Advancing God's Kingdom in the Family System
Our Advent adventure continues!! It’s Day 13 for those of you connected via the Christian Mommas app..You can catch up on previous posts here or download Christian Mommas App King Ahaz & King Hezekiah Ahaz the father of Hezekiah. Hezekiah the father of Manasseh, Manasseh the father of Amon, Amon the father of Josiah. Matthew […]
Our Advent adventure continues!! It’s Day 9 for those of you connected via the Christian Mommas app..You can catch up on previous posts here or download Christian Mommas App King David Obed the father of Jesse, and Jesse the father of King David. David was the father of Solomon, whose mother had been Uriah’s wife. […]
Our Advent adventure continues!! It’s Day 4…you can catch up on previous posts here Ram the father of Amminadab, Amminadab the father of Nahshon, Nahshon the father of Salmon, Salmon the father of Boaz, whose mother was Rahab.. Matthew 1:4-5 (NIV) Rahab is the second woman listed in Matthew’s account of Jesus’ genealogy. Rahab was […]
Our Advent adventure continues!! Ram the father of Amminadab, Amminadab the father of Nahshon, Nahshon the father of Salmon, Salmon the father of Boaz, whose mother was Rahab.. Matthew 1:4-5 (NIV) Rahab is the second woman listed in Matthew’s account of Jesus’ genealogy. Rahab was a woman of faith born into a family and nation […]
Tamar was the first woman mentioned in Matthew’s account of Jesus’ genealogy. Ur, Tamar’s first husband, was extremely wicked. For this reason, the most merciful and patient God killed him. Ur’s wickedness suggests Tamar must have been in an abusive marital relationship. After Ur’s death, tradition required Tamar to marry her late husband’s younger brother, […]
Today is the first day of Advent and my first time deeply paying attention to Advent…perhaps, it is because the first little one has the spiritual and cognitive capacity to learn about Jesus’s birth and second coming. Celebrating Advent, the days/weeks leading up to the celebration of Jesus’s birth, present opportunities for us to intentionally […]
And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of a great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity; And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings […]
And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of a great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity; And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and […]
Last year, I wrote a blog post on “God and the Sex Scandal Lineage“. This year, I wrote a devotional study on the life of Tamar- the first woman listed in the genealogy of Jesus. Tamar was traumatized, abused, rejected, and she committed incest. Yet, God saw it fit to have her in Jesus’ lineage. […]
There is something interesting about the women/mothers mentioned in the genealogy of Jesus Christ. Tamar disguised as a prostitute to have sex with her father-in-law, Rahab was a prostitute, Ruth was a Moabite (a descendant of an incestuous relationship between Lot and his older daughter), Uriah’s wife (nameless in the genealogy, her husband was killed […]
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