There’s a lot of great stuff here that you’ll want to make use of. I downloaded quite a bit last night and started listening to Bruce Ware’s lecture “Feminist Revisions of the Doctrine of God.” It is facinating to me how both complementarians and egalitarians are charging each other with revising the doctrine of the Trinity—and heretically so—to fit their preconceived view of gender roles.
Pastors are interested in how much other pastors make. Our recent post “How Much Do Pastors Make?” has been one of our highest trafficked articles this month. Perhaps, then, many of our readers will be interested to know that female pastors average 10.4% higher total compensation than male pastors.
Your Church, a part of the Christianity Today family, conducted a national survey in early 2007 involving 5,750 people in 13 different church positions. The survey dealt with total compensation, factoring in “housing allowance/parsonage, retirement, life insurance, health insurance, and continuing education.”
In a signal they may be ready to approve historic changes for female ministers, delegates to the Christian Reformed Church Synod on Saturday elected a president who favors full clergy rights for women.
The Rev. Joel Boot of Jenison, Mich., said he hopes this week’s Synod removes all restrictions from female clergy. Women are allowed to serve as ministers in some churches but not to serve as delegates at Synod, the CRC ruling body.
“I hope and pray the occasion of our 150th anniversary will be the time we courageously step forward and say, `It’s time to settle it. Now we’re going to move into the future together and concentrate on the mission of the church,”‘ Boot said as the Synod opened on Saturday.
GodMen targets men who are disinterested in traditional church services, where only four out of ten attenders are men. The problem is that most churches do not allow men to be men. They are too feminine, too sissy. The Christian Post has the story.
A new men’s movement is burgeoning into the Christian scene, picking up men bored in the pews and toughening them up with the other side of Jesus’ image—the table-tipping side.
“Men are a punchline in America,” said comedian Brad Stine, founder of GodMen, on ABC News. “Anything that’s masculine is considered misogynistic, suspect, trying to be oppressive. We’re none of those things.”
GodMen brings hundreds of Christian men together to do “guy stuff,” things they normally would not do in the churches. They watch professional sports screw-ups and witness a man bend a metal wrench with his bare hands. But the integral part of the movement is the raw talks, including discussions on pornography addiction.
“The biggest thing we’re trying to give them is absolute authenticity and honesty,” said Stine, who has hosted two conferences so far in Franklin, Tenn. “You get to be real and raw. We’re flawed, we’re messed up, we’re not perfect . . . we are on a journey but we screw up every single day.”
Researchers have observed chimpanzees making weapons out of sticks and killing their prey with them—something thought to be done only by humans. Evolution must be true after all.
Chimpanzees living in the West African savannah have been observed fashioning deadly spears from sticks and using the tools to hunt small mammals — the first routine production of deadly weapons ever observed in animals other than humans.
The multistep spearmaking practice, documented by researchers in Senegal who spent years gaining the chimpanzees’ trust, adds credence to the idea that human forebears fashioned similar tools millions of years ago.
Let’s just hope they don’t start making guns and nuclear weapons, or we might really be in trouble!
This same research also demonstrates the superiority of the female gender—especially as thinkers. Feminism must be true after all.
The landmark observation also supports the long-debated proposition that females — the main makers and users of spears among the Senegalese chimps — tend to be the innovators and creative problem solvers in primate culture.
If this news spreads far enough, Hillary is a shoo-in for President.
Jesus Christ’s pre-incarnate existence and identity is clearly revealed to be that of the eternal Son of the Father.
Jesus came as the Second Adam, the Man who stands as Head over his new and redeemed race.
The Abrahamic covenant requires that the Savior who would come, as the promised descendant of Abraham, would be a man.
The Davidic covenant (2 Samuel 7) explicitly requires that the One who will reign forever on the throne of David be a Son of David, and hence a man.
The new covenant of Jeremiah 31:31-34 requires that the Savior who comes will actually accomplish the forgiveness of sins it promises, and to do this, the Savior must be a man.
The Savior who would come must come as prophet like unto Moses, as predicted by Moses and fulfilled in Jesus Christ, and so he must be a man.
Our new and permanent High Priest, whose office is secured as sins are atoned for and full pardon is pleaded on our behalf before the Father, must be a man.
Christ came also as the glorious King of Kings, reigning over the nations in splendor and righteousness, and to be this King, he must be a man.
The incarnate mission and ministry of Jesus required that he come as a man.
Because the risen Christ is now presented to the Church, not only as her Lord and King, but also as her Bridegroom, the Savior to come must have been a man.
Because our Savior came as the “Son of God” it is necessary that he come as a man.
Because our Savior came as the “Son of Man” it is necessary that he come as a man.
While I agree with Ware’s conclusion, I don’t find all of his arguments convincing. E.g., his objections to the TNIV’s translation of Heb 2:17 seem weak and, in my view, indicate an over-literal reading of the phrase “in every way.” Yet I commend this helpful article on an interesting topic.
Read the whole article (it’s a long one!) at Resurgence.
The Council on Biblical Manhood & Womanhood (CBMW) has launched a new website, which has a host of free resources available. These include articles, journal articles, book reviews, sermons, conference audio, and online books. They also have a new Gender blog, to which you can subscribe.
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Researchers have observed chimpanzees making weapons out of sticks and killing their prey with them—something thought to be done only by humans. Evolution must be true after all.
