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Let women speak (Part Four)

As a complementarian, I believe that men and women have been created equally but have been given different roles in the church and in the home. Therefore, as a complementarian who takes the Bible seriously I want to honour what it teaches. This series started in 2019 with this post, it was a result of me realising afresh that women weren’t being given the opportunities that they should be given to speak in Christian circles. I reposted the blog on my social media a few weeks back and was asked to expand on some of the reasons why women probably don’t speak much. I gave three reasons…

Women haven’t been asked to speak
Women have been taught that they must always be silent
Women might think that they can’t contribute anything worthwhile.

So let’s dig into that third reason…

Silent Cries

There are some books that I wish never needed to be written, but sadly we live in a world that is tainted by sin and our human bodies are not free from that curse. This book is the journey of a couple Jonny and Joanna Ivey through the heartbreak of having a stillborn baby. As much as I don’t want books like these to have to exist, I am thankful that the Ivey’s invite us to join them in their journey and learn along with them. There aren’t many books that bring a tear to my eyes, but this one did…

Saturday Snippets (March 13)

As well as reading a lot of books, I also read a ton of articles every week. Here are some of the articles that I’ve read recently and have found interesting, helpful, challenging and encouraging. I hope that they will be the same for you, my dear readers…

Let women speak (Part Three)… They’ve been taught to be silent

Women haven’t been asked to speak
Women have been taught that they must always be silent
Women might think that they can’t contribute anything worthwhile.

So let’s dig into that second reason…

Guest Post: Encouraging female evangelists

This is a guest post by Nay Dawson. Views expressed in this article are the author’s and do not necessarily reflect those of this blog.

In the ‘Passion for Evangelism’ (PfE) termly book club, we have been reading and discussing Aimee Byrd’s excellent book Why Can’t We Be Friends? Aimee reminds us that the way to stand against culture’s inadequate and over-sexualised word around men and women is by not allowing it to drive us apart.

“the way to stand against culture’s inadequate and over-sexualised word around men and women is by not allowing it to drive us apart”Tweet

Rather, she says, ‘It is by seeking the brother-and-sister closeness we are privileged to have as Christians. True, godly friendship between the sexes that embraces the family we truly are in Christ serves as the exact witness the watching world needs.’ As women and men proclaim the gospel together, we have an opportunity to show the world to show what restored, sibling relationships look like. Men and women working together in evangelism adorns the gospel and points to a better story!

Easter: The Greatest News

Death, it is not a topic that many people in our world like to discuss. We don’t talk about death around the dinner table much, it’s probably more of a conversation killer than a conversation starter. But if this is the case, why exactly do we as Christians talk about and actually celebrate the death of Jesus at Easter? Here’s a brief explanation and a great wee giveaway that explores that very thing.

Saturday Snippets (March 6)

Let women speak (Part Two)

This week I reposted a blog post that I wrote in 2019 about the importance of letting women have a voice in churches. The article got more attention than expected and I was reminded that in the article I hinted at further articles on the topic.

I said this… “There are so many gifted women in the pew who could do so much but they 1) haven’t been asked, 2) have been taught that they must always be silent (I might write a whole post on this one soon!) or 3) they don’t think that they can contribute anything worthwhile.“

I’d like to take each of those 3 points and write a short blog series about them. Here goes…

Masters or Slaves

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a topic that I’d not really thought about much until last year. In 2020 I read ‘The Age of AI: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity‘ by Jason Thacker. That book sparked a little bit of an interest in the topic and was the introduction I needed to read more articles on AI and ultimately to read this book…