How Jesus interacted with women during his time here on earth tells us a lot about God’s view of women. Actually, woman’s role in God’s salvation story was set way back in the Garden of Eden when God told Eve her offspring would someday crush the head of the serpent. The Son of God would …
Image Bearers of God
This week in the Biblical Portrait of Women class, we looked at three women created to be image bearers of God. None of them were perfect, but each, through their determination to put their trust in God, taught us something about the nature of our Creator. After the fall of mankind in the garden, God …
Woman as Ezer
When my church congregation would sing the old hymn Come Thou Fount when I was a kid, I was always puzzled by the line "Here I raise my Ebenezer." What in the world was an Ebenezer? My only form of reference was Ebenezer Scrooge and somehow it didn't seem right to be raising up a …