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- John Heseltine & Pam Masco
These multi-purpose illustrations of Bible characters, with...
- John Heseltine & Pam Masco
Mar 7, 2024 · by Marilynne Robinson. Buy on Bookshop. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 352 pp., $29.00. In a way, Reading Genesis can be seen as a tour de force demonstration of the Reformation doctrine of sola ...
Priscilla, an example of co-laboring in the gospel (Rom 16:3–5; Acts 18:2–3, 18–20, 24–26) Priscilla and her husband, Aquila, played a pivotal role in the expansion of the church in Corinth, Ephesus, Rome, and beyond. We meet this couple in Acts 18, where they catch Paul’s attention as kindred spirits: fellow tentmakers and entrepreneurs.
Jan 25, 2024 · It was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the others with them who told this to the apostles. -Luke 24:1-2 and 9-10. Mary the mother of James is one of the other women who accompanied Jesus in his ministry, heard the message of Jesus bringing the kingdom of God, was at the cross, and went to the tomb to anoint Jesus and were ...
- Priscilla The Artisan
- Working Women in The Bible
- Lydia The Merchant
- Phoebe The Patron
- Adam and Eve and Working Women
- Young Women with Young Children
- Conclusion
I was chatting with a group of people the other day and, as part of a conversation, my friend “Norman” mentioned that the apostle Paul and a man named Aquila were tentmakers by trade. I piped in and said that Priscilla, Aquila’s wife, was also a tentmaker. Norman looked blank, obviously confused by my comment that Priscilla, a woman, was a tentmake...
The Bible mentions women who worked in commercial trade (Prov. 31:16a, 24; Acts 16:14), in agriculture (Josh. 15:17-19; Ruth 2:8; Prov. 31:16b; Song 1:6), as millers (Exod. 11:5; Matt. 24:41), as shepherds (Gen. 29:9; Exod. 2:16; Song 1:8), as artisans, especially in textiles (Exod. 26:1 NIV; Tobit 2:11ff NRSV; Acts 18:3), as perfumers and cooks (1...
Even some wealthy women worked. Lydia was a wealthy businesswoman. She was engaged in the lucrative trade of dealing with purple cloth. The purple dye was rare and the dyed cloth was very expensive. Only the most elite and richest people wore purple clothes, so the cloth was a symbol of power and prestige (cf. Judg. 8:26; Esth. 8:15; Prov. 31:22; L...
While not exactly a job, being a patron was an influential public role that wealthy women could hold in the first-century Greco-Roman world. Lydia may have been a patron or benefactor. We can be more certain, however, that Phoebe was a patron. In Romans 16:1–2 Paul speaks warmly of Phoebe and describes her as both a diakonos and a prostatis. I comm...
Regardless of clear biblical examples of women who worked and who held positions of influence, some Christians claim that God has created men, and not women, with an orientation towards work. One Bible verse sometimes used to back this claim is Genesis 2:15. Then the Lord God took the human and put him into the garden of Eden to work it and keep it...
Some Christians promote the idea that the “biblical” ideal is that women stay at home. They teach that the woman’s primary domain (or dominion) is in the home, caring for her husband and children, while the man’s primary domain (or dominion) is outside of the home working for money. The only time the Bible mentions that women should stay at home, h...
While the ideal situation is that parents, the father or the mother, or another relative, stay at home with young children, I cannot see that God frowns upon working women. The Bible never tries to make the case that women were not made with an orientation for work. Rather, the Bible tells us that many women worked without the slightest hint of cen...
Jesus held women personally responsible for their own behavior as seen in his dealings with the woman at the well (John 4:16–18), the woman taken in adultery (John 8:10–11), and the sinful woman who anointed his feet (Luke 7:44–50 and the other three gospels). Jesus dealt with each as having the personal freedom and enough self-determination to deal with their own repentance and forgiveness.
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The foundation truth behind the role of women in the church, then, is that Jesus Christ is the head of the church. Man has the responsibility to play the role of the head of the woman, and the woman is to submit to her head. This is precisely what Paul said in Ephesians: “For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of ...
