For some odd reason, I feel like a waitress at a fine dining restaurant—“Our special this evening is a hearty cut of True Woman Sirloin, followed by mouth-watering True Woman Tiramisu . . .”

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There is much debate in the Christian community over the touchy subject of role distinctions. One camp argues that the wife's role of submission was the result of the fall. If this were the case, I would have an even greater struggle with submitting!

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It’s a common perception that women who believe in submission are either doormats or stupid. But I’ve believed in submission for a very long time, and I am neither.

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Do you cringe when you hear the "S" word? Do thoughts of wimpy women held captive under a domineering husband's authoritarian rule come to mind? Sadly, submission is greatly misunderstood and often misapplied.

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When Sue Raia’s church in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, held a one-day True Woman conference in February, their main goal was to expose women to the message. “I wanted to expose the women to ideas that I don’t think they even think about,” she said. 

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True love is not an emotion, although true love carries with it the wonder and delight of pleasurable emotions. True love is not something we "fall in" and "out of." True love is simply the demonstration of God's character.

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Just a couple days ago, I was wounded by someone’s words. As I wiped my tears away, I picked up Nancy DeMoss’ four-week devotional booklet titled The Power of Words, and found my perspective changing as I read this . . .

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“That’s what we wanted to encourage women with—that you don’t have to be perfect or be this super godly woman who knows Greek and Hebrew. You just have to be willing to share your life and heart.”

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In modern English, "meekness" carries the stigma of cowardly acquiescence. But the meekness of the Bible—the meekness manifested by God and given to the saints—is a strong, active, volitional, courageous attitude.

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I had always confused the idea of meekness with weakness. I pictured a fragile-hearted, mouse-like woman when I heard this term—not appealing in the least! Then I came across 1 Peter 3:1-6 . . .

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Nancy Leigh DeMoss explains why Carrie Prejan's story is symptomatic of deeper root issues in the evangelical world. 

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We’ve received a number of emails at Revive Our Hearts over the past couple of days from women who are confused by Christian media’s seemingly wholehearted embrace of Carrie Prejean as a Christian role model.

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If your finery were taken away, and the hidden, inner parts of your heart exposed, would you look more or less beautiful? How much beauty is in your heart?

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Anne Stoltenberg was chomping at the bit somewhat in her role as Women's Ministry Director. She kept asking God, “What do You want for the women of Grace Church and the Racine area?” But God told her, “Wait.” As Anne sat in the midst of 6,000 women at True Woman ’08, it was very clear that this was the direction God wanted her to go.

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We can be performing some pretty spectacular looking, super-duper, spiritually impressive activities . . . but if our motives are impure, these activities are worthless.

 

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In what “little” ways are you welcoming the Enemy into your life?

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When I first started working at Revive Our Hearts three years and eleven months ago, I found some of their practices . . . well, a little extreme.

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How can you be intentional in the next 30 days to seek out a younger woman and share what God has taught you?

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The “softness” of woman thus also became our “soft spot”—the point at which sin affects and impacts us the most.

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What do all these have in common? None of these objects are fulfilling their designed purpose.

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I’m excited because these very virtues are the ones that please God—the ones He finds beautiful, according to His Word. That’s enough to motivate me to tackle these all-too-often foreign virtues!

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