Recently I read some discussions on the idea of being a stay-at-home wife–not a stay-at-home mom, but being just a married, childless woman who stays at home all day while her husband goes to work. It’s an idea that gets pretty highly criticized, often for good reasons.It’s also something I was for the two years between our move northward (when…
Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. [Ephesians 5:24, ESV] I can just imagine the hordes of feminists getting out their pens and crossing this verse out of their Bibles. Not only does Paul say that wives are to submit to their husbands, but he explains exactly what he means:…
For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.[Ephesians 5:23] So why is it that God has called one-half of all the people in the world to go against their rebellious natures and put themselves under the authority of the other half of the…