Ruth 4
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Then Naomi took the child, laid him in her lap and cared for him. (Ruth 4:16) Can you imagine what Naomi must be feeling in this moment? I thought back to her first response after her sons had just died. She tried to get Orpah and Ruth to separate from her and go back to [...]
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Hannah Venable wrote a new blog post: More on Childbearing and Women 2 years, 3 months ago · View
I wrote a post on this a few months before I was pregnant with my first child. Now, after having a baby about two months ago, I am convicted by my own words. Childbearing is something to be done in service to others and to God! It is not for our own benefit. I would like [...]
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Hannah Venable wrote on blanca’s wire:
Okay, B, my post for Ruth 4 is up. Let me know if posting on each others’ wires is a good way to notify one another. Do you get an email?
2 years, 3 months ago · View
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Hannah Venable wrote a new blog post: Childbearing and Women 3 years, 5 months ago · View
As I read many of these stories, I am struck by the importance of childbearing. It seems like one of the primary callings for women is to bear a child. And it seems like it is one of the main ways that God wants to use them. In Judges 13-16, we saw how God gave [...]
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Alan Collins wrote a new blog post: SEX! 3 years, 6 months ago · View
Now that I’ve got your attention…I realise im probably ahead of everyone else in this reading. But this was to exciting to wait. I read earlier in Genesis 38 the story of Judah and Tamar. Tamar was Judahs daughter in law whose husband died before she conceived. To carry on the brothers lineage, Judah instructed his [...]