Poetry, Short Prose and Walking

Biblical Patriarchy Against the Feminization of the Church

My gut feeling on the patriarchy is that it is biblical and my gut feeling on the feminization of the church is that it is not biblical. However, I didn’t understand what the issues really were nor would I have been able to justify those gut feelings until I listened to some of Mike Richter’s videos at The Heroes’ Forge. The theme of The Heroes’ Forge is “Men want to be heroes, and women want to be with heroes.”

The history of the feminization of the Church as Mike Richter outlines it in the video below begins with Elizabeth Cady Stanton in 1848. Today, the feminized alternatives to biblical patriarchy fall under terms like the covertly feminized variations of “complementarianism” or the overtly feminized variations of “egalitarianism”.

What makes the various positions of complementarianism and egalitarianism unbiblical are verses, such as, Ephesians 3:14-15, Acts 2:29, Hebrews 7:4, Matthew 6:9, Genesis 2:7, 22, 1 Timothy 2:12-14, Genesis 18:19, Ephesians 5:22-24, and Matthew 7:16. Mike Richter refers to these verses in the video below beginning at 13:48 showing how they stand as a rebuke against the feminized church.

This Is a Test

Are you defensive about those verses above when they refer to “patriarch” or God as “Father” or when they talk about a wife’s submission to her husband or a husband’s responsibility as head of his family or that there are consequences when these verses are ignored that are seen in the fruit of a family’s life? Do you realize that these verses are not optional?

If you need to repent, now is always the best time to do so.

The feminization of the Church has much in common with Darwinian and big bang evolution: They are all a corruption of Genesis 1-11.

They were introduced over the last few hundred years to undermine biblical Christianity while fooling Christians who followed them into thinking that they were still “biblical” or still “full gospel”. Many of these now Christian-in-name-only feminized therapy organizations capitulated to become the institutional “church” we see today.

Below Mike Richter interviews David Edgington. It is a continuation of the topics covered above.

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Psalm 91:1

Linda G. Hill’s One Liner Wednesday.

*Badge by Laura @ riddlefromthemiddle.com*

Six Sentence Story: From Death To Life

When Aurelia returned to the Six Sentence Cafe & Bistro she joined the red-headed writer at a booth and then they wandered to wherever with the Bartender. With the men and women at separate locations the men could have a serious conversation (and perhaps even the women as well, but I can’t imagine what they might be talking about even though I could hear them doing a lot of it).

On the male side of the room Lou and I, thanks to prodding by the tall, thin man, were fast becoming good friends with Lou even inviting us to go with him to his Bottom of the Sea Strip Club and Lounge, but I told Lou that I’d rather read a paper on what amino acids and nucleobases were found on the asteroid Bennu than go to a strip club. To elaborate – although I don’t think it helped – I said, Long ago when I was young and stupid I found myself lying on the floor while a woman having only words at her disposal frantically commanded life back into my motionless body and a voice advised me not to try to regain control, but merely trust that I would according to her words even though I witlessly ingested the drugs she wishes now she never brought.

How long has that voice been watching over you? Lou asked.

Now that that incident slipped back into my memory it must have been – forever.

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Denise offers the prompt word “slip” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.

With thanks to Greg Doles for linking this song in one of his playlists on Chasing Light.

With thanks to my friend, Samuel Manga, for turning his prayer into this song. “Tu me restaures jour après jour.”

Trail: Little Sugar Creek Greenway

This part of the long Little Sugar Creek Greenway is in Pineville, North Carolina, south of Charlotte.

It is a very easy, an even-you-can-do-it, trail.

Now to see if I can do it.

Posted for Pepper’s One Step at a Time.

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It goes under roads and these structures are welcome shady areas when it is hot.

Cosmic Photo Challenge: The Ground Beneath Your Feet

Dale offers the prompt “the ground beneath your feet” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

The ground looks different depending where I am.

For variety I picked four different views of the ground that I’ve walked on over the past few years.

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Ten Things of Thankful: August 1, 2026

I am thankful to the Lord for everything mentioned below and all of His other blessings.

The photos tell their tales with the help of captions.

(1) flat trails, (2) green leafed plants and (3) unexpected art work

(4) pretty flowers and (5) their bright reddish colors

(6) curvy sidewalks and (7) sunset clouds

(8) bridges, (9) trees and (10) beautiful evenings

John 10:9

Linda G. Hill’s One Liner Wednesday.

Six Sentence Story: The Voice Talks To Lou, But – Well – You’ll Find Out

After the voice rescued me from Lou’s cloud of demonic darkness, the tall, thin man figured I might as well get to know Lou in person and so we all sat at a table with the red-headed writer (though Aurelia had to leave when her phone told her to stop lollygagging and get back to work). The chitchat took some time to unravel its yakkity yarns making a way to my invisible friend, but when it did I had to concede to every skeptic at the table – which was all of us – that I never actually saw the voice nor did I even know his name.

The Bartender brought coffee and desserts and the chitchat resumed until it ended abruptly when Lou, wanting to get to the bottom of the mystery without wasting any more time, insisted that I, Tell that silent voice of yours to say something. I then heard the voice speak one word, Something, the minimum that Lou asked him to say.

From the expressions on the faces of those sitting with me at the table, I realized that none of them heard the voice and so I told them what the voice said. Looking at Lou look back at me I could tell he thought I was too far gone, too mental, too whatever and therefore harmless no matter how hard his terrified cloud of demonic darkness tried to convince him otherwise.

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Denise offers the prompt word “yarn” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.

Trail: Long Bridge

I go down this trail often because it is easy to walk to.

This is just off one of the Regent Parkway residential communities in Fort Mill, South Carolina.

Posted for Pepper’s One Step at a Time.

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Long bridge which some might call a boardwalk

Some bridges are a tad sketchy, but they are fun to look at.

Three ways to go. I take the one down the middle or to the right.

July 2026 Limericks

All of these limericks were originally posted to Esther Chilton’s Laughing Along With A Limerick during the month of July 2026.

Fakity Fake

It was fakity, fakity fake,
but we bought it since it came with cake.
And the cake tasted good
like a real, good cake should,
but the message was fakity fake.

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Prompt word: “fake” July 6, 2026

The sun’s setting and soon it is gone. Then the dark of the night lingers on,

A Wreck of a Limerick

Though they said, “It’s a wreck,” I am glad
it was not so remarkably bad.
It was not even worse
than the lines of this verse
and for that I am gratefully glad.

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Prompt word: “wreck” July 13, 2026 (modified)

but tomorrow will bring a fresh sunrise. We sing

Landing a Limerick

Though to fly might be fine I’ll just stand
where my feet feel the firmness of land.
I’ll leave flying to birds
or a limerick’s words
which don’t care – though they should – how they land.

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Prompt word: “land” July 20, 2026