Zipporah and her sons were reunited with Moses in our reading this week, and that reunion has a lot to teach us. First, we don’t know how long Moses and Zipporah had been separated. As we learned earlier, many scholars believe that after the incident on the way to Egypt, Zipporah and her sons turned […]

As you read the account of the parting of the Red Sea this week, I hope that you paused for a moment to think about the courage that it took all of those mothers to grab ahold of their babies and step foot into the riverbed with a wall of water right next to them. […]

I included the story of the plagues in Egypt in our “women” of the Bible study because those plagues affected everyone, and they were nasty! Imagine going to make bread for supper and finding frogs in your mixing bowl; and don’t even get me started on the lice. Yuck! We have to laugh at a […]

With Moses, Aaron, and Pharaoh so prominently situated in our reading this week, there is plenty of testosterone! However, the Bible records a rather bizarre (to say the least) story in Exodus 4 that reminds us that in a marriage, nothing affects one without also affecting the other. Moses’ wife Zipporah did not sign-up to […]

Last week we studied the Hebrew midwives who heroically spared the lives of baby boys after Pharaoh ordered them killed as they were being born. While Shiphrah and Puah certainly saved countless children, Pharaoh was not easily deterred in his genocidal quest to weaken the Jewish people. When his order to the midwives failed, he […]

Exodus dramatically opens with two unlikely female champions of a heroic resistance against the Egyptian government. These women, Shiphrah and Puah, were so important that in a story that is difficult to date specifically because the Pharaoh was not personally named, God made sure that their names would always be remembered. There are two cases […]

For Bible teachers like me, it would be so much simpler to teach if the Bible were full of Ruth’s, Esther’s, and Mary’s. Inconveniently, the Bible records real life. Sometimes real life is messy and complicated and unfair and always in desperate need of a Redeemer. Tamar’s story is certainly as complicated as they come. […]

I’m typing with one hand today, as my other arm is filled with one of my children. As I hold her, it’s hard for me to imagine that if anything happened to her, I wouldn’t be tempted to react is just the same way that Levi and Simeon did in defense of their sister’s rape […]

Two significant lessons grabbed us in Genesis 31. First, if you have the opportunity to change a bad situation, don’t remain a helpless victim. Change it! When Jacob realized that his situation in Laban’s house was getting bad quickly, rather than just accepting it, he called a family meeting with his wives Rachel and Leah. […]

Manipulation seemed to be the family trait of the patriarch’s, didn’t it? Jacob may have been the worst offender, and this week in our study it finally bites him back. Jacob the deceiver became the deceived. Regrettably, he wouldn’t be the only one injured. After working seven years to earn the right to marry his […]