Aimee Byrd's Blog, page 8

Clingy Women?

Today I am pleased to share an article my friend Anna Anderson wrote about a passage that stumps her every year. I’m happy to introduce you to another housewife theologian. Dare a housewife theologian differ with the biggies?   Yeah, like Calvin and Spurgeon. Every Easter I come to Luke’s account of the resurrection. It goes […]

Well, Well, Wells

The MoS team had the privilege of interviewing David Wells for this week’s podcast. Carl, Todd, and I covered all kinds of issues such as John Stott and big tent evangelism, asking the hard questions. Is there an evangelical center? How do we distinguish God’s holiness and his love? At one point, Wells asks, “Isn’t […]

A Bigger Circle of Influence Than You May Think

Last night I hosted a Housewife Theologian group for my church. We covered Chapter 7; on the responsibility God has given each one of us in our differing vocations as influencers. This morning as I was thinking about our discussion, I remembered Diana Lynn Severance’s wonderful book, Feminine Threads. This is a fascinating book about […]

Should Christians Even Learn Martial Arts?

There was a good question posed in the comments section of my article A Faith That Fights. As I was using an example from my son’s Mixed Martial Arts class to illustrate the idea of theological fitness, Neo asked: Should Christians train their children to fight? Or does this just make them better equipped to […]

Great Conference Next Week

I am looking forward to attending the 2014 Philadelphia Conference of Reformed Theology next weekend, and I wanted to share this information to any of you who may be interested.  I will be there with my Mortification of Spin co-hosts, Carl Trueman and Todd Pruitt to interview some of the speakers for the podcast, and […]

And With A Twinkle In Their Eyes*

Somehow, Carl, Todd, and I found ourselves caught up in the hype of the latest Christian movie release. That’s right, this week we got in line for tickets to the blockbuster film Heaven Is For Real. While we were waiting in line, we had a discussion about the whole genre of Christian movies. They seem […]

More Dispatches From the Land of the Confessing Baptists

Last week I shared about how the MoS team sent me on a dangerous mission to get to the bottom of the Confessing Baptist mystery. This week, Part 2 of my interview with the lovely Christina Jesuroga is available on the Confessing Baptist podcast.  We talk Christian unity, hospitality, Spurgee, the doctrine of the church, and […]

White Teeth Teens

I’m telling you, one of my favorite singers on my daughter’s playlist is Lorde. While I certainly don’t endorse all of her values, some of the messages that she sings about are penetrating not only the teen culture, but to all of us. This 17-year-old artist calls out the real picture of society, while also […]

A Faith That Fights

Christians are disciples, and therefore by definition, we are disciplined.Hebrews 12:11, “For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it,” is couched in an exhortation not to grow weary under the discipline of our loving Father. By […]

Yes, They Do Exist!

It seems that before I joined Carl and Todd on the MoS podcast, they managed to offend (I know, shocking) the Confessing Baptists. Basically, in a discussion about ecclesiology, they neglected to mention the confessing Baptists altogether. And so Tom Chantry wrote a post that took issue with his seeming nonexistence. Since then, the guys […]