THE WAR OF THE WOMBS (30 OF 50)
Scripture: Genesis 30:1-43
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The War of the Wombs (30 of 50)
Series: Genesis
Donald Cantrell
Genesis 30:1-43
Theme: Home sweet home was a bit sour around Jacob's homestead
I - The Seething Dispute (1 - 2)
II - The Striking Decision (3 - 8)
III - The Sinking Deduction (9 - 13)
IV - The Shocking Deliberation (14 - 21)
V - The Satisfying Declaration (22 - 24)
VI - The Sparring Discussion (25 - 34)
VII - The Stunning Demonstration (35 - 43)
''A good marriage is not one where perfection reigns: it is a relationship where a healthy perspective overlooks a multitude of 'unresolvables.'''
James Dobson
The problem with clichés is that we forget they are true and relevant because we have heard them so many times they have lost their cutting edge. ''The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world,'' is a good example. It is so trite and trivial that it does not even invoke the response of a sigh or a yawn. We need to be jolted back into an awareness of the truth of this cliché if we to restore in our minds the place of motherhood in history.
Motherhood has been greatly devalued in our day, and many mothers do not feel a great sense of self-esteem in being merely mothers. We need to be reminded again of just how great a role mother's play in history. Confucius warned about the danger of letting women become equal with men.
Women were put through foot binding in China to make them practical cripples in order to keep them inferior and submissive. They were given no education, and so they knew no better.
But there was one Chinese mother who rejected this nonsense and refused to put her daughter through this torture. She was Mrs. Charlie Soong of Shanghi. She and her husband were Methodists, and long before women's equality was ever an issue in the minds of millions, they trained their girls to believe it.
The first daughter Elaing became the first girl from China to study in the United States.
When she was a senior, her two sisters Chingling 16, and Mayling 11 came to the ...
Series: Genesis
Donald Cantrell
Genesis 30:1-43
Theme: Home sweet home was a bit sour around Jacob's homestead
I - The Seething Dispute (1 - 2)
II - The Striking Decision (3 - 8)
III - The Sinking Deduction (9 - 13)
IV - The Shocking Deliberation (14 - 21)
V - The Satisfying Declaration (22 - 24)
VI - The Sparring Discussion (25 - 34)
VII - The Stunning Demonstration (35 - 43)
''A good marriage is not one where perfection reigns: it is a relationship where a healthy perspective overlooks a multitude of 'unresolvables.'''
James Dobson
The problem with clichés is that we forget they are true and relevant because we have heard them so many times they have lost their cutting edge. ''The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world,'' is a good example. It is so trite and trivial that it does not even invoke the response of a sigh or a yawn. We need to be jolted back into an awareness of the truth of this cliché if we to restore in our minds the place of motherhood in history.
Motherhood has been greatly devalued in our day, and many mothers do not feel a great sense of self-esteem in being merely mothers. We need to be reminded again of just how great a role mother's play in history. Confucius warned about the danger of letting women become equal with men.
Women were put through foot binding in China to make them practical cripples in order to keep them inferior and submissive. They were given no education, and so they knew no better.
But there was one Chinese mother who rejected this nonsense and refused to put her daughter through this torture. She was Mrs. Charlie Soong of Shanghi. She and her husband were Methodists, and long before women's equality was ever an issue in the minds of millions, they trained their girls to believe it.
The first daughter Elaing became the first girl from China to study in the United States.
When she was a senior, her two sisters Chingling 16, and Mayling 11 came to the ...
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