God’s Crowning Creation
Cherchez la femme. Wherever there is signal blessing, you will always find the woman. When Adam named the animal creation, it exposed to his own heart that he was missing something. The variety and scope of God’s astounding handiwork only accentuated...
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The Women at the Cross
Cursing soldiers. Mocking prelates. Dying criminals. And these women. It is interesting to observe that of the various groups of people who stood by the cross no personal names are given except those of three or four women. Even the apostle John...
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Mary of Bethany
She was not commended for sitting still but for sitting “at Jesus’ feet.” The penalty which a great man lays upon the world,” said Hegel, “is to understand him.” The statement would be more accurate had he spoken not of a...
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Seest Thou This Woman?
Nameless. Hopeless. Christless. Until that day at His feet. Is it not a little singular that perhaps the most remarkable history of a woman in the Bible should give neither her name nor her place of residence (Lk. 7:44)? It only...
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Martha, Martha
Jesus, engrave upon my heart—That Thou the one thing needful art. As the two sisters of Bethany are always brought together in the Scriptures, we are doubtless intended to think of them together. Unfortunately, this has sometimes led to partiality. In endeavoring...
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The Woman’s Touch
A classic gospel message from a renowned servant of God. And Jesus, immediately knowing in Himself that virtue had gone out of Him, turned Him about in the crowd and said, Who touched My clothes? And His disciples said unto Him,...
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Lydia of Thyatira
How strategic was this open heart to the gospel advance into Europe! The aggressive spirit of Christianity in the early days is evinced by the fact that Christ had not been twenty years in glory when His missionaries planted His ensign...
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Dorcas the Disciple
Dorcas was a woman marked by service for God. She lived in Joppa, the place where Jonah tried to run from doing service assigned to him by God. Though women are to respect the position of men, they need not...
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Many Women and those Among Them
In Matthew 27:55, we have pictured the many women who had chosen to follow Jesus and minister to Him. It is a wonderful thing that there have been, and are today, many women who choose to do this. They choose...
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