Tag Archives: Women

If I Just Touch His Clothes

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Every day during this season of Lent we’re looking at the miracles of Jesus – his spectacular displays of supernatural power that are reported in the Gospels.     Among the documents that archaeologists have recovered from the ancient world is this personal letter from a Roman official to his pregnant wife:… Read more »

Genesis 3:16

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To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. Every day during this season of Lent we’re looking at one of the “3:16” verses of the Bible, spotlighting some of the significant theological statements that happen to fall on the 16th verse of the third chapter of a number of Old and New Testament books.  Genesis 3:16 “To the woman… Read more »

The Wife of Noble Character

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Throughout July we’re taking an in-depth look at Proverbs, the Bible’s one-of-a-kind book about our never-ending need for wisdom. “We can rebuild him. We have the technology.  We can make him better than he was.  Better…stronger…faster.” Those solemn words introduced every episode of the TV action series The Six Million Dollar Man, which aired on ABC from 1973 through 1978. … Read more »

The Lost Coin

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Throughout Lent, we’re exploring the parables of Jesus – the two dozen or so stories that were his chief means of describing the reality of God’s rule on earth.  Jesus told three parables of redemption – a trio of stories in which something lost is found. They appear back-to-back-to-back in the 15th chapter of Luke. The first is the Parable… Read more »