Valorie Quesenberry

Writer, ministry wife, mom, grandmom.

[Valorie Quesenberry @valorieq]

This is horribly sad. There is no mama for this baby. Oh God, help us.

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@paulryangmc Spot on. Beauty is powerful. God made it that way. For a good reason. But men are better suited for some roles. It’s a fact.

[Valorie Quesenberry @valorieq]

The Hostage Taking of Truth, by @valorieq https://t.co/qou5GfDtpd

[Erika Kirk @MrsErikaKirk]

“So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God, for whoever has entered God’s rest has also rested from his works as God did from his.”

Hebrews 4:9-10

…remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.

[Valorie Quesenberry @valorieq]

@AndrewKolvet Amen. Thank you for what you’re doing these days. Its impact is massive.

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@conservmillen Wow, Allie. Wow, Charlie. God has used you both and is using your words to turn on the lights for people. Appreciate your dedicated life, Allie. I can’t wait to meet Charlie in heaven.

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@conservmillen Totally agree, Allie.

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@paulryangmc Wow. Great thoughts in this article!

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Very appropriate in today’s context. 🇺🇸. #charliekirk

[Denny Burk @DennyBurk]

From Wayne Grudem:

“Sometimes the results of our ministry appear many years later: In 1982, when our oldest son Elliot was in 3rd grade, Margaret began to think that we needed a Christian school in the north suburban Chicago area (there were none near us). As we talked, I agreed with her.

We began to talk with other parents and soon we formed a committee to address the possibility of founding a Christian school. After many presentations at many churches and in many homes, Christian Heritage Academy opened in 1984 in Northbrook, Illinois with 59 students in grades K-6. The school now has moved to nearby Northfield, Illinois, and has over 400 students in grades K-12.

I was the first president of the board, from 1982-1984. I think many of you who receive this prayer memo worked with us to get Christian Heritage Academy started.

Fast forward to about 2005. There was an 11-year-old boy in 5th grade, and one day, after hearing a challenge from a teacher, he raised his hand to commit his life to Christ. This commitment set the direction of his whole life. The young boy’s name was Charlie Kirk.”

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What Charlie Kirk Saw https://t.co/CrrpSppJ0m via @valorieq

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@ericmetaxas It warmed my heart to hear that. Thank you, Mr. President.

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@paulryangmc I understand the head covering to be uncut hair, and I am a fan of that. Yes it is biblical and has beauty and purpose!

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Unbelievable.

[Denny Burk @DennyBurk]

This is incoherent.

N. T. Wright argues that it’s okay to kill unwanted children in utero so long as you do it “as soon as possible.”

He then admits that he doesn’t know when “viability” occurs, but it’s okay to kill the baby before then.

[Owen Strachan @ostrachan]

Buckle up for a thread explaining how I reconcile 1 Corinthians 11:6 and 11:15. My prayer is not that I push my sisters in Christ toward ahistorical feminism (as some have alleged), nor toward armed-up contentiousness, but rather that we pursue exegetical understanding in humility and love.

With regard to verse 6, my reading of this controverted passage is this: the Corinthians clearly seem to have been using something like a veil or head-shawl. Paul works through doing so in the first part of this passage, commending anything but a shaved head (which may well have been the common look of temple prostitutes in Corinth). A veil, in sum, is far better than a shaved head! That's how I read Paul's words in verse 6.

But as the passage develops, Paul shifts out of Corinthian practice (using veils, it seems) to "nature" itself (φύσις in the Greek). Nature commends a woman having long hair, he says; this is uniquely the glory of a woman. In fact, long hair functions as the "covering" desired of women in the service.

So there's a logic to the passage as Paul untangles the Corinthians' confusion. Initially, he's positively disposed toward veils (or the like), and there's nothing bad in using them. However, as he develops his argument, he makes clear that long hair itself is a sufficient covering. It's from God; it's beautiful; it marks women out from men according to "nature" itself; so there is no need for a veil.

In sum, I read Paul in this passage as teaching that veils can be worn by women and are preferrable to a shaved head for women. However, veils are in no way necessary or mandated, for "her hair is given to her for a covering" (15). God has graciously given women the gift he requires. His gift is both a testament to the unique beauty of womanhood and a modest adornment in worship.

So again, the point here isn't to be exegetically compromised, an idiot, a history-shredding modern evangelical, or to stupidly or feministically ignore verse 6. Rather, in reading this admittedly tricky chapter, I think that Paul starts with common Corinthian practice (which is well-intentioned) and then moves into God's kind provision of the covering he desires from women.

I do not claim that my view is perfect, by the way. But I do contend that it resolves the otherwise pregnant tension between verse 6 and verse 15. These verses can be harmonized, I think, if one understands Paul to be grappling with Corinthian practice in verse 6, only to then unfold a richer and deeper teaching in verse 15.

Having stated my case, even if someone disagrees with me here, that's fair game--the whole point of this discussion is literally *not* to hurl insults at one another (verse 16). In addition, to the charge that my kind of view has only caught on in more recent days, it's true that the church does come to greater understanding of some biblical matters as time goes by. Truth isn't new ala 2025, but God does enable his church to see some things over time that earlier generations did not.

If you're scared of admitting that, just wait until I tell you about the rediscovery of justification by faith alone in the 16th century, the rediscovery of the free church (not state-controlled) in the 17th century, and the rediscovery of the discipline of biblical theology in the early 20th century!

[Valorie Quesenberry @valorieq]

@johnmacarthur Thank the Lord!

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@paulryangmc Yes this.

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@paulryangmc Good points!

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@darrellstetler2 Good thoughts here, Darrell. Helpful explanation that could help many who are confused.

[James Plank @jimplank]

"The Holy Ghost rides in the chariot of Scripture, and not in the wagon of modern thought."

- Charles Spurgeon