Advent 2021

The name “Bathsheba” immediately elicits more questions than answers. Yet, how she appears in the Matthew 1 genealogy of the Lord Jesus already speaks volumes: “she who had been the wife of Uriah.” She is not known for herself, but rather as a patriarch’s appendage, a...

David, the youngest son of Jesse, shows us that God looks at our heart and not our outer appearance (1 Samuel 16:7). When David was anointed, he was young, with many dreams and ambitions, yet he learned to fully trust God and the plans God had for his life. Moreover,...

Jesse, King David’s father, doesn’t seem to get much air time in the written narrative of the Bible. Perhaps we have heard him mentioned in Children’s Sabbath School Classes or in a picture book, yet, his story is rarely told. The grandson of Ruth and Boaz, Jesse...

The season of Advent offers the Christian community an opportunity to reflect on just how God shows up. It is a season of unveiling and unpacking. And just as we get to unpack our incoming gifts, we also get to unpack the gospel, which in-and-of-itself, is a pretty...

I chose Ruth as my character because she was a strong woman who had faith in God. Even when everything was not going so well, she never gave up. I truly believe that Ruth was an extraordinary woman. In today’s society we forget to have at least a mustard seed of...

Boaz is perhaps one of the least likely folks to find in the lineage of the Savior. He was, after all, the son of a woman who was not just a cultural outsider, but technically also a woman of ill-repute. His father, Salmon, was a surprising character for having taken...