Mothers in the Bible: Sarah, Didn’t Believe

When we first meet Sarah, she is known as Sarai and her husband is known as Abram. Sarai and Abram are living in the land of Canaan, when God tells them to leave.  We are told that Abram is 75, and it is believed Sarai is about ten years younger than her husband.  So, they are leaving to roam around […]

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Mothers of the Bible: Eve, Mother of All Mankind

With Mother’s Day arriving this month, I thought we would take a look at some of the Mother’s in the Bible.  I originally intended to just explore those women who deeply longed for a child and had often lost hope before seeing their dreams fulfilled.  However, while studying these women several other mother’s and lessons stood out to me.  So, […]

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Mary Magdalene: Discovered the Tomb Empty

We left Mary Magdalene at the crucifixion.  Jesus is dead and they have taken his body to the grave, but the Sabbath was beginning and the women could not prepare his body.  So, they go home to follow the Jewish customs of the day.  We’re not told where they were, but more than likely they were together. John 20:1 tells […]

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Jesus Came that We Might Be Saved

  I recently had a friend ask me about Jesus and Mary Magdalene.  The individual, who was not raised in church, believed that they were married and the misconception that Mary Magdalene was a prostitute. This belief that she was a prostitute began in the Middle Ages, when several women mentioned in the scriptures were combined. But, then my friend […]

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Mary Magdalene: Witness to the Crucifixion

The next mention we have of Mary Magdalene after Jesus heals her, is of her presence at the crucifixion. Luke 23:49 says, “”women who had followed him from Galilee” standing at a distance”, but does not mentioned these women by name.  However, the other three gospels do mention these women and among them is Mary Magdalene. Matthew 27:56, says, “Among them […]

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Mary Magdalene: Healed by Jesus

In thinking about the story of Easter, there are only a select handful  of people mentioned as having a first hand view of the crucifixion and resurrection.  Mary, the Mother of Jesus is one of those mentioned at these events and with her is Mary of Magda or as we refer to her today, Mary Magdalene. Mary Magdalene is mentioned at […]

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Wives of King David: Bathsheba

The story of Bathsheba is the best known of King David’s wives. By the time David meets her he is King of Israel and living in Jerusalem. Her name means the daughter of oath.  Her father and grandfather were in David’s inner circle and Wikipedia says her father, Eliam, was “one of David’s thirty” and her grandfather, Ahitophel was “one […]

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Genealogy of Jesus: The Different Faces of Rebekah

Isaac, son of Abraham, needed a wife but did not want to find one among the Canaanites, where they were living.  A servant was sent to find a wife.  When he arrived in Abraham’s homeland, the servant prayed for guidance.  Rebekah appeared before the man finished praying. She offered water to the servant and his camels.  Then they followed her […]

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Genealogy of Jesus: Leah, the UnLoved

We’ve been studying the women in Jesus genealogy.  There are three additional women that we know by name, although they are not listed by name in the genealogy listed in Matthew.  However, they each play an integral part in the story of God’s people.  We know not only their names, but their stories from the book of Genesis. These three women […]

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Lessons from the Women in Jesus Genealogy

We’ve studied the five women mentioned in Jesus genealogy in the book of Matthew.  However, we’ve learned that none of them were perfect and they all had choices to make. We don’t have to be perfect—none of these women were perfect. After all, we have an adulterer, harlot, and foreigner among the women in Jesus family history. Our consequences may […]

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Genealogy of Jesus: Tamar, the neglected

Judah, the son of Jacob, married and had three sons.  When his oldest son came of age, Judah found a wife for him.  Her name was Tamar.  Her husband, Er, was wicked and the Lord put him to death.  Then Onan married her, but he was also wicked and put to death.  Tamar was sent back to her father’s household.  […]

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Genealogy of Jesus: Rahab, the harlot

  The first thing we are told about Rahab, in Joshua 2, is that she was a prostitute.  There is no sugar coating it.  Her sins are put out there for everyone to know. Joshua sent two spies into Jericho and they come to the house of Rahab.  She hides the men and watches out for them. When the king […]

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Genealogy of Jesus: Ruth, the Moabite

Ruth is one of the women specifically mentioned by name in Jesus genealogy.  However, she receives more than just a chapter or two the way the other women in the genealogy of Jesus do.  Her story takes an entire book to tell. Ruth lived in the Moab.  She married Mahlon, the son of Naomi and Elimelek, who had moved from […]

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Genealogy of Jesus: The Wife of Uriah

In the genealogy of Jesus, mentioned in Matthew 1, we are told “David was the father of Solomon, whose mother had been Uriah’s wife.” We know from the Biblical account found in 2 Samuel 11, that the wife of Uriah was named Bathsheba.  The story of how she and David came to be the parents of Solomon is told in […]

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Genealogy of Jesus: Mary, the Mother of Jesus

Last week, we finished studying the life of Mary, the Mother of Jesus.   This week we are starting a new study on the women in the Genealogy of Jesus.  The five women mentioned by name are listed in the Genealogy account found in Matthew 1. I am piggybacking this study onto the study of Mary.  With Mother’s Day just weeks […]

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