Diane Woerner

This seems to be the question of the hour, and understandably so. Our culture finds the exclusion of women from any role to be a relic of the past, one of the last vestiges of an old order from which we have now wisely advanced.  So why are Southern Baptists stubbornly clinging to something so […]

There are many sins of the tongue—gossip, slander, swearing, coarse joking—but one sin may be even more displeasing to God than these: the sin of complaining.  Complaining and grumbling are mentioned nearly fifty times in Scripture, and it’s never a positive thing. Consider the story in Numbers 11. The Israelites had been freed from Egyptian […]

[Editor’s Note: This is adapted from Diane Woerner’s book Dear Young Single Christian, which was written specifically for that audience.] One thing I’m sure of. Women are designed to be beautiful, and men are designed to appreciate their beauty. God, being our designer, must have had a good reason for making us this way. We […]

We have always lived in a dark world. Ever since Eden, that’s been our only option. As a result, humans have understandably sought ways to make this darkness more bearable. But because the darkness has also entered our minds and hearts, all too often our understanding of the way forward has brought even darker results. […]

Not long ago, the “What is a woman?” question backed some otherwise intelligent people into an unexpected corner. With the removal of biology as the most obvious basis for a response, they were left with the strange possibility that womanhood doesn’t really exist at all. But long before people made it all the way into […]

My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. (James 1:2-4) James, like many other Bible writers, does not speak of self-improvement. That’s a human-level perspective on […]

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