Rebekah is the most determined and energetic of the matriarchs in the Old Testament. Not only does she seem to RUN everywhere, but she shows incredible resolve, wisdom and strength many times throughout her life. One of these times is when, only a few hours after Rebekah watered his camels at the well, Abraham’s servant…
In September my daughter Rose was baptized a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. It was an awesome day and an awesome experience. I have been meaning to write about it for months now, but I’ve been so caught up in finishing and launching my Old Testament book that I haven’t…
I wrote this as an Instagram/Facebook post for Easter and it has gone viral in the past several days. I figured I better put it some place more official so that I can keep track of it and keep credit for it before it gets lost on the internet! Have you ever noticed how in…
There are 21 stories about people receiving revelatory dreams in the Bible, but only one of these stories is about a woman– the wife of Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor of Judea. Her story is important for several reasons, one being that knowing that there is a woman in the scriptures who received revelation from…
The Huldah Gates In Jerusalem, on the southern wall of the Temple Mount, stand the remains of two ancient gates. Today these gates are sealed, and archeologists simply call them the “Double Gate” and the “Triple Gate” on account of the number of arches they have. Yet anciently these gates were called the “Huldah Gates,”…
Claudia is mentioned in Paul’s second epistle to Timothy when he sent him greetings from several of the saints who were with him in Rome. Paul wrote, “… Eubulus greeth thee and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and all the brethren” (2 Timothy 4:21). Beside her name and the fact that she remained faithful even…
We don’t know much about the Mary, the Mother of Jesus but I think she may have been a musician. Perhaps not a formally trained one like we’d think of today, since it is unlikely she received much formal education. Instead I think Mary was one of those women for whom music is a natural…
Tryphena and Tryphosa, who were mentioned by Paul in his list of faithful Roman Saints in Romans 16, helps illuminate what we know about early Christian women’s participation in the church. In Romans 16 Paul lists the names of ten women, specifying that each of them was involved in working for the service of the…
The Temple in Jerusalem plays an important role in the New Testament. It was the center of the Jewish faith and consequently, was the center of many of Jesus’s teachings. Not only were many of Jesus’s teachings given at the temple, but his sermons were full of temple references, imagery and symbolism. 1) It was…