Manhood and Womanhood

A Godly Man Is A Patient Man

By: Thomas Watson

‘Ye have heard of the patience of Job’ (Jas. 5:11).Patience is a star which shines in a dark night. There is a twofold patience: I. Patience in waiting If a godly man does not obtain his desire immediately,...

A Godly Man is a Lover of the Word

By: Thomas Watson

The Word is a spiritual mirror through which we may see our own hearts.“O how love I your law.” (Psa. 119:97) Part A: Godly Man Loves the Word Written Chrysostom compares the Scripture to a garden set with...

Women in Combat: A Time for Truth

By: R. Albert Mohler

The Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal continues to dominate the world’s headlines, even as the incriminating photographs have become some of the most discussed — and infamous — images in history. Nevertheless, missing from...

The Gauntlet is Thrown

By: Doug Phillips

Vision Forum Ministries presents a forum of scholars, theologians, and journalists in opposition to the idea that a free people can survive while sending mothers and daughters to war. The civil law, as well as nature...

What Kind of Nation Sends Women into Combat?

By: Cort Kirkwood

The ridiculous spectacle of rescued POW Pfc. Jessica Lynch, the feisty, ballyhooed warrior of the Army’s 507th Maintenance Company, which was butchered early on in Iraq, occasioned the usual war whoops. Yet no one asked a simple question:...

Female Warriors and Feminized Men

By: Phil Lancaster

Earlier this month, the news media reported the dramatic rescue in Iraq of an American soldier, a nineteen-year-old supply clerk in an Army maintenance unit that had been ambushed after the unit made a wrong turn in the city of Nasiriyah. What...

What the Bible Says About the Draft and Women in Combat

By: Russel S. Walton

Background Briefing Massachusetts and Virginia resorted to military conscription in 1777 during American War for Independence. Other colonies rejected compulsory service, raised troops via local militia. US Constitution provides for...

Multi-Generational Manhood

By: Doug Phillips

Excerpt from the Book The Birkenhead Drill by Doug PhillipsThe same thing that entered into the training of these men, knights, pioneers ... must enter into the training of the boy scouts of today. Just as they respected women and...

Statement on Women in Combat

By: R. Potter, H. Hart, N. Riffert and W. Embree

This report proposes to show that there is no Scriptural warrant, either stated or inferred, giving grounds for women to serve in the military. The procedure will be, first, to examine the order of creation to show why women are not to be...

When Mamma Wears Combat Boots

By: Mrs. M.L. Chancey

The terrified face of Army Spc. Shoshana Johnson broadcast over Iraqi television and the news that at least two other women soldiers had been captured in Gulf II immediately re-ignited the debate over the role of women in the military. Pundits...

Messiah’s Congregation Position Paper on Women in the Military

Messiah’s Congregation confesses, along with all the true churches of Christ throughout the ages, that the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are the alone perfect source by which we may know what man is to believe concerning God...

Boys Protect Girls

By: R.C. Sproul, Jr.

If it is not lesson one, it is at least lesson three or four. When you are giving an address, you must know your audience. If, for instance, you’re addressing the National Luddite Association, it’s probably not a good idea to...

Prisoners of Political Correctness  

By: Jane Chastain

Thank God Army Pfc. Jessica Lynch has been rescued from an Iraqi hospital where she was being held as a prisoner of war! Jessica was part of the 507th Ordnance Maintenance Co. that fell into an Iraqi ambush, which led to the deaths of...

Calvin and Knox on the Doctrine of Male Headship

Editor’s Note: The Reformers of the sixteenth century did not acquiesce to the radical egalitarianism that has become the rage in Evangelical circles in our day, but rather affirmed the doctrine of male headship and female submission...

The Debate over ‘Same-Sex Marriage’

By: William Einwechter

Today our nation is locked in a debate over whether or not we ought to permit “same-sex marriages,” or some sort of “civil union” between homosexuals. This article seeks to survey the debate and explore two reasons why...

The Tenets of Biblical Patriarchy

Vision Forum Ministries Editorial Note: From time to time, God in His providence, allows not only for the testing of his saints, but for divisions, schisms and heresies to arise, that from such, His Church will grow in...

The Public Preaching of Women

By: Robert Lewis Dabney

In this day innovations march with rapid strides. The fantastic suggestion of yesterday, entertained only by a few fanatics, and then only mentioned by the sober to be ridiculed, is to-day the audacious reform, and will be to-morrow the...

Diseñada para la Feminidad

"La mujer fué la gracia final de la creación. La mujer completó la dicha del hombre en el Paraíso. La mujer fué causa del pecado y muerte a nuestro mundo. El mundo...

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