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The Masculine Gospel: All Girls Allowed

March 8, 2017March 8, 2017 B.J. MaxwellBiblical Meditations, Christian Life, Church Life, Galatians, Romans, The Gospel, Theology

“Therefore you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir through God” (Gal 4.7). The gospel of Jesus Christ is decidedly masculine but it is neither discriminatory nor chauvinist. In fact, the glory of the gospel is wrapped up in its masculinity rightly understood. Given the context of Scripture and the people among which the gospel spread, we want a masculine gospel. God […]

Jesus, The Feminist

November 3, 2015April 13, 2016 B.J. MaxwellBiblical Meditations, Matthew

A woman beds her father-in-law and then blackmails him when she becomes pregnant. A prostitute conspires with two Israeli spies to ambush her town. A widowed woman dolls herself up to catch a man, her disenfranchised mother-in-law’s idea to stay solvent. A woman commits adultery with a king while her husband is deployed in the king’s war. A small town’s finest church-going teenager mysteriously gets pregnant out of wedlock and no one knows who […]