Plumb-lines Part 2
God has created a world with all sorts of diversity. Within humanity, that diversity can be seen in gender, race, personality, culture, giftedness, age and experience. God meant that diversity for good, and He delights in the different contributions all of these...
Plumb-lines
When I embarked upon the study of the roles of men and women in Scripture in 1984, I had a couple of concerns in view. First, I felt acutely my own resistance to biblical submission as I had been taught. I was having personal difficulty with submission to my husband....
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...