gender roles
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Being the ChurchTitus 2 young men are not boys
In Titus 2 Paul gives instructions to older women, younger women, older men and younger men, and gives instruction concerning the care of children. Every…
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In a NutshellTidbits – March 2026
Still true in some places… Johan had left Edmonton to go up northward, near Neerlandia, for a bit of skydiving. Late Sunday evening he was…
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Being the ChurchOlder men still have a job to do
Faithful children of God may look forward to sharing Jesus’ glory in the presence of the Father. “To live is Christ; to die is gain.”…
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DatingDude, where’s your bride?
As I speak at different venues across the country, one of the recurring questions I get comes from women, young women in particular. Their question…
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MarriageComplementarianism vs. Egalitarianism: there aren’t just the two positions
As my wife and I have been facing big decisions over the last few months, it’s been neat to see the way God has transformed…
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DocumentaryWhat is a Woman?
Documentary 2022 / 95 minutes Rating: 9 /10 What is a woman? That’s the question that confounded US Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson earlier…
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Adult non-fictionMen and Women in the Church: A Short, Biblical, Practical Introduction
by Kevin DeYoung 2021 / 170 pages Kevin DeYoung’s latest tackles an always timely topic. In the last few years, the “women in office” issue…
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Gender rolesWho’s Afraid of Proverbs 31?
I can still see the cartoon in my memory – she was robed in white, her nose in the air, gracing a marble pedestal under…
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Gender rolesMen and the Marriage Dance
Maybe I have been looking in all the wrong places, but in my ten years of being a Christian, I seem to have heard an…
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MarriageIs the Proverbs 31 wife an unrealistic supermom?
In his article “On being a Titus 2 young woman” Rev. Bouwman made a statement that likely had some readers blinking in surprise. He said of…
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DatingMarriable Men
Here’s a topic that’s best to get to too early rather than too late – what sort of men should our daughters marry? Dads are…
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Gender rolesNo, complementarianism is not inherently misogynistic
Complementarianism is the belief that God made male and female different and gave them different but complementary roles in the Church and in marriage. It…
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Gender roles#chairchallenge highlights male/female divide
We live in a curious age in which the self-evident isn’t. So if you have a friend muddled about whether men and women are different,…
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NewsSaturday Selections – November 30, 2019
Is surrogacy the same as adoption? (4 minutes) This short video offers three ways in which surrogacy is different than adoption: 1. Adoption seeks to…
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NewsNew York Times takes dads to task about housework
When will men stop shirking their share of the housework? That was the question a recent New York Times article asked, and the answer it gave…
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TheologyHow are we to understand the Bible?
Some years ago I attended a three-day conference on the topic how to read the Bible. Actually, the conference organizers used a big name for…
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Being the ChurchOn being a Titus 2 young woman
Older women [must] train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of…
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Being the ChurchOlder women have much to give
Our church has a sizable number of older women. Why? What task would the Lord give these sisters in His church? Like the older men,…
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DatingFaint heart never won fair maiden
On dating, Ephesians 5, and being a man A serious conversation requires serious chairs – the sort to sink down in and get properly settled….