Zipporah Remember, the midwives rebelled. Moses’ mom obeyed. Zipporah was a very different kind of woman. Zipporah means ‘bird’ but she is anything but flighty. She is one of the seven daughters of the Priest of Midian who married Moses after h…
Jochabed Moses’ mother Jochabed is special, a heroic woman of faith who is a great portrait of a woman who did not follow in Eve’s sandals. She gave up her illusions of control and security. Exodus 2:1 Now a man of the house of Levi married a Levi…
Shiprah and Puah We have looked at Eve. Today we will take a look at two of the women of Exodus, the Hebrew midwives Shiprah and Puah. If there is any doubt of the high view of the Bible toward women, this should begin to alter that narrative. Whi…
Matriarch Eve Remember, the ideal Biblical woman radiates Radical Super-human Faith in the Lord Willingness to give up illusions of control and security Willingness to prioritize others Willingness through labor to bring ‘life’ to community …
How can modern Christian woman dance? The many gains made by you in our culture in the last 50 years haven’t lifted you up into the dance you were created for—which down deep you long for. Instead of a dance, a better metaphor would be a fashio…
How can modern Christian woman dance? The many gains made by you in our culture in the last 50 years haven’t lifted you up into the dance you were created for—which down deep you long for. Instead of a dance, a better metaphor would be a fashio…
I want to say one more thing about the Biblical ideal for womanhood. You are to be known for your growing desire to submit to and for others. I know that sounds crazy. Who would want to submit to others? Answer? God. The LORD is exalted over all t…
One of our historic problems is that our translation of hupetasso (submit) has huge negative connotations. We need to wrestle with this—for it is the necessary fruit of the Spirit filling both men and women. The Spirit of Christ is a submitting Sp…
OK, before we go on, we have to deal with the ugly Elephant in the room: submission. Eph 5:21 Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. It sounds good on paper. But let’s face it, neither man or woman want to submit to anybody else. I don…
So woman, please do not hear me say that you haven’t been doing it right or you just need to try harder to be an ideal Biblical woman. Don’t do it. How’s that gone for you anyway? Ideal biblical womanhood, like ideal biblical manhood, is the produc…
So, we are looking at what makes an ideal woman in the Bible. We have to cut through so much of the garbage that seeps in from our own culture. Though many strides forward have been made, we unfortunately remain patriarchal. The Bible has also been…
Biblically, what is the ideal woman—or what are aspects of ideal womanhood? Is it physical beauty? Beauty is very culturally specific and subject to vast international media marketing. In parts of Myanmar and Thailand, the longer the neck, the mo…