Monthly Archives: June 2015
This week I retell the story of the prophet Elisha and the Shunammite woman from 2 Kings 4:8-37.
“Don’t go there,” she warned me, when I prophesied that I would find her nursing her son when I returned next year, but it was true. God saw fit to answer her deepest…..
Following his story in Acts 6:5-8 and 21:8-9, I take a look at Philip, the Evangelist.
I was scared too – after they killed Stephen. We understood that some people inevitably resist change. What we hadn’t counted on was their willingness to defend their precious status quo with stones.
You…..
Luke mentions Lydia briefly as one of the first converts in Philippi in Acts 16:14-15, 40. I base this imagining on that account as well as Paul’s letter to the Philippians.
Though my husband and I were originally from Thyatira in Asia Minor, we have spent most of our married life here…..
Over the past four posts I’ve zoomed in on four biblical stories – two about women, two about men; two from the New Testament and two from the Old. My original thought was to illustrate the uniqueness of God’s love for people – how each encounter unfolds around the specific needs…..