Pastor Sharyl presents this video overview of the Chapter 9, “What are These Women Doing in a Place Like This?” of our 2021-2022 Horizon Women’s Bible Study, “What My Grandmothers Taught Me”. In the final lesson of this study, the author leads us to determine why these women – Tamar, Rahab, Ruth, Bathsheba, and Mary…
Video overview by Pastor Sharyl of Lesson 8, “Mary in the Faith and Tradition of the Church” from the Horizon 2021-2022 Women’s Bible Study, What My Grandmothers Taught Me: Learning from the Women in Matthew’s Genealogy of Jesus. The Women’s Bible Study will NOT meet on in person on Thursday, April 14 as usual. The…
Like the other women in our study this year, Mary was a woman on the outside of her social situation, vulnerable but strong. She was a young girl, in danger of complete disgrace, who had the courage to say “Yes” to God. Although Luke & John gave Mary something to say, and the four Gospels…
This is a video recap of Lesson 6 featuring Bathsheba. Do you think of Bathsheba as a manipulator, a temptress, a victim, or some- one who is treated as totally unimportant? Throughout the biblical narratives in 2 Samuel and 1 Kings, Bathsheba does not have a large part to play but she is a catalyst…
This is the video recap of Lesson 5 by Pastor Sharyl. Ruth’s story requires two lessons to do her justice. In this lesson, the second half of her story, we learn how Ruth, who is from a despised foreign group, and Naomi, her mother in-law, overcome their challenges to create a divine outcome. Why tell…