Written By Karissa Collins Fertility isn’t forever… Many people look at my large family of almost ten, and their minds are screaming…NO THANK YOU.” I get it. I recently encountered a pregnancy announcement for baby number 16. My mind screamed…IS THIS EVEN POSSIBLE?” It looks scary. It looks impossible. It doesn’t look like much fun. But I am here to tell you that this life is not our own. This body is not our own. And who are we really…
Recently, I have been watching a few couples’ journeys through infertility on YouTube. They are young, Christian couples who want children desperately. One such couple is a positive and joyful couple. They have adopted a few children already and people ask them why they aren’t satisfied with them. “Why do you keep seeking ways to have a baby instead of being content with what you have or adopting more? After all, there are plenty of children who need to be…
“The women e-mailing me regularly are not worried about winning the pulpit. They’re still facing opposition over teaching the Bible to other women. They are fighting to be seen as necessary beyond children’s ministry and women’s ministry. They are fighting to contribute more than hospitality or a soft voice on the praise team. They are looking for leadership trajectories for women in the local church and finding virtually nothing. They watch their brothers receive advocacy and wonder who will invite…
Written By Elizabeth Shine I’m not a mother, and at 48 I’m unlikely to become one. My whole professional life, I’ve been leaning in. It wasn’t until things went badly wrong that I realized the human-capital value of a group of women modern society tends to ignore or dismiss, stay-at-home-moms. As a global management professional, I’ve lived and traveled all over the world. In 2015, my life exploded. On a dark April afternoon in Dubai, a perfect storm of issues…
Without fail, whenever I teach that women are not to be preachers/teachers of the Word of God, women will bring up a laundry list of women who were supposedly preachers/teachers in the churches. They ignore the clear commands that women are not to teach nor be in authority over men but to be silent in the churches. Instead, they search the Scriptures to try and negate God’s commands on this issue. Here is one such comment I received on my…
Evil seeks to destroy men. Feminism seeks to destroy men. Alcohol seeks to destroy men. Welfare, the government, and no-fault divorce seek to destroy men. Fatherlessness and divorce seek to destroy men. If Satan can destroy men, he’s won the battle. In my post about women needing men, there were plenty of women who told me that they didn’t need a man. That’s plain wrong. Children need a father. Little girls need a father. Little boys need a father. They…
Abortion is a hot topic these days. The movie “Unplanned” has helped it along. But Hollywood elites are crying, “Foul!” I just read one woman share how horrible her abortion was when she was four and a half months along and she wouldn’t want anyone to go through what she went through in bad conditions. Instead of grieving over the murder of her child and the toll this took on her body, mind, and emotions, she wants to promote abortion…
Written By Israel Wayne Every passage in Scripture that talks about education is directed to parents. No one else in the Bible is ever commanded to teach children other than parents (and in a supplementary role, grandparents). While the Bible doesn’t expressly forbid anyone else from teaching our children (in a supplementary role), the Bible does lay down these ground rules: 1. All education must begin with the fear of the Lord (which is the beginning of wisdom). (Proverbs 9:10)…
Nancy Wolegmuth from Revive Our Hearts did a study on Lot’s wife and the second-shortest verse in the Bible: “Remember Lot’s Wife” (Luke 17:32). It’s a great study, and I encourage you all to listen to it! After I listened to it, I decided to do a short study on my own. Angels came to Lot, his wife, and two daughters and told them to flee Sodom and Gomorrah before God rained fire and brimstone upon the cities and destroyed…
“MenCare, a fatherhood campaign working toward child-care parity in 45 nations, estimates that at the current rate of change, it will be another 75 years before women achieve gender equality in the home, a more optimistic figure than the 200 years the United Nations International Labour Organization predicted in March…Mothers remain more likely to miss work to tend to sick kids, to spend time with kids in the absence of another adult, and to maintain overall responsibility for managing the…