You are stained red with sin, but I will wash you as clean as snow. If you will only obey me, you will eat the good things the land produces. But if you defy me, you are doomed to die Isaiah 1:16-20 Questions for Life Groups Read Isaiah 1:1-20. Are there any parallels...
Cyndi and I are dealing with a rather large infestation of poison ivy. Both of us are allergic and risk serious side effects if we allow one of the plants to come in contact with our skin. However, we hope to put a fence through the middle of a large patch. My...
Cancel all the debts owed you whether money, grain, wine or olive oil. And give them back their fields, vineyards, olive groves, and houses. Nehemiah 5:1-13 Questions for Life Groups Read Nehemiah 5:1-13. Are you familiar with the stories found in Ezra and Nehemiah?...
In this week's chapters of The Shepherd's Wife, Pheodora learns from her brother James that her husband is in prison. Last week we learned that Chiram was stopped by a tax collector and borrowed the one denarius assessed. On his way to Caesarea to purchase goats,...
Listen to me, you that want to be saved, you that come to me for help. Think of the rock from which you came, the quarry from which you were cut. Isaiah 51:1-6 Questions for Life Groups Read Isaiah 51:1-6. Are you relatively new to Flint or are you a Flint stone? Who...
Pheodora wondered if God saw her as "one grain of sand on a vast shore, one point of light in an endless constellation?" After all, God was very busy watching over her nation, and that alone must be a big enough worry. Her country lost its independence long before she...
Who pays duties or taxes to the kings of this world? Matthew 17:24-27 Questions for Life Groups Read Matthew 17:24-27. Why do you think that Matthew shares this story? Any thoughts on why Peter answered the way he did? Why did Jesus pay the taxes if they weren’t owed?...
Our companion book for our new worship series is Angela Hunt's second book in her Jerusalem Road Series. The Shepherd's Wife retells the gospel stories through the eyes of two sisters. The sisters have one thing in common. Their older brother is a traveling prophet...
Every nation's history includes stories about how it first emerged to claim its identity as sovereign. And like all recorded history, what gets passed on skims over bits and pieces of the story. In particular, we generally prefer the version that makes us proud of the...
"Don't shoot the messenger," she said, noticing the look of pain on the faces of those let down by her news. No one I know wants to deliver bad news. The Prophet Isaiah seemed to understand this human reality when he said, "How beautiful upon the mountains are the...