Quoting Quiverfull: What is Betrothal?

March 22, 2013 By 18 Comments
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by Jonathan Lindvall at Bold Christian Living In the story of Christ s birth we have an interesting illustration of the practice of betrothal. Joseph was deliberating what he should do with Mary, his betrothed wife, having learned

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Quoting Quiverfull: Love is a Choice?

March 9, 2013 By 5 Comments
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Voddie Baucham from his book “Family Driven Faith” Many of us have completely divorced the concept of love from the mind and will. We speak of the heart as though it were the opposite of the mind and the will when in fact the mind and will are precisely

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Quoting Quiverfull: Older Single Women?

March 6, 2013 By 10 Comments
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Jonathan Lindvall of Bold Christian Living Still, Biblically, the parents’ role (and particularly that of a woman’s father) is very significant. I suppose it is theoretically conceivable the Lord would lead a woman to enter a betrothal covenant and marry without her father’s

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The Purity Conversation – My Two Cents

March 5, 2013 By 3 Comments
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by Kristen Rosser It appears to have started with a blog post called I am Damaged Goods by Sarah Bessey, in which she says: In the face of our sexually-dysfunctional culture, the Church longs to stand as an outpost of God’s ways of love

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True Love Waits

February 28, 2013 By 14 Comments
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by Betty Crux   If there is anything I have very, very vivid memories of, it’s youth group at either church we attended.   I was a loser, no getting around it.  I wasn’t good looking, and my parents weren’t helping that fact.  I had

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