a woman should learn in quietness and full submission. i do not permit a woman to teach or have authority over a man; she must be silent. for adam was formed first, then eve. and adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner. but women will be saved through childbearing- if they continue in faith, love and ( Read more... )

ok here's the deal. life sucks. i should be married. i'm getting amazingly frustrated with the whole situation...and it's got nothing to do with my parents being ridiculous. the problem is that i'm in love. that's it. i'm in love. and it's tearing us apart. at this point in our relationship, there is spiritual, emotional and mental intimacy ( Read more... )

unbelievers say 'take your cowboy god and go home' and we get angry and say 'they're vile heathen.' no they're not vile heathen- or at least that's not why they say that. they can't respect our 'cowboy god.' and since evangelism has gone overboard to 'cowboy religion' its conception of God is unworthy of Him. our religion is little because our ( Read more... )

when a distinction is made between God's revealed will and His secret will, or His will of command and decree, 'will' is certainly in that distinction taken in two senses. His will of decree, is not His will in the same sense as His will of command is. therefore, it is not difficulty at all to suppose, that the one may be otherwise than the other ( Read more... )

the old joke about men never asking for directions isn't really a joke. your man really does interpret your desire that he stop and ask for directions as distrust. it implies that he is not capable of finding the way himself, that he is incompentent...ultimately that he is not trustworthy. little things add up. we women know this- how the ( Read more... )

John Gottman, a professor of psychology at the University of Washington, writes in his book 'Why Marriages Succeed or Fail', he writes "most couples I've worked with over the years, really wanted just two things from their marriage - love and respect". This after spending twenty years studying 2000 couples. this principle is Biblical. in ( Read more... )

i just wanted to post this. i apologize in advance for all the scientific jargon ( Read more... )

liturgical prayer helps us avoid the familiarity that breeds contempt. the intimacy of prayer must be always counterbalanced by the infinite distance of creature to Creator. in the Bible it is common for those who encounter God to fall on their face as though dead. the stateliness and formality of the liturgy helps us to realize that we are in ( Read more... )

there is something about putting your mouth on another human mouth, entwining fingers, exchanging vows of love, and living day in and day out in the presence of another person that is at once a denial and an affirmation of death. there is something radically insurrectionist about it, yet also something acquiescent. there is a sense of the two of ( Read more... )

so i've got some more pictures for you...=)  kate and ashley (and help from emily) took some awesome pictures of nathan and i.  thanks girls!  you did a wonderful job!


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