Tom Schroeder

offers transparency to the era of the

"BLACK STOCKINGS"

that were heaped on women as a requirement of going to heaven, as well as exposing the ludicrousness of such a requirement.

  Tom has a folksy, wry, conversational writing style and his abundant humor comes through many times in these insightful experiences. The Lord has blessed Tom with a writing style that heads straight for your heart............he packs a LOT into a small package.

LINKS to Video on YouTube.com

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Subject of video: Compares Battered Women's Syndrome with Cult Spiritual Abuse--You will be surprised at the similarities in abuser tactics and effect on the victim.
(2 parts)

Spiritual Battery - Part I

Spiritual Battery - Part II

Women desire to be beautiful.  However, many fail to realize that beauty begins on the inside and works its way out.  Learn to let God transform feelings of inferiority, insecurity, and inadequacy into the unshakable confidence that comes with knowing who you are as a child of God. Discover that:

• You are valuable and dearly loved.

• You are a beautiful new creation.

• You can leave the past in the past and find peace in the present.

By Sharon Hargreaves
Friday, February 29, 2008

Some months ago  I was asked why I cut my hair, so I have tried to recall some experiences and conversations regarding the hair issues over the years.  At the end of this letter I will give reference to the transcription of an in-depth study on 1 Corinthians 11 done by MM Outreach Ministries of Nelson, British Columbia, Canada. Website: mmoutreach@gmail.com or www.mmoutreach.org

It explains  some Jewish views from the Talmud which were the additional written  and oral laws, over and above the God-given Ten Commandments. Understanding some of these Talmudic additions is necessary in order to understand how they affected the Jewish Christians of Paul the Apostles day.  These added laws were, in fact, in opposition to God's Word. These are the issues Paul was writing to the Corinthians to answer the questions they were troubled about. The topic of 1 Corinthians 11 is about head coverings for Jewish men and women while praying or prophesying.  It has nothing to do with a daily rule about Christian hairstyles for men, married women, toddler, child, teen or single woman. The workers not only subverted the topic from veil to hair, but they added a new requirement that women’s hair be kept in a bun. The workers made women's hair style into a doctrine of proof of salvation.

WHY DID I DECIDE TO HAVE MY HAIR CUT?

In 1st Corinthians,

we read much about the outward appearance,

including

long hair.

In those days, women's hair was definitely their crowning glory, and as we see in Israel today and other Middle Eastern countries, the beautiful, lustrous black hair. Paul wrote about the male and female hair, but the women actually wore a covering over their hair because the glory was to be of the man and the women were not to detract from the man's glory.