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This year's theme, The War for Normal, features a great lineup of speakers, as well as a whole bunch of fun events to make new friends with like-minded saints.

Tickets are more affordable than ever this year, with a brand new family pass covering your entire household for one low price.

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In our current series here on Brightheart, on being human, we're talking about four aspects of life where a man or a woman can grow and improve and become more fruitful as a result.

Those are the physical, the spiritual, the social, and the vocational. In well over a dozen episodes so far, we've worked through those first three categories,

laying out a vision for embodied and physical life, the life of the soul,

living well in the community of faith in the church, your people in place.

Last week, we talked about the central vocation of the man as the head of his wife and his house,

his ruling vocation, which includes other vocations as well,

like that of the father, provider, protector, etc. In each of these, he is to rule well. Today,

we turn to the central vocation of the woman in the productive Christian household, which is helper.

In the beginning, God created the woman to be a suitable helper for her husband,

Genesis 218. This pattern repeats and echoes on down through the scriptures as the daughters of

Eve help their husbands, continuing through the New Testament as well, where Paul urges the older

women to teach the younger women to love their husbands and children, to work hard in their homes,

and to be submissive to their own husbands. Without this good work in homes across the world and through the

generations, not only is the word of God reviled, Titus 2.5, but civilization itself cannot be.

And yet we've been catechized by our foolish culture to view the homeward-focused woman as something of a waste.

But imagine what she could have accomplished. She must be unfulfilled stuck there at home, bored out of her wits.

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