This book demonstrates, through the full text of the scriptures, that women have the same God-given rights as men to preach, teach, and serve in the same offices of the church as men, doing everything spiritually that men do according to the leading of the Holy Spirit. The apostle Paul wrote, And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God who worketh in all But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as He will (1 Cor. 12:6, 11). It also shows that the opposition against the women that are called to preach and teach the word of God is a calculated plan that is instigated by Satan to prevent them from fulfilling the will of God.

My thirty plus years of ministering and counseling in the prison system with both adults and juveniles helped to formulate and conclude many of the errors, practices, and falsehoods that so many people have adopted and incorporated into their lives.

The book of Genesis records the beginning of all human institutions and relationships. It reveals Gods progression through his primary and compound names: God, Jehovah, El Shaddai, Jehovah-Jireh, El Elyon, and others. Genesis records the first four of Gods covenants with man. It also records the first dispensations, or agesunequal time periods where God give man an opportunity to repent of sin. They all end in judgment because of mans failure to obey God.

"Collected from his writings in Lutherische Brosamen, 1876; Ansprachen und Gebete, 1888; Casual Predigten und Reden, 1889; Festklaenge, 1892."

Deep prayer. Cleaving to our Lord Jesus Christ. Immersion in the Scriptures. Baptismal and eucharistic faith in quest of ever-deeper understanding. Historical un-naivety. A theological care for the truth that abides. An interest in diagnosing cultural and civilizational shifts. Attention to the words and teachings of the Church Fathers. Linguistic sensitivity. All these operational elements come together in this book, which seeks to search out the “Nuptial Mystery” of the human condition—“from the beginning” when we were first created, through the dramatic damage contracted in the Fall, as it plays itself out in the struggles of human history, towards the beckoning fulfillment of all things in the world that is to come. This is not just another book on marriage, but an education in a way of theologically “seeing” the Mystery of Christ written into our human vocation as male and female, called to spousal covenant, open to the primacy of God, fruitful with a fruitfulness coming from God, and leading us to the bridegroom on the cross, come to espouse his bride, the church.

SAINTS: I JUST WANT TO ASK YOU A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS TO SORT OF PROVOKE YOUR THINKING, BEFORE WE ACTUALLY GO INTO THIS VERY IMPORTANT SUBJECT WE HAVE CHOSEN TO DEAL WITH. CAN YOU EXPLAIN THE GODHEAD? DO YOU KNOW WHY JESUS HAD TO BE PERFECT MAN, IN ORDER TO FULFILL HIS PURPOSE UPON EARTH? DO YOU BELIEVE HE WAS PERFECT IN EVERY WAY? WHAT MADE HIM A PERFECT MAN, AND WHAT MADE HIM GOD INCARNATE? WE INTEND TO ANSWER EVERY ONE OF THESE QUESTIONS, AND MANY, MANY MORE, GOING ALL THE WAY FROM THE FIRST CHAPTER OF GENESIS, TO THE LAST CHAPTER OF THE BOOK OF REVELATION, JUST ALLOWING THE HOLY GHOST TO MAKE THE SUBJECT INTERESTING AND BENEFICIAL TO US.

The Origin of Evil, Mankind and the Godly Seed In thistrue storyAdam and his wife sinned, and brought a terrible consequence on the human race. Godjudges them, including the serpent,the one responsible for the fall of the human race. In His divine judgment, God declared that He will put enmity between the serpent and the woman, and between the serpents seed and her seed. Theserpents head will be crushed by the Seed of the woman, and the serpent will strike the Seeds heel and bruise Him, but that the Seed will strike the final and fatal blow. As a result of Adams sin, generations of men and women born into the world are death bound. Moved by great love, God intervenes, and sends His Son on a special mission. It would be the redemption of mankind through Gods only-begotten Son. To prevent thismission, the serpent movesto destroy the woman, and her Seed. But God never revealed the identity of the woman that would birth the Seed, and so, the serpent is left guessing and frustrated. His frustration forces him to become the unseen destroyer that would cause the deaths of Gods people throughout the ages of time. In his enmity against the woman, he tries all he can to prevent the Seed of God from being born into the world. He fails and the Seed finally comes into the world. Filled with great wrath, he wages fierce and brutal war on the promised Seed of God. Finally, he overcomes the Seed of God. But, did the serpent bruise the heel of the promised Seed, or did the promised Seed strike the final and fatal blow? Who will win the battle of the seeds? Find out in this thrilling and adventurous true story.

In this devoutly Christian book, Bertha L. Hicks-Drake tells the story of a woman who has been overlooked in the Bible. Described in Revelation 12 as appearing in heaven with a male child, this woman is no longer the enigma that has endured for hundreds of years. The woman's identity and standing in the Bible completes the story of Jesus Christ. Through the woman's narrative, highlighted in Wisdom Hidden in a Mystery, we learn how and why Jesus was chosen as the one to be the Son of God. The book reveals Jesus' identity before He was given this assignment and describes the beginning of the relationship that Jesus had with God. Deeply spiritual and powerfully moving, Wisdom Hidden in a Mystery will inform and strengthen the reader's faith.