‘God’s Not Dead’ Writers Making Pro-Life Film, Unplanned

The film focuses on anti-abortion activist Abby Johnson, who spent years working for Planned Parenthood before switching sides. A $6 million anti-abortion film that takes a critical look at Planned Parenthood recently wrapped after being shot in secret in Oklahoma, and the filmmakers behind such surprise hits as God’s Not Dead and I Can Only Imagine are hoping for similar success when they release the … Continue reading ‘God’s Not Dead’ Writers Making Pro-Life Film, Unplanned

lafbwadSeptember 19, 2018January 23, 2020Leave a comment

Book Reviews

Theology Gals: Girl Wash Your Face, Not So Great

Theology Gals give some critical insight in their review of popular book, “Girl wash your face.” “The gospel is not in this book, in fact a patently false gospel is in this book” “This is a book that the bulk of what is present is contrary to what we should be focusing on as Christians. The bulk of what is being taught in this book … Continue reading Theology Gals: Girl Wash Your Face, Not So Great

lafbwadSeptember 17, 2018January 23, 2020Leave a comment

Biblical Womanhood

Desiring God: In Awe of her God

Joni’s Fifty Years of Counting Quadriplegia Joy This weekend marks fifty years since the diving accident that left Joni Eareckson Tada with quadriplegia. Fifty years of relying on others to meet her physical needs. Fifty years of pressing on in the midst of weakness, fatigue, and pain. Fifty years of trusting God to provide. Read the rest here Continue reading Desiring God: In Awe of her God

lafbwadAugust 1, 2018January 23, 2020Leave a comment

Family, Training Children

Thomas: Honoring Does Not Mean Giving Others Everything They Want

There are times when you have to do hard things to those whom you love. You do these things because it’s the best way to honor them. Honoring others does not mean letting them run all over you. Read the rest here Continue reading Thomas: Honoring Does Not Mean Giving Others Everything They Want

lafbwadJuly 30, 2018January 23, 2020Leave a comment

Fatherhood, Responsible Manhood

Hargraves: Is “Manly Dominance” Biblical?: A Response to Shalom Pearl Brand

In her post Shalom speaks to the importance of training our children to be good husbands and wives. That is well, fine, and good, but it is when she, in true Pearl fashion, goes on to explain exactly what that would look like that I quickly became disturbed at the extremely unBiblical nature of what she was claiming to be “Biblical” manhood (and, in a … Continue reading Hargraves: Is “Manly Dominance” Biblical?: A Response to Shalom Pearl Brand

lafbwadJuly 27, 2018January 23, 2020Leave a comment

Biblical Womanhood

Please Help the Henry Family

This precious mother, Christin Henry, is asking for prayer for her daughter Ireland (7) who will be undergoing surgery this afternoon to have her legs amputated in order to save her life. On July 9th John and Christin Henry lost two of their three children Ivy (2) and John Ross (4) when their mobile home caught fire. Continue reading Please Help the Henry Family

lafbwadJuly 18, 2018January 23, 2020Leave a comment

Mothering

Desiring God: The Hardest Part of Mothering

No one warned me. No one told me that after training our children to sleep through the night, after helping them learn the ways of kindness and the value of hard work, after teaching them the joy of reading and the delight of knowing the living word, after determining to most gladly spend and be spent for their souls, no one told me that the … Continue reading Desiring God: The Hardest Part of Mothering

lafbwadJuly 7, 2018January 24, 2020Leave a comment

Femininity & Modesty, Responsible Manhood

McDurmon: Egalitarianism’s dirty secret: the sexual objectification of women

God is not an egalitarian. That is not a controversial statement. Neither is saying that the strong should protect the weak. These statements border on the obvious, yet the implications of these ideas can be controversial. The sexual objectification of women, and women specifically, is a sin worthy of being looked at closely precisely because men are the stronger vessel. Objectification and sexual objectification can … Continue reading McDurmon: Egalitarianism’s dirty secret: the sexual objectification of women

lafbwadMay 10, 2018April 17, 20214 Comments