Paul and the “Silent” Women in 1 Timothy 2

I want to follow up on a comment I made in last week’s post about Beth Moore and the mistreatment of women ministers in evangelical circles. I wrote that one of the things that was said to diminish women was that Eve was “last in Creation and first in the Fall.” I want to dig into that statement a little...

Male Headship and Mutual Submission in Marriage

4th in a series of posts on a dynamic vs. static view of Scripture. See Parts One,Two, and Three. Nowhere is the difference between the static and the dynamic views of the Bible more evident than in the ongoing evangelical debate regarding roles in marriage. The traditional view, called the Complementarian...

Closing Loopholes to Protect Our Girls

A new law took effect on July 3 in Virginia which made it illegal for a 13-year-old girl to get married. It applied to 13-year-old boys as well, but the reasons that the law was needed was mainly because of the exploitation of girls. According to a Washington Post report, from 2004 to 2013 more than 4,000...

From Biblical Family to Modern Family

Photo by © Can Stock Photo Inc. / goldenKB 1st in the series, “Modern Family?” Ephesians 5:21-6:9 Larry L. Eubanks, First Baptist Church, Frederick, Maryland, April 3, 2016 This morning we begin a series on the family, and we’ve given it the title of “Modern Family?” but with a question mark. What we are...