After a long, difficult day at the office, Bill comes home to a house filled with boisterous children and a really pooped wife. By long and difficult I mean that Bill’s job, in the normal state of affairs, takes 90 minutes to get to. But today, there was an accident on the way home that […]
A few months ago, someone sent me a link to this article and asked me what I thought. This is my response. There were a couple of good things and one or two Biblically accurate things in this article. They mentioned that sin started in the Garden that sin is sinful and most important for […]
This post is the continuation of this, this, and this. I thought it might be helpful to give a more direct and detailed study of 1 Peter 3:1-6. This is part four. Answering some questions that some might be thinking. Questions and Answers that might have arisen from this post: Q: You said, “submit means obey.” Does this mean […]
This post is the continuation of this and this. I thought it might be helpful to give a more direct and detailed study of 1 Peter 3:1-6. This is part three. Before we get to the nuts and bolts of what a wife is supposed to do, let’s talk for a moment about who is […]
This post is the continuation of this first post. I thought it might be helpful to give a more direct and detailed study of 1 Peter 3:1-6. This is part two. Peter then moves on to give a few examples of areas of life where this witness might be exhibited: regular citizens with human […]
1 Peter 3:1-6 Does it have anything to do with Us? In response to a blog post I wrote a month or so ago, several people commented that I had twisted Scripture when I applied 1 Peter 3:1-6 to a wife who was living with a husband who was very much less than loving toward […]
Hi Sally, Here’s what I think. Four things spring to mind: First, stop thinking about, fretting about, and wringing your hands about George and how he is or isn’t doing. Stop reading your Bible with George in mind. Stop thinking, “Hey, there’s another verse George isn’t doing.” Or, “There’s another verse George is falling short […]
Dear Mable, You asked what a godly wife looks like, so here goes. First, in order to talk about a godly wife, we need to talk about what godly means. Of course, a wife is someone who is married to a husband. That part is easy. But godly, now there’s the rub. What does godly […]
Pastor Lawyer, Are you saying that a wife should just “grin and bear it”? That she should just take what he’s giving, put her head down and submit to his sinful treatment? The Bible says that when someone sins against us we are to go to them and tell them about it (Mt. 18:15). Then […]
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