Feb 14, 2022 | Christian Life
Have you ever received a gift you didnât expect? My best friend loves to cook and her kitchen is filled with every gadget known to man. While I like to bake, my kitchen tools are comprised mostly of the basics. I have silverware, a few large metal spatulas, spoons, a...
Jan 6, 2022 | Bible Study Sneak Peeks (Excerpts), Suffering, Surrender
Will Anyone Miss Me? If you have ever felt like that, then you can relate to Hagar’s heartbreak. After Hagar is used by Abraham and Sarah to conceive a son, it doesnât take long before conflict arises. Hagar is disrespectful toward Sarah; Sarah bullies Hagar,...
Nov 15, 2021 | Adoption, Courage, Sanctity of Life
Adoption. What a beautiful concept. And it was God’s idea! It is how God chose to create a family for Himself to be the object of His eternal love and affection (Ephesians 1:5; Romans 8:15). In fact, all throughout history, God has woven adoption into His divine...
Oct 8, 2021 | Bible Study Sneak Peeks (Excerpts), Character of God, Thankfulness
Jesus could have chosen anyone to be a part of His human ancestry. For reasons known only in the mind of God, He chose Tamar to bear the son who would carry on the royal line of Judah. God wove their son Perez into the lineage of Christ until the kingship finally...
Sep 24, 2021 | Bible Study Sneak Peeks (Excerpts), Courage, Surrender
About three months later Judah was told, âTamar your daughter-in-law has been immoral. Moreover, she is pregnant by immorality.â And Judah said, âBring her out, and let her be burned. (Gen. 38:24) Imagine that we are watching these events unfold in a movie. This would...
Sep 15, 2021 | Bible Study Sneak Peeks (Excerpts), Character of God, Perseverance
When we last read of Tamar, we discovered that Judah has no intention of giving her his third son in marriage. Though she is innocent of any wrongdoing, Tamar seems abandoned to a life as a childless widowâa tragedy in that societyâbut does this mean that God has...
Sep 8, 2021 | Bible Study Sneak Peeks (Excerpts), Character of God, Suffering
âAnd Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, and her name was Tamar. . .â (Genesis 38:7) Tamar was the daughter-in-law of Judah. She lived in a society where girls were married young and expected to begin producing children shortly thereafter. As if that were not...
Sep 1, 2021 | Bible Study Sneak Peeks (Excerpts), Christian Life, Follow Christ (Count the Cost)
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. (Psalm 119:105) There is a reason why Godâs Word is described as a light to our path. The farther we travel in the wrong directionâaway from God and His Wordâthe darker it gets. Once we take that first wrong turn,...
Aug 25, 2021 | Bible Study Sneak Peeks (Excerpts), Evil & Satan & Sin
“The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers, and Judah the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar . . .”...
Jul 2, 2021 | Evil & Satan & Sin, Idolatry, Truth & Theology
The concept of generational curses originates in a handful of passages in the Old Testament. With one exception, these were written during the time of Moses and are specific to the nation of Israel. The passages often accompanied Godâs warnings of âblessingsâ for...