If Paul allowed women to pray and prophesy, then in what sense did he mean that women should keep silent in the meeting of the church_

Some authors point out that Paul’s prohibition against women speaking in church (1 Cor 14:34) must not mean exactly that, because earlier in 1 Corinthians (11:5) Paul had said that […]

December 25, 2018 by Ken Yates in Blog - Faith, peace, wrath
Are we grateful for the peace faith in Christ brought_ Add heading

In our church, we are going thru the Gospel of Mark. In Mark 5 there is the wonderful account of a woman who had an issue of blood for 12 […]

Will you be found by the Lord Jesus to have been one of His faithful servants_

I attended a conference in which a main session speaker said that the statement by Paul, “then each one’s praise will come from God” (1 Cor 4:5), shows that every […]

December 21, 2018 by Ken Yates in Blog - antinomianism, Gospel, Grace, law
Are you accused of being against the law_

Years ago, there was a popular country song called “I Loved Her First.” It was about a young woman getting married. The song is from the perspective of the woman’s […]

When and where does Paul want only males to pray and to speak_

Recently (see here) I wrote a blog addressing Ben Witherington’s defense of Evangelical feminism. One of the comments to that blog asked about feminist explanations of 1 Tim 2:11-15 and […]

December 19, 2018 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - Galatians, Grace, ministry
Is success in ministry about numbers_

Paul’s letter to the Galatians contrasts law-religion and grace-religion. The contrast applies not only to how you are justified before God, but also to how you live the Christian life. […]

Are false brethren false professors_

The expression false brethren (pseudadelphoi) only occurs twice in the NT. One of those uses is in Gal 2:1-5: Then after fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with […]

“What kind of burdens are your neighbors carrying_”

I believe that Christian “spirituality” boils down to loving Jesus and loving your neighbor. There are some other elements, to be sure, but that’s the master theme. And this isn’t […]

Have we observed the illustrations of Luke 13_1-5 carefully_

I’ve been working on a book on repentance. I wrote my doctoral dissertation on this subject over thirty years ago. Then about a dozen years later, I changed my understanding […]

Restore Gently

Have you ever read Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter or seen one of the film adaptations? The story is set in Puritan Boston. The protagonist is a woman named Hester […]

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