Phoebe Was Not the First Preacher of Paul’s Letter to the Romans Never has more been made of so little than what egalitarians make of Paul’s mention of Phoebe in Romans 16:1-2. This is no disrespect to Phoebe, who clearly…
I. Why “Complementarianism” Needed a Name[1] On a December morning in 1988 at the annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society, held that year at Wheaton College, in Wheaton, Illinois, a group of men and women who had been meeting…
The Fellowship of Evangelical Baptist Churches of Canada (FEB) is one of Canada’s largest evangelical denominations, with roughly 500 churches and over 80,000 attendees every Sunday. The Fellowship was formed in 1953 through a merger of smaller Baptist groups in…
“I am a Christian, therefore I am a complementarian. I believe the Bible, therefore I am a complementarian.” –John MacArthur Earlier this evening we all received the sad news that Pastor John MacArthur had passed away at the age of…
John Piper and Wayne Grudem edited Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood in 1991, and now Aimee Byrd has written Recovering from Biblical Manhood and Womanhood some thirty years later.[1] Byrd, an influential author, speaker, blogger, and podcaster,[2] claims to be recovering from so-called “biblical manhood and womanhood.”…
There may be no better example of the Reformation in action than in the home life of the Puritans, who masterfully applied God’s Word to every area of life and developed a biblical, positive, and lavish perspective on the family…
On Tuesday, President Trump attended a prayer service at the National Cathedral and was upbraided by the preacher directly from the pulpit. The preacher was Mariann Edgar Budde, who is a progressive activist and Episcopal Bishop of the Washington, D.…
Graham Beynon and Jane Toher. Embracing Complementarianism: Turning Biblical Convictions into Positive Church Culture. The Good Book Company, 2022. Intro If there was ever a time a book needed to be written on building a positive culture of complementarianism in…
Why do we not put adulterers to death anymore as prescribed in, for example, Leviticus 20:10–16? And since we do not, why insist, then, on the enduring importance of the prohibitions on adultery, incest, homosexual practice, cross-dressing, bestiality, and other…
As American culture continues to degrade, Christians increasingly find themselves needing to defend biblical ways of thinking. Two recent books aggressively defend the Christian view of man and woman by debunking important and influential misunderstandings present in the broader culture.…
A very strange thing happened a couple of years ago. During Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Senate hearings for her appointment to the Supreme Court, Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee read an excerpt from former Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s majority opinion…
The first time I knew myself to be a Southern Baptist was in the year 2000 when, while watching the news, I saw the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) had adopted an updated doctrinal statement making clear the biblical convictions that…
