by Penna Dexter DALLAS (BP)–A recent Washington Post column has blogosphere feminists a little upset. Charlotte Allen’s “Women vs. Women” column March 2 was a tongue-in-cheek diatribe about how dumb women can be. Since I am a woman, I should be insulted. I am not, however, because — beneath the insults — there are some gems of truth and wisdom dealing with rising above feminist dogma and using our God-given gifts, including our brains.

Pastor John Scripture Reference: Mark 4:1-20

The next meeting of the men’s class on Bible study methods will be 7 AM, Saturday, April 19. We will continue learning various methods of Bible study to better understand God’s Word.

The following paragraphs were excerpted from the testimony of Mehdi Dibaj. He was an Iranian convert to Christianity who endured 9 years in prison for the charge of being an apostate. He ended up dying for his faith. In jail, Mehdi Dibaj endured 2 solid years of solitary confinement, suffered repeated beatings and mock executions. His wife even divorced him and renounced the Christian faith upon being threatened with stoning. Yet in the face of such hardship, while still in prison he wrote these words.

“Make love, not war.” Perhaps no phrase better defines the American sexual revolution of the 1960s. The promise of the sexual revolution was pleasure freed from the constraints of traditional morality. Ideas of abstinence and marital fidelity were seen as obstacles to achieving the greatest sexual pleasure and personal fulfillment. As one author summarizes a popular book of the period, If individuals took a rational view of sex, there would be no more jealousy, no more monogamy, no more shame—all products of Judeo-Christianity’s superstitious anti-sex agenda. . . . In fact, by eliminating shame and self-loathing, sexual rationalism would solve […]

Pastor John Scripture Reference: Romans 6:1-14

Pastor John Scripture Reference: Luke 22:7-38

By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible. Hebrews 11:3 (NIV) St. Augustine said famously, “Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.”1 No better application of that principle can be found than in the realms of cosmology and anthropology. If one rejects God, one rejects the ability to see the true origin of nature, including man.

—John Chrysostom (c. 349 – 407) John the “Golden-mouth” (Chrysostom) was known as an eloquent and insightful preacher who was greatly loved by his congregations in Antioch. When he became Bishop of Constantinople, the new capital of the Roman Empire, in 398 A.D., John used his position to encourage godly behavior by Christians, not least in their marriages. In an exposition of Genesis 16:1ff, he counsels husbands to show gentleness and unselfish love towards their wives and thus bring peace to the household. Such a marriage, based on mutual respect and Christian devotion, glorifies God and as a result will […]

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