Raising the Bar - Wives by Paul Washer

There is more truth in the Bible than we will ever live out. Are you obeying?

Are you being conformed to the image of Christ?

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History of the Indestructible Book - Today and Tomorrow - July 17 & 18

History of the Indestructible Book
2009 Gadsden Conference on the English Bible

Friday and Saturday, July 17 and 18, 2009.

There is no cost to attend this conference.
Registration is available at registration but it is not required.

Mary G. Hardin Center for Cultural Arts
501 Broad Street
Gadsden, Alabama 35901

Speakers are from Reformed Churches, Primitive Baptist Churches, Southern Baptist Churches and Presbyterian Churches.


Friday, July 17 Printable Brochure

12:00 PM Registration Opens
12:30 PM Welcome and Introduction / Historical Translation Challenges ~ Michael Rogers
1:30 PM Why the History of the Bible is Important ~ Matthew Carpenter
2:30 PM The English Bible before 1611 ~ Lyn Caudle
3:30 PM Break
4:00 PM The 1611 King James Bible ~ Anthony Copeland
5:00 PM Dinner Break (on your own)
7:00 PM John Wycliffe – Star of the Reformation ~ Dr. George Ella
8:00 PM Question and Answer Session
8:30 PM Dismiss


Saturday, July 18 Printable Brochure

8:00 AM Registration Opens
8:30 AM The English Bible after 1611 ~ Ricky Tillis
9:30 AM John Albert Bengel – Father of Modern Biblical Scholarship ~ Dr. George Ella
11:00 AM Museum Exhibit Grand Opening
12:00 PM Lunch Break (on your own)
1:00 PM Viewing of Exhibits / Ink and Blood
2:30 PM Special Session – Children and Youth with Dr. Ella ~ Dr. George Ella
3:00 PM Modern Translation Challenges: A Case Study ~ Bob Hamilton
4:00 PM Canonization of the Scriptures ~ Steve Cowan
5:30 PM Diner Break (on your own)
7:00 PM William Tyndale – Heir of God through Christ’s Deservings ~ Dr. George Ella
8:00 PM Question and Answer Session
8:30 PM Dismiss

This Conference is a joint effort by several church denominations, The City of Gadsden and Gadsden State Community College.


Partners:

Mary G. Hardin Center for Cultural Arts
Gadsden Museum of Art
Gadsden State Community College
Gadsden Public Library
Ink and Blood - Dead Sea Scrolls to Gutenberg
Chattanooga Primitive Baptist Church
Dominion Baptist Church
Etowah Baptist Association
Fellowship Baptist Church (Cleveland, AL)
Fellowship Primitive Baptist Church (McDonough, GA)
Gadsden Primitive Baptist Church
Grace Fellowship Community Church
Harvest Fellowship Community Church
Heritage Primitive Baptist Church
Immanuel Baptist Church (no website link)

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Another Cat Outta the Bag - NEA and Big Money Power

The liberals are getting bold with their statements now that they have a President and Congress on their side. See They Said WHAT !?! also.

After reading and listening to this dare you, as a Christian, leave your children in the public school system which has leaders that hate us so much and despise everything believers stand for? They are more concerned with teacher's rights and their power, than with the individual child in the classroom.

General Counsel Bob Chanin in his farewell speech to the NEA. No wonder they wouldn't let him speak normally! This speech was a last request as he retires. (This is just a video clip.)

"Despite what some among us would like to believe it is not because of our creative ideas; it is not because of the merit of our positions; it is not because we care about children; and it is not because we have a vision of a great public school for every child.

The NEA and its affiliates are effective advocates because we have power. And we have power because there are more than 3.2 million people who are willing to pay us hundreds of millions of dollars in dues each year because they believe that we are the unions that can most effectively represent them; the union that can protect their rights and advance their interests as education employees.

This is not to say that the concern of NEA and its affiliates with closing achievement gaps, reducing drop rate rates, improving teacher quality, and the like are unimportant or inappropriate. To the contrary these are the goals that guide the work we do. But they need not and must not be achieved at the expense of due process, employee rights, or collective bargaining.

That is simply too high a price to pay."

The video below is the full speech of Chanin. The point above begins at 21:37. Warning there are quite a few expletives in this speech. There was no warning on the original video. Glad at least he has not been in the classroom, because if this is the way you give a public speech, imagine the normal everyday speech.




Not only does the NEA hate Christians but also they are pro-Abortion and pro-Homosexual Marriage.

National Education Association Defeats Measure to Take Neutral Abortion Stance

... the National Education Association defeated a measure that would have had it take a neutral stance on abortion. The NEA has long supported abortion, pro-abortion candidates, and sponsored a forum with the former late-term abortion practitioner George Tiller.

NEA flexes 'political muscle,' backs same-sex 'marriage'

The NEA recently held its annual convention in San Diego, California, where members voted on two issues of importance to those involved in the culture war. One of those issues was whether the union would support same-gender marriage. According to Jeralee Smith, co-founder of the Conservative Educators Caucus, the resolution passed by roughly a two-thirds majority.

"There are quite a few items where the NEA absolutely puts its political muscle behind taking down any legislation in any state that they consider to be discriminatory to homosexuals," says Smith. "And some of the language in the resolution also hints that the NEA will try to take down the Defense of Marriage Act [DOMA] on the federal level."

You think just a little bit of this might show up in the public schools?

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Winning the World and Losing Your Children – Sunday Style

Last night I read about Billy Sunday, the baseball player turned evangelist of the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. All I knew about Billy Sunday before was that supposedly he was a great evangelist that conducted campaigns similar to the Billy Graham crusades of recent history.

Now this post is not concerning Sunday’s theology, preaching method or his political activities. There are many that can discuss those topics better than I can. But this is about Billy Sunday’s family, his wife Nell and their children.

Billy Sunday left professional baseball to become a traveling evangelist shortly after he married Nell (Helen Thompson Sunday). It took him a couple of years to become famous as an evangelist but because of his having played for the Chicago White Stockings his name was common and attracted many just to see the famous baseball player. What started out as two or three evangelistic campaigns per year soon turned into by his peak nearly continuous campaigns. Here is a year as an example:

January-February, 1921
February 17, 1921
March 6-May 1, 1921
May-June, 1921
June-July, 1921
September-October, 1921
November-December, 1921

Although some were one day engagements, which the records of many are lost, many lasted for a month or more, several even lasted five, six or up to eight weeks at a time. While it is bad enough for a husband and father to be gone for so much time from his family, when the mother is gone also that adds to the problems.

After 1907, the year she had her last baby, Nell decided to manage and travel full time with her husband on his crusades. She left the children home with the live-in Nanny. While Billy Sunday’s campaigns grew and made more money with his wife’s complete management of them, the children suffered for it.

In 1908, Nell and Billy agreed that she would travel with him, leaving the three younger children in the care of a nanny. Nell managed the campaign organization, energized the Sunday publicity machine, and hovered over the collection plates. Her formidable manner “struck terror to the hearts” of those who tried to take advantage of her husband, and “tact was not her greatest virtue.” Nevertheless, her loyalty and sincerity made her Billy’s mainstay. Nell acted as a buffer between Sunday and the outside world, making it possible for him to concentrate on his preaching. It is doubtful that he could have become the sensational attraction that he in fact became without her assistance. Helen Thompson Sunday

Helen Edith Sunday Haines, born in 1890, was the only child that was really raised by Nell Sunday. She died of disease and Pneumonia in 1932.

George Marquis Sunday was born in 1892, William Ashley Sunday, Jr. in 1901, and Paul Thompson Sunday in 1907. These three sons were the source of untold grief and despair for their parents. They were drunkards, while their parents fought for Prohibition. They lived wild, riotous lives and embarrassed their parents. All three died before the age of 40 in tragic violent deaths. The oldest son committed suicide after being arrested for drunkenness and auto theft, one died while driving home drunk from a party, and the other crashed an airplane.

That isn’t all the three sons had a total of nine marriages between them. Nell Sunday was blackmailed and forced to pay large sums of money to the ex-wives in order to keep them silent about their sons infidelities.

The boys’ ex-wives remained a continuing dilemma for the Sundays. Some blackmailed the evangelist to keep quiet about their children’s infidelities. Others used gentler techniques to extract money, and Nell often provided friendly advice to the women when she responded with financial assistance. Helen Thompson Sunday

See although Nell Sunday claimed to be a Christian and worked hard to win others to the gospel she ignored God’s own commands for her family. She managed her husband’s career and made him a thriving success, while her area of responsibility her family suffered.

Titus 2:3-5
3 They are to teach what is good,
4 and so train the young women to love their husbands and children,
5 to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled. ESV

Mrs. Sunday was an early proponent of women working and not being confined to the home.

She supported women’s work during the war, and in one column she gloried that “at last, the doors of the Doll House have been opened and women have been invited to come into the great world outside. The rest is in their own hands.” Helen Thompson Sunday

It doesn’t matter what you are doing, even serving the Lord, if you are disobedient to His Word you have sinned. It doesn’t matter what you have sacrificed for the cause of spreading God’s Word, God desires obedience.

1 Samuel 15:22 Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, … ESV

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What’s a Wife to Do If … ?

When discussing the submissive attitude a wife should have in relation to her husband in marriage often the question gets down to what if he does this or wants me to that. While it would take forever to cover every possible “exception” and decisions should be made with prayer and the desire for God’s Wisdom, there are some principles we can learn from the Bible.

This is based on accepting the fact that the Bible says women are to be submissive to their husbands. I only see this as a controversy when Scripture is ignored. I’m not going to ignore verses such as:

Titus 2:3-5
3 Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good,
4 and so train the young women to love their husbands and children,
5 to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled. ESV

Colossians 3:18 Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. ESV

Ephesians 5:22-24
22 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
23 For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.
24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. ESV

But even our husbands are to submit to Christ as their head, just as we submit to our husbands. However, since nether husbands or wives are free from sin we fail mightily at times.

So what should a wife do if her husband is not submitting to Christ as his head but desires the wife to go against Scripture itself? That is complicated but here are some examples from Scripture of wives and their husbands.

We are commanded not to lie, right?

Colossians 3:9-10
9 Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices
10 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. ESV

Proverbs 12:22 Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord, but those who act faithfully are his delight. ESV

So what is a wife to do if her husband wants her to lie? Maybe asks her to call in work because he is “sick” when actually he partied to late, sign a false financial statement, or lie in court.

Here are some examples from Scripture of women pressured to lie.

Sapphira

Acts 5:1-11
1 But a man named Ananias, with his wife Sapphira, sold a piece of property,
2 and with his wife's knowledge he kept back for himself some of the proceeds and brought only a part of it and laid it at the apostles' feet.
3 But Peter said, "Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back for yourself part of the proceeds of the land?
4 While it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And after it was sold, was it not at your disposal? Why is it that you have contrived this deed in your heart? You have not lied to men but to God."
5 When Ananias heard these words, he fell down and breathed his last. And great fear came upon all who heard of it.
6 The young men rose and wrapped him up and carried him out and buried him.
7 After an interval of about three hours his wife came in, not knowing what had happened.
8 And Peter said to her, "Tell me whether you sold the land for so much." And she said, "Yes, for so much."
9 But Peter said to her, "How is it that you have agreed together to test the Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out."
10 Immediately she fell down at his feet and breathed her last. When the young men came in they found her dead, and they carried her out and buried her beside her husband.
11 And great fear came upon the whole church and upon all who heard of these things. ESV

Notice that Sapphira knew her husband was lying yet also chose to go along with him by lying herself. They both received the same punishment. What do you think would have happened if she spoke the truth?

Sarah (Sarai)

Genesis 12:10-20
10 Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land.
11 When he was about to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, "I know that you are a woman beautiful in appearance,
12 and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, 'This is his wife.' Then they will kill me, but they will let you live.
13 Say you are my sister, that it may go well with me because of you, and that my life may be spared for your sake."
14 When Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.
15 And when the princes of Pharaoh saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh. And the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.
16 And for her sake he dealt well with Abram; and he had sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.
17 But the Lord afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife.
18 So Pharaoh called Abram and said, "What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?
19 Why did you say, 'She is my sister,' so that I took her for my wife? Now then, here is your wife; take her, and go."
20 And Pharaoh gave men orders concerning him, and they sent him away with his wife and all that he had. ESV

Not only did Abraham lie here and encouraged Sarah to lie, they repeated this later. But in this instance God actually spoke and said He was protecting Sarah.

Genesis 20:1-18
1 From there Abraham journeyed toward the territory of the Negeb and lived between Kadesh and Shur; and he sojourned in Gerar.
2 And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, "She is my sister." And Abimelech king of Gerar sent and took Sarah.
3 But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night and said to him, "Behold, you are a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken, for she is a man's wife."
4 Now Abimelech had not approached her. So he said, "Lord, will you kill an innocent people?
5 Did he not himself say to me, 'She is my sister'? And she herself said, 'He is my brother.' In the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands I have done this."
6 Then God said to him in the dream, "Yes, I know that you have done this in the integrity of your heart, and it was I who kept you from sinning against me. Therefore I did not let you touch her.
7 Now then, return the man's wife, for he is a prophet, so that he will pray for you, and you shall live. But if you do not return her, know that you shall surely die, you, and all who are yours."
8 So Abimelech rose early in the morning and called all his servants and told them all these things. And the men were very much afraid.
9 Then Abimelech called Abraham and said to him, "What have you done to us? And how have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and my kingdom a great sin? You have done to me things that ought not to be done."
10 And Abimelech said to Abraham, "What did you see, that you did this thing?"
11 Abraham said, "I did it because I thought, There is no fear of God at all in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.
12 Besides, she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father though not the daughter of my mother, and she became my wife.
13 And when God caused me to wander from my father's house, I said to her, 'This is the kindness you must do me: at every place to which we come, say of me, He is my brother.'"
14 Then Abimelech took sheep and oxen, and male servants and female servants, and gave them to Abraham, and returned Sarah his wife to him.
15 And Abimelech said, "Behold, my land is before you; dwell where it pleases you."
16 To Sarah he said, "Behold, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver. It is a sign of your innocence in the eyes of all who are with you, and before everyone you are vindicated."
17 Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, and also healed his wife and female slaves so that they bore children.
18 For the Lord had closed all the wombs of the house of Abimelech because of Sarah, Abraham's wife. ESV

Finally Abraham and Sarah learn that God is protecting them and watching over them so that no harm would come to either of them. Lies where not necessary to protect Abraham because God was sufficient.

Is that not what we all need to learn? God will protect us and provide for us even when we feel all hope is lost?

Do you think God would not have protected Sarah if she didn’t tell her “little white lie”? After all she really was Abraham’s half-sister.

While they were blessed and protected despite their lies, they still sinned. Not only did they sin but their sin carried through to several generations. Just think of the lying that encompassed all of Abraham’s children!

• Isaac asked his wife Rebekah to lie in the same way his mother had. Genesis 26:6-11
  
• Isaac was lied to by Rebekah and Jacob. Genesis 27
  
• Jacob was lied to by his sons about Joseph. Genesis 37

Although God will still protect His own even when they fall into sin, the fruits of sin can be long lasting.

Abigail

The whole story is at 1 Samuel 25:1-42.

1 Samuel 25:2-8
2 And there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. The man was very rich; he had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats. He was shearing his sheep in Carmel.
3 Now the name of the man was Nabal, and the name of his wife Abigail. The woman was discerning and beautiful, but the man was harsh and badly behaved; he was a Calebite.
4 David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep.
5 So David sent ten young men. And David said to the young men, "Go up to Carmel, and go to Nabal and greet him in my name.
6 And thus you shall greet him: 'Peace be to you, and peace be to your house, and peace be to all that you have.
7 I hear that you have shearers. Now your shepherds have been with us, and we did them no harm, and they missed nothing all the time they were in Carmel.
8 Ask your young men, and they will tell you. Therefore let my young men find favor in your eyes, for we come on a feast day. Please give whatever you have at hand to your servants and to your son David.'" ESV

One of Nabel’s young men ran and told Abigail that David had asked for some food and Nabel had cursed David and refused. He warned her of the repercussions of scorning David.

Abigail gathered up lots of food and sent it ahead and then she traveled quickly to David to beg for forgiveness and mercy for her people. She appealed to him and reminded him that the Lord was with him and protecting David and His men. She begged David to not take vengeance for himself.

Abigail could have tried to hide her actions from Nabal but instead she told him despite what consequences her disobedience to him might have caused her. Because remember he was a “harsh and badly behaved” man. Nabal’s name meant – fool, stupid, dolt. I’m sure it was no easy task going against his will and then being brave enough to admit it to him. But the Lord protected her and provided greatly for her.

1 Samuel 25:36-39
36 And Abigail came to Nabal, and behold, he was holding a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. And Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk. So she told him nothing at all until the morning light.
37 In the morning, when the wine had gone out of Nabal, his wife told him these things, and his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.
38 And about ten days later the Lord struck Nabal, and he died.
39 When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, "Blessed be the Lord who has avenged the insult I received at the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from wrongdoing. The Lord has returned the evil of Nabal on his own head." Then David sent and spoke to Abigail, to take her as his wife. ESV

So while we as women are to be submissive to our husband’s we are not to ignore God’s Word and sin in the process.

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They Said WHAT !?!

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Ginsburg: I thought Roe was to rid undesirables

“Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of. So that Roe was going to be then set up for Medicaid funding for abortion. Which some people felt would risk coercing women into having abortions when they didn't really want them. But when the court decided McRae, the case came out the other way. And then I realized that my perception of it had been altogether wrong.”

John Holdren

Obama science czar Holdren called for forced abortions

“It has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing Constitution if the population crisis became sufficiently severe to endanger the society."

Quote from Ecoscience, by Paul and Anne Ehrlich and John Holden:

"The Christian concept of life in this world, as voiced by Saint Paul, that 'here we have no abiding city,' for example, conceivably could help explain why some people show rather little concern for the long-term future of the global environment or for the well-being of future generations" (p. 807).

John Holdren, Obama's Science Czar, says: Forced abortions and mass sterilization needed to save the planet (I know nothing about this website so use caution I only read this article.)

“Adding a sterilant to drinking water or staple foods is a suggestion that seems to horrify people more than most proposals for involuntary fertility control. Indeed, this would pose some very difficult political, legal, and social questions, to say nothing of the technical problems. No such sterilant exists today, nor does one appear to be under development. To be acceptable, such a substance would have to meet some rather stiff requirements: it must be uniformly effective, despite widely varying doses received by individuals, and despite varying degrees of fertility and sensitivity among individuals; it must be free of dangerous or unpleasant side effects; and it must have no effect on members of the opposite sex, children, old people, pets, or livestock.” (Ecoscience p. 787)

Wow! Even if I was crazy enough to think like that I would have enough wisdom not to tell others!

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What About a Single Woman?

With the discussion about wives and mothers a question was asked about single women and their place in Scripture.

That is a good question and below are several women that the Lord used to further His purposes. There are many more this is just a sampling. Some where later married and some were not.

~ The first that comes to mind is Miriam, Moses sister, evidence seems to be that she was unmarried. It would make sense because just think all the male children were being killed by Pharaoh. Miriam served the Lord and praised the Lord. Exodus 2, Exodus 15:20

~ Rahab, was a harlot in Jericho, whom the Lord used to aid the Israelites. She later was blessed to marry and have a child who was in the linage of Christ. Joshua 2, Joshua 6

~ Next I think of Ruth, who although a widow and childless, served the Lord by serving and caring for her widowed and depressed MIL Naomi, but the Lord blessed Ruth to later be married and to have a child who was in the linage of Jesus. Book of Ruth

Let’s jump to the NT.

~ Anna, at the temple, she was a long time widow that served the God in the Temple. She was quite revered by God by being allowed to see the Baby Jesus and know Him for who He truly was. Luke 2:36

~ Mary Magdalene was saved from a sinful life and she devoted herself to serving the Lord during His life here on earth. We do not know beyond that if she ever married or not. Matthew 27:55

~ Lydia, the seller of purple cloth, has no mention of a husband but she used her wealth in her business for aiding the missionaries and serving the Lord. Acts 16:14

~ There was also Mary and Martha that since they lived with their brother Lazarus would indicate at least then, they were not married yet they served the Lord and provide a place of peace and rest for Him. Luke 10: 38

~ Tabitha was raised from the dead so that she could continue to serve the Lord by caring for the widows. Acts 9:36

~ Many, many times there is the mention of a woman’s name in the Apostles’ letters to the church. Read through them and see. Some may have had unbelieving husbands but probably only a few because an unbelieving husband would have hindered the wife’s serving of the Lord. The only husband and wife team I can think of is Aquila and Priscilla who are mentioned many times. Acts 18:2

So be encouraged that because you are not married does not make you a second-class citizen in God’s Book. He may or may not decide to bring you a husband but no matter what, serve the Lord with all your heart and He will direct your paths. You are in a sense freer than a wife is or mother would be to serve the Lord.

1 Corinthians 7:34 And the unmarried or betrothed woman is anxious about the things of the Lord, how to be holy in body and spirit. But the married woman is anxious about worldly things, how to please her husband. ESV

Proverbs 29:13 The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother. ESV

So serve the Lord with all your heart undivided by a husband or children until the Lord shows you His will in this area.

Whether or not you should marry or even have children is dependant on the Lord's will. All He does is in order to bring Glory to Himself and to conform you to His image. If He has not blessed you with a husband or children you can be sure that it is in your own best interest for the time being.

Romans 8:28 And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose. ESV

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Gaining the World and Losing Your Children

We as parents must often reevaluate our purpose in life.

What is your purpose?

What is your purpose in raising your children?

My purpose is to Glorify God in all I do, albeit I fail mightily at times.

1 Corinthians 10:31 So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. ESV

Romans 15:5-6
5 May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus,
6 that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. ESV

1 Corinthians 6:19-20
19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,
20 for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body. ESV

Revelation 15:4 Who will not fear, O Lord, and glorify your name? For you alone are holy. All nations will come and worship you, for your righteous acts have been revealed." ESV

My purpose for raising my children is for the same reason to Glorify God. I am striving to raise them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord in order to Glorify God in what I do and so that they will Glorify God in all they do.

Deuteronomy 6:5-7
5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
6 And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart.
7 You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. ESV

Paul Washer discusses parenting specifically for Fathers although it is very helpful for mothers also. He covers quality time verses quantity time.

One statement he makes is so true - If sports builds character what about the NFL or the NBA?

How many parents focus on their child and sports and yet they forget the really important thing?

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Biblical Womenhood - Voddie Baucham

Below are several short audio clips of Voddie Baucham speaking about Biblical womenhood. Sorry that I could not find a full audio clip of this sermon.

Biblical Womanhood, Part 1 of 8



Biblical Womanhood, Part 2 of 8



Biblical Womanhood, Part 3 of 8



Biblical Womanhood, Part 4 of 8



Biblical Womanhood, Part 5 of 8



Biblical Womanhood, Part 6 of 8



Biblical Womanhood, Part 7 of 8



Biblical Womanhood, Part 8 of 8

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That the Word of God be not Blasphemed

Titus 2:1-6
1 But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine:
2 That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.
3 The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;
4 That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,
5 To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
6 Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded. KJV

Why is it in Titus 2:1-5 there are instructions for the older men, older women, young women and the young men but only the young women are warned specifically about their behavior blaspheming God?

Did anyone else notice that?

After reading and pondering that for a while I’ve determined that it is because the young women are in an area of more influence than any of the others. Young women are training the future generations and their teaching might last for three to four generations whether it is good or bad. Then guess what, the young women very quickly become older women responsible for teaching other young women. It is a very important cycle according to God's Word.

Numbers 14:18 'The Lord is slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, to the third and the fourth generation.' ESV

Deuteronomy 5:9-10
9 You shall not bow down to them or serve them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,
10 but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments. ESV

Our disobedience does not only affect our generation of children but the third and fourth generations of our children. But our obedience may affect thousands or thousands of generations.

So is the price of disobedience worth it?

John MacArthur

After spending the majority of his sermon discussing Feminism and its effects on women and society in general, MacArthur points out that feminism, homosexuality, and family breakdown is leading us to Romans 1:18-32 yet the church is going right along with it. Notice this sermon was done in 1997! Just add 12 more years to the equation.

"The Character of a Healthy Church" Part 3 Younger Women Part 1 Titus 2:4-5

Undiscerning Christians falling victim to these hellish heresies, the destruction is not restrained by the church, the church has joined it.

There is no doubt about what a woman's role is, there's no doubt what a man's role is. Look at our text again. What has God designed for a woman? Verse 4, "To love their husbands, to love their children, to be sensible, pure, workers at home, kind, being subject to their own husbands that the Word of God may not be dishonored." That's very clear.

You can get in a lot of trouble by suggesting that kind of stuff. Try standing up in this culture and saying, "Women, you're commanded to love your husband and to love your children and to work at home and to be subject to your husband." You'll get screamed down. I mean, you can be in deep trouble just reading that let alone commenting on it.

It's been amazing since people knew I was approaching this text, they've been telling me, "What are you going to say about this? This is going to be very controversial. Boy, we can't wait till these tapes come out. What's going to happen then?" Well just to mitigate that a little bit, I've said what I've said, this morning, so that if you get upset you know whose side you're on. (Applause) God has laid out His standards. They're not negotiable. And I'll tell you this, if the church doesn't wake up soon and obey the Word of God, all is lost. We don't need to fall victim to this stuff. You don't need a Master's Degree to figure out what it means to love your husband, love your children, and work at home. How hard is that? By the way, there are no qualifiers there, no caveats, no footnotes. It's just what it says. Go home, submit to your husband, have children, raise them in godliness, take care of your house. And that's what older women are to teach younger women, they're to teach it not only with their mouth, they're to teach it with their life.

I'm telling you, what I said a few weeks ago now is becoming so vividly true. We are living in Romans 1, aren't we? What's wrong with America? God's wrath is wrong with America. God's let us go and we're plunging down the path and the evidence of it is this reversal of sexual roles that Paul talked about in Romans chapter 1 verse 26.

Macarthur © 1997 Grace to You http://www.biblebb.com/files/MAC/56-14.HTM or http://www.gty.org/Resources/Sermons/56-14

"The Character of a Healthy Church" Part 4 Titus 2:3-5 by John MacArthur

In our culture what is being said in these verses to young women is the very opposite of what young women are being taught. Young women today are being taught to love whoever they want, farm their children out to somebody else, don't worry about being sensible, do whatever pleases you. Don't worry about being pure, fulfill your physical and lustful desires. Don't work at home, work outside the home. Don't worry about being kind, you do whatever you want. You grab your moment in the sun. Take care of you, not somebody else. And by all means, don't be subject to your own husband.

When this comes into the church it therefore dishonors the Word of God. I mean, even an unbeliever can read those verses. The most unschooled non-believer can read that the Word of God says young women are to love their husbands, love their children, be sensible, pure, workers at home, kind, and subject to their own husbands. And if he can read the Bible and look at the church, he can make a very simple conclusion...you Christians say you believe the Bible, why don't your women live like this? You see, it brings discredit on the Scripture to say we affirm the Scripture but we live however we like. Or worse, we live however the culture being basically controlled by Satan, the prince of the power of the air, dictates us to live.

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But young women have always needed instruction, just like young men and older women and older men do. And so here the Word of God is at stake...the honor of the Scripture and the glory of God and the silencing of the opponents of the gospel. In other words, this simple set of commands has immense implications, has far-reaching ramifications for the Kingdom. If you love Christ, if you seek to honor God, if you want to lift up and exalt the Word, if you want to silence the critics, you will be eager to obey these commands. If you want to do what the society says, if you want to fulfill your own fleshly desire, you will disobey them. Jesus said it simply and concisely in the summary statement, "If you love Me, you will keep My commandments." And here are some of His commandments given to us by the Holy Spirit through the pen of the Apostle Paul.

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And then he says, "Workers at home." And here's the one that gets all the heat nowadays because women don't want to work at home. Frankly, they're not at all interested in working at home if they can help it. Forty-five percent of the American work force is women. Megatrends 2000 says in the past 20 years US women have taken two-thirds of the millions of new jobs and that will continue. By the way, that directly contributes to continued male unemployment in the inner city, according to Harvard University report done by a man named Harris because people will hire a woman before they'll hire a male black, sometimes even a Hispanic black male, a Hispanic male rather, or a black male. And so what happens is two our three new jobs are taken by women because they'd rather deal with women than men and that contributes to a rise in unemployment of the men. Fifty-six percent, says Megatrends, fifty-six percent of mothers with children under six work outside the home. Seventy-three percent of mothers with children six to 17 work outside the home. By the year 2000, that's in six years or so, seven years, ninety percent of women between 16 and 65 will be at work outside the home. Nobody will be home...nobody.

Women don't want to be workers at home. Why? Because Satan sells the system on that. Why? Because it's anti-God, anti-Christ, anti-Bible and it devastates the testimony of the church. The word "workers at home," one word in the Greek, oikourgos, from two root words, ergon, which means work, and oikos which means house. It's simply the sphere of a woman's life is her home, that's her domain. It doesn't mean she has to be there 24 hours a day and can never leave. What...I'm not saying that because you don't want to lock her up with soap operas either, but what it does mean is that is the sphere of her life. That is her domain. It is not that she is simply to be home, but that the home is her sphere. The woman in Proverbs 31 left home when she needed to to buy a field, she left home to prepare that field, she left home and went afar to find things that would help the family. The woman did what she needed to do but the focus of everything was the home. And that's where she poured her life and she got up early and she went to bed late for the sake of the home. She is to be a home keeper, that's the sphere of her responsibility, that's her place of employment, that's where she should pour her life. For a mother to get a job outside the home and send the children to some kind of daycare place is to shirk her God-given responsibility. It also is failure to understand that her husband is to be the provider, as Ephesians 5 makes very clear. Even if you wanted to work outside the home to pay for your children to go to a Christian school, you made a big mistake. Better that you should stay in the home and raise your own children to be godly then to pass it on to somebody else.

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Why do they [feminist] care? You tell me, why does some feminist woman care whether you're a homemaker? Why does she care? I'll tell you why, because her agenda isn't her agenda. It's the agenda of the enemy, it is an anti-God agenda intended to destroy the credibility of the church because if you can get women who claim to be Christians to abandon the home, then you can pick up a Bible and stick it in their face and say, "You say you believe this? I don't think so. And therefore it must not be believable because you know what it says and you're not interested in believing it and you claim to be a Christian." The agenda is...they don't care...they don't know what they're doing but they don't care really whether you work, Satan cares to discredit the Bible, that's the issue. That's the level of the attack. See it for what it is and don't become victimized.

John MacArthur © 1997 Grace to You http://www.biblebb.com/files/MAC/56-15.HTM or http://www.gty.org/Resources/Sermons/56-15

Did you notice how feminism is encouraging women to blaspheme God’s Word?

It's the agenda of the enemy, it is an anti-God agenda intended to destroy the credibility of the church because if you can get women who claim to be Christians to abandon the home, then you can pick up a Bible and stick it in their face and say, "You say you believe this? I don't think so. And therefore it must not be believable because you know what it says and you're not interested in believing it and you claim to be a Christian."

See also:

Why Do We Focus on the Exceptions?

Wives – Keepers at Home or Blaspheming God’s Word

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Wives – Keepers at Home or Blaspheming God’s Word

Now you can get jumping up and down mad about the title or you can read God's Word for yourself. But no matter what be sure to read Why Do We Focus on the Exceptions? if you are busy making excuses for why your situation is different. But also notice that nothing says a woman cannot make money from her home, just that she should be working at home. Her focus should be glorifying the Lord through her home.

Titus 2:3-5
3 Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good,
4 and so train the young women to love their husbands and children,
5 to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled. ESV

Women often get caught up with the words “working at home” and "submissive" but we breeze right over the phrase “that the word of God may not be reviled.”

Let’s see what that means.

Titus 2:5 "... that the word of God be not blasphemed." KJV

Titus 2:5 "…so that no one will malign the word of God." NIV


Titus 2:5 "… that the word of God may not be exposed to reproach (blasphemed or discredited)." AMP

Guess what the actual Greek word is?

‎blasphemeo

Not too hard for even a novice to figure out what that means, is it?

How do we blaspheme God’s Word?

2 Peter 2:2 And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of truth will be blasphemed. ESV

Several times in the Bible the word “blasphemo” has also been translated as “speak evil of”.

Titus 3:1-2
1 Remind them to be submissive to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,
2 to speak evil of no one, to avoid quarreling, to be gentle, and to show perfect courtesy toward all people. ESV


When we ignore God’s Word we are speaking evil of it by not taking it seriously. We also cause others to speak evil of God’s Word because they see us as hypocrites. Christians tell unbelievers they should obey God but yet we don’t do the same, we pick and choose what we want to obey.

A similar verse to Titus 2:5 is 1 Timothy 5:14 So I would have younger widows marry, bear children, manage their households, and give the adversary no occasion for slander. ESV

Notice both verses (Titus 2:5; 1 Timothy 5:14) include caring for children and working at home as the prerequisite to women not blaspheming or slandering God’s Word.


You think that it just might be important ?


For futher study read:

Women Against Public Blasphemy from The Council on Biblical Manhood and Womenhood

Jennie Chancey Responds to Titus 2 Cynics

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Why Do We Focus on the Exceptions?

What does it say about us when we focus more on the exceptions than on Biblical principles?

We in America always think we are the exception to the rule. Our public schools aren’t as bad as everyone else’s. Our children are doing better than others, they are not suffering from daycare. Our families are not suffering from the wife working outside the home. No one ever understands how hard we have things, etc.

~ If you were to ever contend, that the Biblical ideal is for women to be “workers at home” (Titus 2:3-5) then of course someone will point out Deborah (Judges 4:4 and following) as an excuse for working outside the home.

Or maybe the husband that won’t work?

The disabled husband?

But never will they focus on the fact that the majority of working women are not working to put food on the table but for the luxuries of extra income.

How many marriages with both spouses working are living off of spam and macaroni and cheese meals?

How many dual income families have one car that is 15 plus years old and on its last wheel?

How many dual income families have so few clothes that they must wash by hand their clothes for the next day’s work?

Most dual working families are not poverty stricken in any way they are just not living up to the standard of living they desire.

Many working women spend more money on makeup and hair care products than the truly impoverished spend on food.

How many dual income families have four or five children per room?

~ If you point out that women are to be subject or submissive to our husbands (Colossians 3:18) then someone will question what about the husband that wants his wife to sin?

Just how many husbands require a wife to participate in sinful activities?

Just how many husbands really expect a wife to commit crimes, use drugs, etc.?

Is what you are deeming sin truly a sin according to Scripture?

Example: Many non-believing husbands may not want their wives to spend large portions of time at church. But how much time at church is demanded by the Lord? Is three services a week? Why might he complain about church attendance? Is it because meals aren’t prepared? Chores get behind? How might a husband’s needs be met while still allowing for “assembling with believers”? In Hebrews 10:25, notice there is no requirement as to how often. While regular gathering with other believers is important for a Christian the frequency is not specified.

What if your husband demands you must work?

This is a broad area that is worthy of fuller discussion but the general principles are first to determine why a husband requires a wife to work. If the husband is a believer then a wife has the Scripture and lots of resources available to appeal to the husband. Even if an unbeliever often they can be shown how it is actually cheaper for a wife to not work outside of the home. Taxes, car expenses, day care, clothing, and other fees will often eat up what little salary many women make. This doesn’t take into account the intangible and more vague costs of sick children due to daycare, takeout meals, expensive instant meals and using more outside services. Is the husband’s complaint related to the wife spending too much money? There is nothing wrong with a women working from the home if an income is what a husband expects.

~ If you point out that children should obey their parents then someone will question what if the child is a believer and the parents want them to sin?

Here in the USA there are very few instances where a Muslim child becomes a believer and is required to reject Jesus by the family. (Although with the increase in Muslim worshipers, this will increase here also.)

If a child is made by parents to do something sinful there is always the opportunity to involve another Christian believer for counsel or if illegal even the law.

The most important issues are these:

Does the possibility of an exception make it acceptable for us to ignore a Biblical principle?

Have you spent as much time in praying for God’s Wisdom, as in making excuses that your situation is the exception?

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