After I preached the Easter sermon on Sunday, I was driving home and a number of thoughts were ricocheting through my head - specifically about the unique challenges the women in our community face. The statistics are alarming. 1 in 4 women sitting in our churches have been raped or sexually assaulted. 1 in 12 women will be stalked and on average the stalking will last almost 2 years. Approximately 1 in 5 female high school students report being physically or sexually abused by a dating partner. We live in a culture of boys who haven't learned to grow up and be men. These boys are bullies who haven't learned how to exercise self-control. Instead of showing respect and honor to our women, they act like overgrown children, lashing out in anger or abuse when they don't get whatever immediate gratification they want in the moment. There is no excuse for these half-men and their pitiful displays of abusive weakness. These men need to know that God knows their secret abus...
A man made of mud learning to live as an image bearer of God