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Scripture Commentary article 2009-07-03

Womens Preaching Affirmed

I recently came across a blog article by Pastor Brian Mann who although he is a complementarian, admits that God affirms women’s preaching. Mann writes:

Isaiah 4:1-2 Proverbs 1:20-21 Women in Leadership Complementarianism
Scripture Commentary article 2009-06-14

Woman Called As Missionary Has Regrets

Recently, I received an email from a woman who purchased my 4 DVD set “Women in Ministry Silenced or Set Free. ” and then wrote me about the impact that the DVDs had on her

Ecclesiastes 4 Hebrews 4 Malachi 13 1 Timothy 2 Women in Leadership
Scripture Commentary article 2009-05-23

Paul As He Pleases 9

This is the ninth in a series of simulated interviews with the Apostle Paul taken from the position of what he might say if we could transport Paul from the New Testament account through a time tunnel into our present day

1 Corinthians 12:11 1 Corinthians 12:17 1 Corinthians 12:18 1 Corinthians 14 Complementarianism
Scripture Commentary article 2009-05-13

Paul Women Pastors 8

This is the eighth in a series of simulated interviews with the Apostle Paul taken from the position of what he might say if we could transport Paul from the New Testament account through a time tunnel into our present day

1 Timothy 3:1 1 Timothy 3:1-7 1 Timothy 3:2 Women in Leadership Complementarianism
Scripture Commentary article 2009-03-08

Reaching Unity In The Faith Without Authoritarian Control

The picture above represents not only the “bride” of Christ held back and controlled, but women in the “bride” of Christ held back and controlled. It is a great concern to me that there are many in the body who think that authoritarian control is needed to keep people in line and to keep the unity o

Esther 15 Proverbs 18 Authority & Submission Complementarianism Spiritual Abuse
Scripture Commentary article 2009-01-15

They Are Sinning Through Questioning

The issue of women in ministry allows us to the opportunity to ask questions about the hard passages of scripture and to work through these passages to discover God’s intended meaning through the inspired context. But in many quarters, questioning is a “sin” that will get a reprimand from a strong a

1 Peter 5:1-3 Jeremiah 23:1 Titus 1:7 Women in Leadership Complementarianism Spiritual Abuse
Scripture Commentary article 2008-11-25

The Feminization Of The Church A Modern Day Fix

There has been much talk in the last few years about the “feminization” of the church. Books have been written about this “serious” problem and many men are thoroughly disgusted with seeing men outnumbered by women in the church

Complementarianism
Scripture Commentary article 2008-11-18

Galatians 328 Is It Only About Salvation

According to complementarians, Galatians 3:28 is not about equality in Christ, but about all of us being in the same “boat” of salvation. The Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (CBMW) has made quite an effort to try to demolish Galatians 3:28 as a basis of spiritual equality outside of salvat

1 Corinthians 14:34 Exodus 3:28 Galatians 3:11 1 Corinthians 14 Complementarianism Galatians 3:28
Scripture Commentary article 2008-10-30

1 Timothy 2 Authority And The Magical Pulpit

Many people feel that the pulpit is a place for authoritative proclamation. However many people also believe that the pulpit gives a man that authority and allowing someone into the “pulpit” who isn’t allowed to exercise authority over the sheep, an authority that the pulpit gives them, is seen as a

1 Kings 4:24 1 Kings 9:23 1 Peter 4:10 1 Timothy 2
Scripture Commentary article 2008-09-28

Semi Egalitarians

USA Today has an editorial written by David P Gushee in which Mr. Gushee challenges complementarians that they are actually semi-egalitarians and they should be willing to openly acknowledge this

Isaiah 5 Complementarianism
Scripture Commentary article 2008-09-26

Unorthodox View Trinity

Wade Burleson has blogged on the Trinity and the unorthodox trend that has come into the church that teaches an eternally subordinated Son of God in the Trinity

Lamentations 2 Trinity Complementarianism
Scripture Commentary article 2008-09-20

Gospel Today Magazine Pulled

A Christian magazine is treated as pornography merely for reporting on the trend of women pastors

Hebrews 100 Isaiah 20 Women in Leadership Complementarianism
Scripture Commentary article 2008-05-18

Eve Deceived Adam Not

For a PDF copy of this article click here Eve was Deceived pdf file

1 Timothy 1:13 1 Timothy 1:6 1 Timothy 1:7 1 Timothy 2 Adam & Eve Debates
Scripture Commentary article 2008-05-14

Scriptural Fences

One of the helpful things in interpreting scripture is to identify what I call “scriptural fences”. These special verses force us to interpret the passage within the limits set up by the “fence” line

1 Corinthians 14:34 1 Corinthians 14:36 1 Corinthians 7:1 1 Corinthians 11 Trinity Debates
Scripture Commentary article 2008-04-20

Hierarchical Teaching Influences The Doctrine Of The Trinity

One of the ways that hierarchical teaching has influenced the church since the 1970’s is in the area of the doctrine of the Trinity. In hierarchical teaching, the Trinity is no longer three functionally equal persons who share the same nature

Ecclesiastes 2 Trinity Complementarianism
Scripture Commentary article 2008-04-12

Helpful Sites For Research On Egalitarian Views

I was also asked to have a place where we could list good blogs/web sites that promote godly views about women in ministry or issues of egalitarian marriage, etc. This post will be the permanent place to place links

Spiritual Gifts Women in Leadership Complementarianism
Scripture Commentary article 2008-03-10

Circumcision The Woman And The Kinsman Redeemer

In dealing with women in ministry, the question has been asked of me, isn’t circumcision a proof that God only wants men to minister through leading and teaching since God gave the sign of circumcision for males only to his people in the Old Testament. Did God give preferential treatment to males wh

Acts 7:51 Deuteronomy 10:16 Deuteronomy 30:6 Women in Leadership
Scripture Commentary article 2008-01-04

From Bobbed Hair Bossy Wives And Women Preachers To Woman Be Free

I am very pleased that Stan Gundry has given me permission to post his story about how he changed his view from a staunch complementarian to an egalitarian. I would also request that if you have a story about your own journey from prejudice to freedom in Christ regarding women in ministry that you e

1 Corinthians 11:5 1 Corinthians 12:7-11 1 Corinthians 7:4 1 Corinthians 11 Women in Leadership Complementarianism
Scripture Commentary article 2007-10-13

Gift Vs Office And Women In Ministry

Continuing in our series on the gifts and their use by men and women in the body of Christ, we come to an unusual passage where the gift seems not to be a thing but a person

2 Corinthians 11:13 2 Corinthians 12:11 2 Corinthians 12:12 Spiritual Gifts Women in Leadership
Scripture Commentary article 2007-09-23

Debating Women In Ministry Round 2

On Wednesday September 26, 2007 I will be having round number 2 with Matt Slick on the issue of women in ministry. We will be dealing with 1 Timothy 2 and the issues of whether “a woman” is a specific woman in Ephesus or whether Paul is prohibiting all Christian women from teaching men (or some vari

Isaiah 5 Numbers 2 1 Timothy 2 Women in Leadership Debates
Scripture Commentary article 2007-09-12

Spiritual Gifts A Means Of Unity

In Ephesians chapter four Paul gives us a glimpse of what the gifts of the Holy Spirit are meant for. Paul starts out with humility, tolerance and love:

Ephesians 4:12 Ephesians 4:13 Ephesians 4:2 Spiritual Gifts
Scripture Commentary article 2007-09-08

Debating On Women Pastors

Did you ever feel pulled in a direction you really didn’t want to go in. Well, this has been my life for the last 3 1/2 years

Colossians 6 Isaiah 4 1 Timothy 2 Adam & Eve Spiritual Gifts
Scripture Commentary article 2007-07-29

Pastor Paul And Women In Ministry

Every once in awhile I link to a blog that has material that I really like. Today I want to link to a blog by Pastor Paul Burleson which has some good things about women in ministry even though Pastor Paul is “going against the flow” in the Southern Baptist Convention

Isaiah 3 Women in Leadership Complementarianism
Scripture Commentary article 2007-04-21

Freeing Sisters In The Southern Baptist Convention

Wade Burleson has a great new post on women called “ Are The Sisters Free to Function. ” It is an article written by Jon Zens

Complementarianism
Scripture Commentary article 2007-03-24

Should Cbmw Fight Egalitarians

This week CBMW (the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood) released two audio tapes from the February 2007 “Different by Design” Conference held in Minneapolis Minnesota. ( ) I was amazed at the way that the gospel was connected to the gender issue in such a way that those who do not hold to pa

Exodus 4 Isaiah 1 Women in Leadership Complementarianism Debates
Scripture Commentary article 2007-01-28

Does Husband Of One Wife Disqualify Women From Being A Pastor

I was listening to the January 26, 2007 radio program online by Matt Slick of carm. org

1 Corinthians 7:24 1 Timothy 3:1 1 Timothy 3:12 Women in Leadership Debates
Scripture Commentary article 2007-01-20

Discrimination Of Women In The Sbc Can They Teach Men At All

I have been following a blog documenting the injustice done to Dr. Sheri Klouda a professor of Hebrew who was forced out of her teaching position at the Southern Baptist Convention’s Southwestern Theological Seminary because the new President, Paige Patterson, does not believe that women should be t

Complementarianism Spiritual Abuse
Scripture Commentary article 2006-12-29

The Case Of The Battling Proof Texts Part One

One of the things that bugs me when Christians have discussions about the women’s issue is the point when they are at loggerheads regarding “proof texts”. One person says they have their “proof text” scripture and so they are not willing to listen to what the other person has to say

Women in Leadership
Scripture Commentary article 2006-08-19

Pastor Has His Eyes Opened Regarding Faulty Traditions

I recently received this email from a Southern Baptist Pastor who watched the DVD “Women in Ministry Silenced or Set Free. ” this summer:

Spiritual Gifts Women in Leadership Complementarianism
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-11-10

@PGRodriguez80 @Latterdaytruth No apostle or believer is said to baptize with th

@PGRodriguez80 @Latterdaytruth No apostle or believer is said to baptize with the Spirit or with fire. They can lay hands or pray and the Spirit may come (eg Ac 8:17; 19:6), but the baptism itself rem

Ac 8:17 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-11-02

@DLepanto9801 @PatrickSemani @PrayTheRosary12 Well, yeah, that is RCC teaching.

@DLepanto9801 @PatrickSemani @PrayTheRosary12 Well, yeah, that is RCC teaching. But it’s not Biblical teaching. Baptism also doesn’t leave a mark!!

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-11-02

@DLepanto9801 @PatrickSemani @PrayTheRosary12 Where does scripture say that bapt

@DLepanto9801 @PatrickSemani @PrayTheRosary12 Where does scripture say that baptism replaces circumcision? They also baptized in the OT—what do you think John the Baptist was doing?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-11-02

@DefiantBaptist She’s a complementarian you know, right? Speaking is not despisi

@DefiantBaptist She’s a complementarian you know, right? Speaking is not despising.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-31

@DLepanto9801 @PatrickSemani @PrayTheRosary12 To obey what Jesus commanded. But it isn’t always possible. And RCC who grew up in the church are NEVER baptized when they believe so they clearly are not following the scripture since baptism always foll...

@DLepanto9801 @PatrickSemani @PrayTheRosary12 To obey what Jesus commanded. But it isn’t always possible. And RCC who grew up in the church are NEVER baptized when they believe so they clearly are not

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-29

@grok @WalterKissus @dalepartridge 1Tim 3 and Titus 1 don’t even have explicit male pronouns let alone a prohibition against women. For the way you are treating this, Paul ought to have said it clearly, “an elder must not be a woman.” Rather you have...

@grok @WalterKissus @dalepartridge 1Tim 3 and Titus 1 don’t even have explicit male pronouns let alone a prohibition against women. For the way you are treating this, Paul ought to have said it clearl

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-26

@Adminosaurus @schism There is no perfect church. I have attended 6 different ones over my years and they spanned different denominations: Pentecostal, Baptist, Calvary Chapel, non-denominational, Reformed Church of America, Mennonite Brethren. The c...

@Adminosaurus @schism There is no perfect church. I have attended 6 different ones over my years and they spanned different denominations: Pentecostal, Baptist, Calvary Chapel, non-denominational, Ref

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-26

@Adminosaurus @schism There’s zero record of any New Testament or early post-apostolic church performing proxy baptisms. Early writers like Tertullian and Chrysostom explicitly condemned the idea as a heretical misunderstanding of Paul’s words. They ...

@Adminosaurus @schism There’s zero record of any New Testament or early post-apostolic church performing proxy baptisms. Early writers like Tertullian and Chrysostom explicitly condemned the idea as a

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-26

@Adminosaurus @schism First, if only Paul preached it, then how would the Bereans check his teaching against the other scriptures since this is nowhere else found in scripture? Second, Paul is not teaching baptism for the dead but is refuting the Co...

@Adminosaurus @schism First, if only Paul preached it, then how would the Bereans check his teaching against the other scriptures since this is nowhere else found in scripture? Second, Paul is not te

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-24

@clementinetown @Toneskeee I’ve now gone to 6 different churches from Pentecostal, Calvary Chapel, non denominational, Baptist, Reformed Church of America, and Mennonite Brethren. They’ve all had their ups and downs and had issues. None of them were...

@clementinetown @Toneskeee I’ve now gone to 6 different churches from Pentecostal, Calvary Chapel, non denominational, Baptist, Reformed Church of America, and Mennonite Brethren. They’ve all had the

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-20

@SayvilleDavid @_Nosoup4you__ @annelikok @smashbaals Submit makes it sound like this is about hierarchy. Subject yourself to another is maybe better. You initiate it and the point is that you set aside satisfying your desires to serve the needs of so...

@SayvilleDavid @_Nosoup4you__ @annelikok @smashbaals Submit makes it sound like this is about hierarchy. Subject yourself to another is maybe better. You initiate it and the point is that you set asid

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-10

@BrendenHen8500 @sanderson1611 Many feel ashamed they are going bald and want to

@BrendenHen8500 @sanderson1611 Many feel ashamed they are going bald and want to get hair transplants. How is it a shame for a man to have long hair? You still have to explain how nature teaches this

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-10

@sanderson1611 What from nature teaches you long hair on a man is shameful? John the Baptist was a Nazarite like Samson and never cut his hair… Nature teaches you that arm hair stops growing at a specific length and that head hair keeps growing the ...

@sanderson1611 What from nature teaches you long hair on a man is shameful? John the Baptist was a Nazarite like Samson and never cut his hair… Nature teaches you that arm hair stops growing at a spe

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-10

@BaptistClips Curious. If Paul wasn’t also an elder/overseer, then I don’t know who was. A Positive Case for Paul as an Elder Though Paul never calls himself an elder, the NT presents him as one in function and spirit. Shepherding Paul exhibits th...

@BaptistClips Curious. If Paul wasn’t also an elder/overseer, then I don’t know who was. A Positive Case for Paul as an Elder Though Paul never calls himself an elder, the NT presents him as one in

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-10

@BaptistClips A bishop/elder has to be married with kids? So Paul himself was di

@BaptistClips A bishop/elder has to be married with kids? So Paul himself was disqualified? And he advocated for others to remain single in 1Co 7 and likely Timothy wasn’t married either.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-06

@AnalogRules61 @ashleigh_fittis @TheLaurenChen Interesting that the Bible doesn’

@AnalogRules61 @ashleigh_fittis @TheLaurenChen Interesting that the Bible doesn’t frame Barak as being shamed. What he said was actually similar to what Moses said to God. https://t.co/TkiGHCw1dp

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-03

@HvacRoar24011 John is warning about teachers who denied that Jesus truly came i

@HvacRoar24011 John is warning about teachers who denied that Jesus truly came in the flesh. This was an early form of Docetism/Gnosticism, which claimed Jesus only “appeared” human but wasn’t really

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-09-24

@bontrager_11304 @DefiantBaptist When you are not the people group chosen to bring the scriptures through and the messiah through it can seem like your tribe is not loved. Except that the plan was always to bless all nations through Abraham and his ...

@bontrager_11304 @DefiantBaptist When you are not the people group chosen to bring the scriptures through and the messiah through it can seem like your tribe is not loved. Except that the plan was al

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-09-23

@rightresponsem @TomHicks2LCF @TuckerCarlson Oh, so you’re saying the Bible is N

@rightresponsem @TomHicks2LCF @TuckerCarlson Oh, so you’re saying the Bible is NOT antisemitic then? 🤨 https://t.co/n2M1Zt0JLO

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-09-17

@DefiantBaptist The only measure is scripture itself, not the post apostolic his

@DefiantBaptist The only measure is scripture itself, not the post apostolic history.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-09-14

@CurtisSchube @dalepartridge No, scripture says you are blessed! https://t.co/5G

@CurtisSchube @dalepartridge No, scripture says you are blessed! https://t.co/5GYxhIUky7

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