Micah 5:1-5 This lesson explores why Bethlehem—small, overlooked, and seemingly insignificant—became one of the most meaningful locations in Scripture. Tracing its appearances from Rachel’s sorrowful death, to Ruth and Naomi’s redemption, to David’s longing for its “special water,” the message shows how each moment foreshadowed the glory, redemption, and eternal life found in Christ. Bethlehem’s layered history reveals God’s intentional design across…
Sermons on Old Testament
Judges 12:1-7 Where did the term, “Shibboleth” come from? What did it mean? And what can it meanfor us today? While the answer is found in JG 12 and the judge, Jephthah, to trulyunderstand its context, we have to go back a bit further: to an earlier judge we maybe a bit more familiar with: Gideon.
1 Samuel 15
1 Kings 18:20-19:21 Today, we often find ourselves feeling weak and defeated—far from our potential assoldiers and servants of God. But God has a way of awakening the wolf—of bringing outthe strength from even the weakest of men and women! And as we come to 1 Kings 19,we’ll see that God would use His wisdom and power to awaken the wolf in…
1 Kings 19
Ruth 3:1-18; Ruth 4:1-22 Can God restore a broken soul? This isn’t just a thought-question. For most of us have, at some point or another, felt this feeling of abandonment and brokenness. Can God do the thing we struggle to do: can He heal and redeem our trauma and bring us through to something better? For the answer, we turn to Ruth…
Ruth 1:1-22; Ruth 2:1-23 Ruth takes place during a difficult time in the history of the Jewish people: the time of the judges, “In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.” (Judges 17:6) In that age, we find ourselves focused not on the current judge or some priest or prophet. Instead, we…