10 Reasons Why the New NIV is Bad for Women
As a woman, I react to the new, gender-inclusive NIV Bible the way I react to nails scratching down a chalk board. Here are 10 reasons why the new NIV is bad for women.
Category: Disciplines
Attack of the Evil Earworm
I’ve got an earworm. And I’ve got it bad. A couple of phrases from the song, “Addicted to your Love” by the Black Eyed Peas are ricocheting around my head like a dollar-store bouncy ball. “Addicted to your love. —And I just can’t get enough! I’m addicted to your love!” The earworm keeps burrowing and [...]
The Truth According to Katy Perry
Katy Perry’s latest song, Firework, is highly relatable, especially to us women. What woman hasn’t felt one time or another like she was drifting through life or struggling to hold it all together? Yes. Katy Perry struck a chord with all of us women, but her solution to our problem leaves us wanting. Does Katy Perry’s truth cause a firework or a fizzle?
Book Blog 5: Tied to the Kitchen Sink?
“Barefoot, pregnant, and tied to the kitchen sink” is a popular phrase that depicts the sorry state of the traditional housewife. Feminism liberated women from these supposed “shackles” and encouraged us to get out of the house. But the Bible says that constantly being “out and about” is a mark of a Girl Gone Wild…”her [...]
Book Blog 2: Deadened by the Drip
Popular mass media perpetually drips messages about gender, sex and relationships into our minds. The trouble is, it often promotes false or counterfeit images of what womanhood is all about. In this Girls Gone Wise video book blog, I challenge you to examine whether your mind is being deadened by that constant drip drip drip. [...]
Getting Rid of the Garbage
Taking out the trash has never been so complicated. I have four garbage containers in my kitchen. Yes, four: a blue one for paper, a green one for glass and plastic, a biodegradable brown-bag-lined one for kitchen slop (food scraps), and an ominous big black bin for “evil” non-recyclables. Oh – and a couple more [...]
Wise vs. Wild Contrast #5: Habits
The Girl-Gone-Wise recognizes the importance of daily habits. She orders her ways and lives a self-disciplined, rather than self-indulgent life. She keeps an eye on the home front, and diligently works to make sure all is in order there. She always tries to put first things first. And she prospers as a result.
The Hows and Whys of Fasting
Did you know that Jesus expected his disciples to fast after He left? Fasting is a basic spiritual discipline for all Christians. Here are some notes from a workshop on the Hows and Whys of Fasting I presented a a Prayer and Evangelism Conference this past weekend.
Wise vs. Wild Contrast #2: Counsel
Imagine this. Say I wanted to do an experiment to determine the effects of popular culture on a girl’s ideas about womanhood and male-female relationships. So I lock her up in a lab and expose her to mass media every waking moment of every day for 7 months. What do you think would happen? How do you think it would affect her?
Time to Grow!
I drove to my childhood home a few weeks ago. What memories are stored there. One of them being the very live, very icky birth of baby calves. You see, my home was right across the street from an over-eaten cow pasture and my dear mom felt that every live birth was something to celebrate. [...]
HOT OFF THE PRESS!
A NEW Bible Study by Mary Kassian: “Knowing God by Name – A Personal Encounter” God knows your name. Do you know HIS? God is too big, too magnificent for a single name. Consider this: the God whose many names include Creator, Provider, Ruler, and Redeemer wants you to know Him more intimately. Mary Kassian’s [...]
