I have been reading C.J. Mahaney’s book The Cross Centered Life: Keeping the Gospel the Main Thing over the past few days, and one thing he says has really stuck with me: the Bible is God’s story, not ours, and that should be a guiding factor in the principles we gather from the Word. His example is David and Goliath.…
As Christ is the Head of the Church
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…
“Submit” to Your Own Husbands
Now, the question of a dictionary-like definition of submission. We could just look it up in an actual dictionary, but that would just tell us what G. & C. Merriam and Noah Webster think it means, not what God says it means! The word here is hupotasso (plus some funny characters I can’t get to show up). Hupo is a…