David Schrock | Pastor of Preaching and Theology Occoquan Bible Church Woodbridge, Virginia Throughout the Bible there is great discussion about “blessing.” In Genesis 1 God made man and woman in his image. He called them to have dominion over…
Compelling Complementarianism The first sermon I ever heard John Piper preach was on Biblical manhood. I remember thinking that I’d never heard preaching like it. It was electric. Of course it was also the subject matter that gripped me. No…
Next month, April 2016, Christian Focus is publishing a book I co-authored with Owen Strachan. It’s called The Grand Design: Male And Female He Made Them and it is an introduction to biblical complementarity. What lies beneath The Grand…
Grant Castleberry | Executive Director The Council for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, Frankfort, Kentucky JBMW 20.2 [Fall 2015] **************************************************************** In August Target became the next corporate power,1 after Amazon,2 to rid themselves of all gender designations and labels for children’s toys…
Brandon D. Smith | HCSB Manager B&H Publishing Group, Nashville, Tennessee JBMW 20.2 [Fall 2015] **************************************************************** How does one apply the Bible to today’s life in a way that is fair to the text? This is a crucial question for Christians…
Ben Montoya | Associate Pastor Chinese Gospel Church, Toronto, Ontario Doctoral Candidate McMaster Divinity College Hamilton, Ontario JBMW 20.2 [Fall 2015] **************************************************************** Throughout my education, teachers employed analogies; they did so to help us understand difficult concepts by way of comparison.…
Brandon D. Smith | HCSB Manager B&H Publishing Group, Nashville, Tennessee JBMW 20.2 [Fall 2015] **************************************************************** How does one apply the Bible to today’s life in a way that is fair to the text? This is a crucial question for Christians…
Ben Montoya | Associate Pastor Chinese Gospel Church, Toronto, Ontario Doctoral Candidate McMaster Divinity College Hamilton, Ontario JBMW 20.2 [Fall 2015] **************************************************************** Throughout my education, teachers employed analogies; they did so to help us understand difficult concepts by way of comparison.…
As a freshman at a large, secular university I was at a crossroads in my life. I had recently become a Christian and was being introduced to new philosophies and ideas. I enjoyed reading my Bible and figuring out…
Mrs. Audrey Broggi joins her daughter, GraceAnna Castleberry, to discuss womanhood, mothering, singleness, women in ministry, and more.
It’s a common refrain, isn’t it? We see a young couple enjoying the newlywed life and through laughter encourage them to get their life in order before they have kids, because we all know kids change everything. Or we meet…
Recently, I had the privilege of traveling to Brazil to teach a weeklong, seminary-level class to Brazilian pastors and seminarians. Apart from the fact that I had to leave my family for a week, I had the time of my life. I…
