Results tagged “women”
False Messages III: Desiring Him (11/11/09 - 18 Comments)
This is now the third (and final!) entry in this short series written by my wife, Aileen. In the last article she talked about rejection and how it effects both wives and husbands. The day before that she dealt with sexual desire, pointing out some of the differences between men and women. Today the series concludes. One thing I want to say. In this series she has been dealing predominantly with "average" marriages. It is...
False Messages II: The Heart of Rejection (11/10/09 - 23 Comments)
This short series, guest authored by my wife Aileen, began yesterday with False Messages I: What He Really Wants. Today Aileen picks up where she left off. ***** by Aileen Challies When you thought about getting married and when you anticipated having sex with your husband, did you ever think about how often you'd be saying "no" to him? I know of a few women who decided before they married that they would never refuse...
False Messages I: What He Really Wants (11/09/09 - 42 Comments)
For the next couple of days there will be a guest blogger on this site--none other than my wife, Aileen. She will be sharing a few articles directed specifically at women. Here is how this came about. Two weeks ago (yes, it was really that long ago) I posted a series called Sexual Detox. One of the unexpected results of the series was a large number of emails from women who read this blog. I...
True Woman (VII) (10/11/08 - 20 Comments)
Here is the liveblog from the last of the True Woman sessions. Immediately after this wrapped up, I hopped a cab and went to the airport. There were several hours before my flight, but I thought I'd find a place to hole up and get some work done. Well...it turns out there was an earlier flight as well and I just had time to get to it. So it worked out well and I got...
True Woman (VI) (10/10/08 - 1 Comments)
We're going to keep with the CoverItLive format for this evening's sessions. Feel free to read along and join in the fun, beginning at 6:30 PM CST....
True Woman (V) (10/10/08 - 6 Comments)
This morning, just for one session, I'm going to try something different. This is a piece of software called CoverItLive and its made specifically for live-blogging. I thought I'd give it a shot....
True Woman Conference (IV) (10/09/08 - 16 Comments)
After John Piper finished his session, a "True Woman Profile" played on the screen. It was the story of one of the women at the conference and told of her conversion to Christ in prison. This was followed by the Getty's singing "The Power of the Cross" and "When I Survey." And then it was Nancy Leigh DeMoss' turn to speak and she took as her text Romans 11:33-36. "Oh, the depth of the riches...
True Woman Conference (III) (10/09/08 - 4 Comments)
The first session of the True Woman Conference was led by John Piper who spoke on "The Meaning of True Womanhood." He made it clear that he counts it a privilege to address the most influential people in the world (distinguishing, he said, between privilege and authority). There is massive power in this room and he does not take this as a light responsibility. This message is offered as a foundation for the True Woman...
True Woman Conference (II) (10/09/08 - 2 Comments)
And at 6:45 the conference got underway, right on time (though my brain and my computer are still one time zone ahead). After playing some instrumental numbers, including a very nice Irish reel, Keith Getty and his band led the crowd in "All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name." Immediately I noticed how different a sound there is between 6000 women and, as at Together for the Gospel, 5000 men; or maybe it's as much...
True Woman Conference (I) (10/09/08 - 2 Comments)
It somehow seemed appropriate that both the Captain and the First Officer of the flight that took me to the True Woman Conference were women. Coincidence? Maybe. Maybe not. I've often wondered if a female pilot would laugh if I said, "I'm totally comfortable with you flying the plane, but, you know, I've seen my wife's spatial sense and, well, would you mind letting a man park it?" (If it's not painfully obvious, I'm joking--don't...
True Woman (10/09/08 - 13 Comments)
Today I'm a True Woman; or I will be, at any rate. This morning, before the sun comes up, I'll be heading to Chicago to take in the True Woman Conference. This conference promises to be unique among those I've attended for the very fact that it is a conference for women (and, in case you've never realized it, I'm no woman). Of course I'm accustomed to going to conferences for which I am not...
Quote - Glorious Submission (07/05/08 - 6 Comments)
Here is yet another little quote drawn from that great big book I’ve been reading. In his Old Testament Theology, Bruce Waltke is careful to prove that gender roles and differences are rooted not in society and culture but in creation. He shows that, though men and women have been created equal, man was to take the leadership role in family and in the church. This is not a result of the fall into sin...
Proverbs 31 2K1 (06/20/08 - 32 Comments)
"An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels." So begins what is undoubtedly the most famous (or most notorious) chapter of Proverbs. Written by King Lemuel, this chapter, the thirty-first, includes a poem praising the excellent wife. It has provided fodder for shelves of books and for countless sermons. You know it well, I am sure. Though the verses are most often preached and applied to women, within the context...
Book Review - Get Married (03/04/08 - 27 Comments)
Candice Watters’ professor just about blew her mind. “I was sitting in class learning about all the ways our country was slipping from its constitutional foundations. And in a moment of exasperation, I raised my hand and called out, ‘So what’s the solution?’” It wasn’t what she expected. Her professor told her to get married, to have babies, and to do government (and in that order, too). Here she was, in grad school pursuing a...