Five Lies About Your Body

Helpful post here written for women, but certainly applies to men as well.  These are such important reminders for us as we navigate a culture of external appearances.

Jen Wilkin:

• Lie #1: Your body is decorative. It should be used to attract the attention of men and the envy of women. What matters most is how it looks.
• Lie #2: Your body's appearance is flawed but fixable. You are not the right size, shape, or color. But you can (and should) go to enormous effort and expense to change that.
• Lie #3: Your body is a source of power. It can and should be trained, toned, and preserved from all signs of age. Its level of attractiveness or strength can and should be leveraged to give you dominance over and independence from others.
• Lie #4: Your body is yours. You are its owner. You may neglect it, obsess over it, indulge it, punish it, pamper it, or alter it as you wish.
• Lie #5: Transforming the outside will fix the inside.

Read the rest.  

The Snare of Compare

Jeff Robinson:

Our dear sisters over at Girl Talk late last spring concluded an excellent and insightful series on woman and envy in a series titled "The Snare of Compare." They have made the entire series available available in one downloadable PDF, the link for which is below.

Girl Talk is an excellent resource for women to compel them to biblical thinking on womanhood, femininity, motherhood and a host of issues related to the issues Christian woman face. The blog may be accessed here: http://www.girltalkhome.com/.

The series on envy is available here.

Resources for Women

Nicki at the titus2talk blog posts some great resources for women (and men). She writes:

My husband has being doing a bit of home-work recently, listening to a few talks that focus on family life. He's listed a few good resources for guys, but here's a list of some of my home-work assignments, some completed, others I'm keen to give due attention.

Loving My Husband by Carolyn Mahaney
Loving My Children by Carolyn Mahaney
Celebrating Marital Love by Carolyn Mahaney
Wisdom for Women from Titus 2 by Susan Hunt
A Fresh Look at Titus 2 by Carolyn Mahaney
Sarah Edwards: Jonathan's Home & Haven by Noel Piper
Marriage: Forgiving & Forbearing by John Piper
Honouring the Biblical Call of Motherhood by John Piper
To Be A Mother is a Call to Suffer by John Piper
The Centrality of the Home by Voddie Baucham
Shepherding Your Child's Heart 0-5 by Tedd Tripp
A Wife's Responsibility to Help Her Husband by Barbara Hughes