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Five questions to ask your current pastors or when you are looking to join a new church:
1.) Do women sin?
2.) Do women sin against men?
3.) What are some specific sins women especially struggle with as women?
4.) Do you hold women accountable for their sin?
5.) Can you give me a few concrete examples of when and how you did?
— Feb 15, 2026 08:33AM
1.) Do women sin?
2.) Do women sin against men?
3.) What are some specific sins women especially struggle with as women?
4.) Do you hold women accountable for their sin?
5.) Can you give me a few concrete examples of when and how you did?
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Steps for a husband with a reviling wife and steps for a shepherd in pastoring a reviling wife.
— Feb 18, 2026 12:06PM
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There are a host of problems with the way the vast majority of Christian marriage counselors counsel.
Edgington then names names: "From what I have seen in my experience counseling hundreds of men and their wives, Leslie Vernick, Darby Strickland, and Sheila Gregoire have indirectly destroyed more marriages than any other Christian counselors - by far."
— Feb 17, 2026 03:27AM
Edgington then names names: "From what I have seen in my experience counseling hundreds of men and their wives, Leslie Vernick, Darby Strickland, and Sheila Gregoire have indirectly destroyed more marriages than any other Christian counselors - by far."
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A woman who is trying to control her husband (authority usurpation) will sometimes seek to use pastoral counseling to leverage the spiritual authorities in his life in order to pressure him into doing her will. Pastors must be trained to recognize and combat this tendency lest they be used as pawns in her manipulative power games.
— Feb 16, 2026 02:45AM
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It's telling that in the three places in the New Testament where the gender roles of wives and husbands are directly addressed (Eph 5; Col 3, 1 Pet 3), they are covered in that order: wives first and then husbands, yet even the very best expositors today do the exact opposite order when they preach.Men are always addressed first, which then gives the pastors cultural permission to turn to the ladies.
Discussing this, my wife pointed out that more often than not, preachers will use the sandwich or circle-back technique. Start by addressing the men, move to the women, and then end by circling back to the men in a way that signals they are the more offending party and/or the woman's sins are understandable in light of how the men have been sinning against them.
1.) Have you ever heard a preacher in a sermon call out the ways in which women are specifically tempted to sin (e.g., bitterness, envy, gossip, slander, back-biting, vanity, ingratitude, emotional manipulation, control usurpation, desire to be lusted after, immodesty, etc.) specifically as the prevalent sins of women?
2.) If you have, was there a ten minute wind-up first where the preacher made sure to apologize or smooth over in advance what he was about to say, and give plenty of examples of how men can potentially sin like this too or perhaps even more egregiously in other ways?
3.) What would happen in your church if a pastor read 1 Peter 3:6 and gave the straightforward, unambiguous word-for-word exhortation Peter does: "Wives, consider your husbands to be your lords, and conduct yourselves and your lives accordingly."? What kind of wind-up would be necessary to say this? Would any amount be sufficient?