Archive for 2009

How do I receive Jesus?

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

How do I receive Jesus? by Don Johnson Warning: Please do not read while drinking a beverage. **************************************************************************************************** How do I receive Jesus? Sometimes, I receive Jesus like a woman! What? Sputter, gasp! Jesus is obviously a man in the gospel accounts. How could I be so blatantly wrong? I can sometimes receive Jesus as [...]

Ordinary Eleanor

Saturday, October 3rd, 2009

Ordinary Eleanor In a day and age when it seems that the only role models being offered to girls are very attractive women I would like to put forward a different one.  Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of United States between 1933 and 1945, and the wife of the 32nd president Franklin D. Roosevelt.  She was [...]

My Brother, Who Do You Say That I Am?

Saturday, July 4th, 2009

Personal thoughts on the “The Centerfold Syndrome”

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

The Centerfold Syndrome by Gary Brooks, Ph.D. In this book Dr. Brooks describes about what he calls “The Centerfold Syndrome.”  This comprises 5 principal symptoms: 1) voyeurism or “I can’t stop watching gorgeous women 2) objectification or obsessive fetishism over body parts 3) validation or the belief that women have great power to make or [...]

MARRIAGE IS NOT AN ORGANIZATION: A Comment on Eggerichs’ “Love and Respect”

Sunday, March 29th, 2009

Why, oh why, must some Christians insist that marriage is “an organization” or should work like one?

A review of the book “The Road to Lost Innocence” by Somaly Mam

Friday, February 27th, 2009

This book was not written by a Christian.   The woman who wrote it is a Buddhist.  I am writing about this book because it talks about an issue the Christian community needs to know more about.  That issue is sexual slavery.  It’s something around which both egalitarians and complementarians can join hands. The author of [...]

The first time I really felt the loss of abortion.

Saturday, February 21st, 2009

  The first time I really felt the loss of abortion was on Christmas Day 2008.   I was talking on the phone with a friend of mine.  I will call her C.  C has been my friend for over 30 years.  We have gone through many difficulties together.  The first time was when we were [...]

Joel’s “Shall Come” Prophesy

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

Joel 2:28 “It will come about after this That I will pour out My Spirit on all mankind; And your sons and daughters will prophesy, Your old men will dream dreams, Your young men will see visions. We know that both men and women were already prophesying as prophets and prophetesses when Joel spoke this [...]