Heidi Bright Parales, M.Div.

Thanks for posting, Cheryl.
John Piper might want to take a look at Hosea 11:9, which specifically says the Creator is NOT masculine or male.
“I will not execute the fierceness of Mine anger, I will
not return to destroy Ephraim; for I am G-d, and not man, the Holy One in the midst of thee; and I will not come in fury.”
In this verse, the Hebrew uses the term for the masculine, or male, “ish,” not the generic idea of man (human).
Feminine images of the Divine abound in the Bible–as pregnant, going through labor, giving birth, nursing, and protecting her young.
The concept of God as a bearded old man sitting on a throne was borrowed from Greek myths, namely copying Zeus.
After completing my MDiv, I spent 5 years researching women in the Bible and could not keep silent.
The information was published by Smyth & Helwys in 1998
as “Hidden Voices: Biblical Women and Our Christian Heritage”
http://www.helwys.com/books/hidden_voices.html
It addresses all these issues.