few days of the Christmas season I am reflecting on how much Jesus cared about women. He treated women with a dignity and respect that would have been shocking in His culture. Consider Luke 10:38-42: “While they were traveling, he entered a village, and a...
Thou who wast rich …. All for our sakes becamest poor
I am a campus minister for a Christian fellowship on a university campus. Part of my job is to lead a Bible study for women in their final year of college. We begin the year with a two month long study of passages in the Bible on money, possessions and charity. We...
Jesus Emptied Himself
By Ruth Burke “He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering who knew what sickness was.” Isaiah 53:3 CSB There have been times when I felt despised and rejected. One recent incident occurred at an urgent care center. I had taken my youngest daughter in on a...
Joy to the World!
When I was young, my siblings and I each had chores. Mine was to clean the bathroom. Once a week, I transformed our scuzzy bathroom into sweet smelling cleanliness again. At least that is how I remember it. I probably was not quite as effective in my work as I...
Remembering God’s Faithfulness This Thanksgiving
One year ago I could not have imagined where I am today. One year ago I was standing at the beginning of what felt like a very long, dark tunnel. Five months after the birth of my third daughter, I was adjusting to my new normal. I didn’t know it at the time but I had...