Written By Ken Alexander “Wives should submit to their husbands in everything” is a fundamental command for all those who want to do marriage God’s way. One can never arrive at a point where two have truly become one flesh until the two are in union and harmony with each other. This is not to say that a wife leaves wisdom behind once she takes her vows, nor does it mean she is to follow her husband into sin. Submission…
Parents must teach and warn their children about pornography. All children will be exposed to it so it is imperative for the parents to know how to go about it. In No Greater Joy’s latest magazine, Michael’s daughter Rebekah Anast shared how her dad taught this to his children. It’s so important so I thought I would post it here. One day when I was 8 years old, I went down to the mailbox to get the mail. Lying in…
We are told in Titus 2:5 to be obedient to our husband so the Word of God be not blasphemed. Why is this the case? How can disobeying our husbands blaspheme (speak evil of) the Word of God? Again, I go to the old-time commentaries that actually understood that wives were commanded to OBEY their husbands and didn’t try to water it down at all. “The duty of wives is, submission to their husbands in the Lord, which includeshonoringand obeying…
There’s a movie calledAdam’s Rib that was made in 1946 with Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn in which their two characters were married and competing lawyers. At one point, Spencer shouts at his wife, “I don’t want a competitor, a competitor. I want a wife!” It reminds me of a book that was just written bySuzanne Venker calledThe Alpha’s Female’s Guide to Men and Marriage: How Love Works. I have not read it but what I have read from Suzanne,…
A woman wrote me this letter recently and I thought many of you would enjoy reading it. I do love receiving letters from wise women who read my blog because they give a different perspective. Interesting circumstance yesterday morning in doing some on-lineresearch for my husband, I came across a blog posting on“Why Your Pastor Should Say ‘No More to BethMoore.” With hundreds of comments listed, I began reading. Whew! Took awhile. As I read, I realized anew why God…
Gary Thomas wrote an article entitled Dear Church: It’s Time to Stop Enabling Abusive Men. He gives a few examples where divorce is the only option. “Her husband is a persistent porn addict watching videos. He has neglected her sexually except to fulfill his own increasingly bent desires. He keeps dangling divorce over her head, which makes her feel like a failure as a Christian. He presented her with a list of five things he wanted to do that he…
A woman’s sister-in-law had posted this on Facebook. She gave me her permission to share it with all of you. Little backstory, she lost her husband in 2012 in a work related accident, leaving her with eight children to raise by herself. ~~~~~~ We did it again. The water heater gave out on us, so we boiled water on the stove top and the children found out how to survive without hot water at their fingertips. Yes, they did say,…
Normally, I don’t write posts on Saturday and Sunday but I felt compelled to write one today to explain my comment policy. I have done this in the past, but it needs to be explained again. My blog is a teaching blog. I am not going to publish comments that teach things that are contrary to what I teach. If you have an honest question, that is great, but I get comments that are longer than my post explaining why…
Whenever I teach that women are commanded to not be preachers/teachers of the Word but to be silent in the churches as the Apostle Paul has taught, invariably I have women tell me that women can prophesy in the church because of 1 Corinthians 11:5. “But every woman that prays or prophesies with her head uncovereddishonorsher head: for that is even all one as if she wereshaven.” Years ago, I listened to Michael Pearl teach 1 Corinthians and he taught…
“Why do you think women despise the biblical term “weaker vessel” in describing women?” I asked this question to the women in the chat room and here are some of their replies. “When I was much younger, I had the mentality that ‘I can do anything a man can do. I don’t need a man.’ Sure I always thought about getting married, but I didn’t look at it from a biblical perspective and how valuable each gender is…the strengths of…