Welcome to the third entry in the Soul Sisters series! Click here for the introduction to the series.
Guest post by Eva (my mother!)
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Today’s truth:
Submission in a godly marriage is not demeaning; it is freeing.
Submission is a matter of trust – a matter of the heart.
“The Lord has done great things for us and our hearts [...]
Filed under: Biblical Femininity, Marriage/Family, Scripture on February 28th, 2008 | 10 Comments »
Welcome to the second entry in the Soul Sisters series! Click here for the introduction to the series.
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Today’s truth:
You do not need to sacrifice your modesty in order to prove that you are “comfortable with your body.”
Contemporary culture is exploiting women by selling us a lie - a lie that says unless we are willing [...]
Filed under: Biblical Femininity, Culture on February 26th, 2008 | 13 Comments »
Welcome to the first entry in the Soul Sisters series! Click here for the introduction to the series.
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Today’s truth:
You are a creation of God, and your worth comes from that fact, not from what the males around you say or think.
For many years, it has been a struggle for me to not let my heart be ruled by [...]
Filed under: Biblical Femininity on February 25th, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Many of you will remember my post from last month entitled Sisters… what I long for you to know. As I phrased it then, that entry was “a stream-of-consciousness list of things I want[ed] to share with my sisters in Christ.” Having reread that list several times since then, I have decided to make it [...]
Filed under: Biblical Femininity on February 24th, 2008 | 5 Comments »
“It is absurd to think that the truth of obeying… God’s principles can result in anything less than joy.”
-my dad
Filed under: Christianity, Scripture on February 22nd, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Did anyone happen to see the lunar eclipse last night? I was leaving babysitting when I noticed how clear the sky was and how full the moon was, so I just took a minute to admire it. Then later, when I was watching American Idol at my sister’s friends’ apartment , they said there was [...]
Filed under: My Life on February 21st, 2008 | 5 Comments »
One way I try to live my life is with respect for those older than me. As I’ve written before, this is so lacking in contemporary American culture. We’re encouraged to view the young as the smart and powerful ones, and not to take advice from anyone older than we are. In Titus, Paul instructs [...]
Filed under: Culture, Personal Reflection on February 21st, 2008 | 32 Comments »
May I ever be the sinner weeping in the corner, begging God for mercy, instead of the eloquent “righteous” person standing in the middle of the room, heaping empty phrases into heaven’s ears.
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Not so long ago, a man from Galilee
Fed thousands with His bread and His theology
And the truth He spoke quickly became the joke
Of [...]
Filed under: Christianity, Personal Reflection on February 19th, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Winter is a creeping confinement. One November day, snowflakes drift down gently and surprisingly. Snow is a novelty, a refreshing glimmer against the cold gray of late autumn. Then, if it’s a good year, snow lies peacefully in sloping white heaps throughout December, enough to look pretty but not to impede Christmas preparations. We need [...]
Filed under: Personal Reflection on February 19th, 2008 | 12 Comments »
“For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.” (1 Corinthians 1:18)
“But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and [...]
Filed under: Christianity, Personal Reflection, Scripture on February 18th, 2008 | 6 Comments »
