I stomped into the choir room and demanded an explanation, going into a rant worthy of Julia Sugarbaker on Designing Women (I know, I’m old). I said something like: while it’s true that the Bible says sex outside of marriage is a sin, having a baby is NOT a sin. Furthermore,...
23 How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers! There will be great distress in the land and wrath against this people. 24 They will fall by the sword and will be taken as prisoners to all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled on b...
Now in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots. And Peter, remembering, said to Him, “Rabbi, look! The fig tree which You cursed has withered away.” So Jesus answered and said to them, For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mo...
One verse in the Bible says, “Use your gifts and abilities to serve one another” (First Peter 4:10). Let me encourage you to volunteer for the most important ministry in your church by serving in the nursery. You will not only been ministering to the little ones but also impact a ...
Are caregiving and creative labor fundamentally at odds? Is it possible for mothers to attend to both? Few women artists feature prominently in the history of art, and even fewer who are mothers. How are motherhood and artmaking at play and at odds in the lives of women? What can we le...
Tonight’s reading was Genesis 15-20. In chapter 20 we learn of Abraham telling King Abimelech that Sarah is his sister. This is something he did regularly. Now, technically…technically…he wasn’t lying. They had the same father but different mothers so it was true. However, he used ...
women and nursing mothers in those days,for there will be great distress in the land[e]and wrath against this people.24They will be killed by the sword[f]and be led captive into all the nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled by the Gentiles[g]until the times of the...
286. “If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?”– Milton Berle Funny inspirational quotes that will brighten your day 287. “Bending beats breaking.”― Betty Greene 288. “Myfriendstell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don’t really know me.”—Garry Shan...
It was a single page from my novel. But it wasn’t just any page. It was the page where my protagonist—a man who has lost a wife and two children—comes to grips with God’s sovereignty in his loss. The first words on the page were, “I couldn’t understand why You would take...