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In The Fight for Female: Reclaiming Our Divine Identity, New York Times
bestselling author delivers an urgent, power-filled call to women to
understand their enemy, to reclaim their value as females created on
purpose, and take their place in the spiritual battleground.
The very idea of womanhood is being assailed on all fronts: sexualized
by our culture, eliminated from language, and silenced by the church.
For decades, both sexes have been systematically undermined and
stripped of their strength. Male and female were originally created as
a power union, but that turned into a power struggle. For years, women
listened to the lie that to be powerful they needed to act like men.
Now the tables have turned, with men acting like women.
This attack is more than cultural, it is spiritual. Revelation 12:17
portrays a dragon enraged with women who has declared war on our
children. Our enemy, terrified of what--and whom--we were made to
reflect, seeks to blur the lines, distorting the very idea of what it
means for women to bear God's divine image.
We were made for this fight. It will require honest, intimate
conversations to emerge with God-inspired answers equal to the
challenges of our day. Our marriages, children, churches, communities,
and futures depend on it. It's time to unite, confident in our divine
identity, clear in our commission, and courageous in our calling, to
confront the darkness with love and light. It's time to fight for
female!
Responsibility is routinely overlooked, manipulated, and
oversimplified. In Scandalous Obligation, Eric Severson explores
the scope of Christian responsibility. This book delves into the
slippery nature of obligation, the dilemma of competing calls for
justice, and the perilous temptation to dismiss or avoid
responsibility. Using examples from popular culture Severson casts
an expansive and often daunting vision of responsibility that
challenges the status quo.This book presses readers to consider the
many complications that arise when Christians begin to understand
the extent of their responsibility for the suffering that abounds
in the world. It explores how Christians are to turn this approach
to responsibility toward the clouds of injustice and pain that hang
over our world today. With a brilliant use of Scripture,
illustrations, and insights from classical literature and
philosophy, Eric Severson makes us aware in this book that sin is
not simply the breaking of rules, but is living with indifference
to the needs of others when confronted by those needs.'--Tony
CampoloProfessor Emeritus of Sociology, Eastern UniversityAuthor,
Adventures in Missing the Point, Red Letter Christians In an era
when so many Christians confuse their ethics with their politics,
Severson summons the followers of Christ to once again take note of
the 'alien at the gate.' Scandalous Obligation is a disturbing
wake-up call to a church grown self-absorbed and complacent.'--Karl
GibersonVice President, BioLogos FoundationCo-author, The Language
of Faith and Science
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