I wasn’t going to write specifically about Jesus. My thought process was that JC is the through-line in all of the stories so I’d covered that already. But that was a cop out. The real reason I wasn’t going to include a specific take on Jesus was because as a kid in Sunday school, Jesus …
David is one of the greatest of the Bible greats. I mean, if the Bible had its own team of Avengers, David would be Captain America. (Or Captain Israel, more appropriately) But really, how could he not be? He made his mark early on, striking down Goliath with the definitive good-over-evil, stand up for the …
I loved when it came time to learn about Noah’s Ark in Sunday School or at VBS because it usually involved animal crackers. It was a rare, adult-approved, opportunity to play with our food and we did so gladly. I got a horse! I got a camel! I got something that could be a tiger …
Gideon’s story begins like so many in the Old Testament: “The Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord.” Does anyone else wonder what their problem was? Why couldn’t they ever just keep it together? (It’s because they were human.) The overarching lesson is no matter how many times we mess up, God will …
There are famous people in the Bible and then there’s Jezebel. Hers is a name that transcends Christianity and it wouldn’t surprise me if many people didn’t know a) who she was beyond her being a wicked woman; and b) that she’s from a Biblical story. The name Jezebel conjures up a very specific meaning; …
Ryan Brinson 