Welcome to the sixth entry in the Soul Sisters series (which, by the way, I still think is a really cheesy title). Click here for the introduction to the series.
Today’s truth:
The most content women are not those who have everything the world can offer, but who have everything Christ can offer.
What does the world try [...]
Filed under: Biblical Femininity, Christianity on June 18th, 2008 | 6 Comments »
From the time we were little girls, we gazed hopefully or agonizingly in the mirror, longing to be pretty. We noticed women who had that elusive and desireable quality, a special loveliness. We scrutinized every aspect of our faces, criticizing our flaws and concealing them with makeup as soon as our mothers let us. We noticed [...]
Filed under: Biblical Femininity on April 7th, 2008 | 9 Comments »
I’ve been looking for a way to express how I feel about some other facets of biblical manhood and womanhood. These quotes are right up my alley. The concept of “complementarianism” has been abused in many places by those who claim to be proponents of it. And sometimes the emphasis is so much on that touchy [...]
Filed under: Biblical Femininity, Marriage/Family on March 13th, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Rosa is a seventeen-year-old Honduran girl who is part of Compassion International’s Leadership Development Program. This program “works with high achieving and high potential students from Compassion child development centers.” I read about Rosa in a Compassion blog entry, and I found myself moved by her hard work, her hope, and her potential. She is someone [...]
Filed under: Biblical Femininity on March 13th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
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 »
I just finished rereading Passion and Purity by Elisabeth Elliot (read my review here), and I wanted to share several excerpts that are particularly helpful or poignant.
“I’m afraid the snake has been talking to that person. He’s been sneaking up and whispering, ‘God is stingy. He dangles that beautiful fruit called marriage before your eyes [...]
Filed under: Biblical Femininity, Marriage/Family, Singleness/Dating on February 12th, 2008 | 5 Comments »
We talk about modesty a lot in the church, don’t we? And yet we as Christian women are often reluctant to commit to it. There seem to be so few clothing options. Or it seems to be confining and subservient. Or it’s too much trouble to think about specific standards for ourselves. The list of excuses/cop-outs [...]
Filed under: Biblical Femininity, Christianity, Culture on January 29th, 2008 | 22 Comments »
