Encouragement for Courageous Women in Christ
No. 33 of Returning Home (Renewed) The succinct Chinese proverb, “Talk doesn’t cook rice,” warns about what can happen when we make plans to change our lives but don’t follow through. Ezra was active in motivating the people to separate the nation of Israel from…
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No. 32 of Returning Home (Renewed) The men of Israel had married women they knew were godless and would remain godless. They married these women knowing they were making political alliances with other nations in the region. It was a way to ensure protection and…
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No. 31 of Returning Home (Renewed) After Ezra’s confrontation with his brethren, exacting their oath that they will put away their idolatrous wives, we are given a glimpse of what’s weighing on his heart. Then Ezra withdrew from before the house of God and went…
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No. 30 of Returning Home (Renewed) Shechaniah, seeing the weight of sin hanging over the nation of Israel because of their marriages to women of godless nations, proposes a solution to Ezra to bring them back into the right relationship with God. Therefore let us…
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