This blog is for dialogue on the issue of women in ministry and the freedom for women to teach the bible in a public setting. It is also for questions and answers on our DVD entitled “Women in Ministry: Silenced or Set Free?” This 4 DVD set answers the hard passages of scripture that seem to restrict women’s ministry.
Posted in Answering complementarian arguments, Handling Opposition, Opposing viewpoints, Spiritual gifts, Women serving in the church on Jan 25th, 2010
One of the first objections to women in ministry is the fact that Jesus chose only males as his twelve apostles. If Jesus only chose men for this special “class” of people who were to be His witnesses of the resurrection, then didn’t Jesus show by this act that He does not allow women to [...]
Posted in 1 Corinthians 14, Spiritual gifts, Women serving in the church on Jan 25th, 2010
The bride of Christ has been given gifts but are teacher and pastor two gifts or one?
God has given many gifts to the church and the main purpose of the gifts is to edify the body of Christ so that God will ultimately be glorified. Paul makes it clear in 1 Corinthians 14:12 that we [...]
Posted in News on Jan 23rd, 2010
The following article was sent to me this morning by Mabel, a follower of this blog. The pastor of the church that had its charity status removed in Canada also contacted our ministry as we went through the same kind of persecution from the CRA (Canada Revenue Agency) regarding their disallowing as “charitable” the work [...]
Posted in Book endorsements, Spiritual Abuse on Jan 19th, 2010
Last year I blogged about Dr. Barb Orlowski’s research on spiritual abuse. Barb contacted me during a time when I was going through a very difficult period in my own life and she was very helpful to me in both her active listening and in her own decision to contact the District church leaders that [...]
Posted in Blogs by others, Personal updates, Women Pastors on Jan 19th, 2010
I have been notified that my Women in Ministry blog has been picked as one of the top 55 pastor bloggers on the online Christian Colleges web site here. My blog is listed up women pastors. Also my blog has been picked up as a bibiloblog by biblioblogtop50.wordpress.com and this biblio blog site. It is [...]
Posted in Personal on Jan 12th, 2010
I have a great concern tonight for my Pastor. Pastor Jim Reimer and two of our worship team along with a group of teens from our local high school flew into Haiti around noon today. They were intending a two week ministry trip. The devastating earthquake struck Haiti around 5 pm.
We are praying for pastor [...]
Posted in 1 Timothy 2 on Jan 11th, 2010
Paul’s use of “I am not allowing” in 1 Timothy 2:12 has caused a lot of speculation regarding his reasons for disallowing certain activities. In this post we are going to look at this phrase very carefully.
The first thing that we can note is that Paul is not appealing to an existing law. Paul does [...]
Women In Ministry
This blog is for dialogue on the issue of women in ministry and the freedom for women to teach the bible in a public setting. It is also for questions and answers on our DVD entitled “Women in Ministry: Silenced or Set Free?” This 4 DVD set answers the hard passages of scripture that seem to restrict women’s ministry.
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