Category: Bible study

Fun Fact: First and Second Kings were originally ONE book (for convenience’s sake, someone divided it due to its length). This book takes us primarily through the Kings of Judah, leading up to the time of exile. David calls his son, Solomon, to him, to issue final instructions and...

I love words and studying the Word! I often combine these passions as I read and study the Bible. Most recently, I started ruminating on the phrase “a man after God’s own heart.” This phrase occurs twice in the book of Second Samuel in reference to David. Yet David...

My daughter attends Christ in the Arts, School of Dramatic Dance. She works hard to learn her dances each semester. All of the performances use color, music, and movement to illustrate great stories of love and redemption. In January, she performed Reborn. The first Act takes the audience from...

When I turned five years old, my parents planned a birthday party on a Sunday afternoon. While they were taking a nap, as I “shoulda” been doing, I opened all of my presents. They did not re-wrap them for the party and tell this story whenever an opportunity presents...

Let me start this by saying, we have really excellent kids. We are blessed beyond measure and they surprise us daily with their wit, insight, and empathy.  Even the best of us can have a “bad day.” Sometimes a bad mood is situational. Sometimes we “wake up on the...

Earlier this week, the verse of the day came from Joel chapter two. Joel was a prophet to Judah, sometime after the return from Babylonian captivity. His message is simple, “Return to God!” His message is delivered in the midst of drought and plague – a national disaster –...

Depending on where you live, storm preparation is a seasonal event, like “spring cleaning” or the “holidays.” Some places prepare for hurricanes, tornadoes, blizzards, or wildfires. Preparing by definition is “to make ready beforehand.” I know both “extreme preppers” and those who aren’t even prepared for tomorrow. In our...

This week in my Bible reading plan, I read about Aaron and Hur holding up the hands of Moses so that Israel prevailed against the Amalekites (Exodus 17:2). This illustrates that we ALL need people to hold us up sometimes, especially in tough battles. Moses had a divine purpose....

When you watch a show or movie and the character has a secret, do you find yourself saying, “If they had just been honest from the beginning, everything would have worked out differently.”? (Maybe even better, though it would make a completely different final product). My parents often quote...

This week, I’ve seen a post circulating that says, “I had a lot of things to do today. Now I have more things to do tomorrow.” We often make jokes about procrastination like “tomorrow is anti-procrastination day” or “the meeting of procrastinators anonymous has been postponed indefinitely.” While we...