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Tagged: 2 Samuel 11

You Can Overcome Suffering: Bathsheba
Posted on Monday, August 22nd, 2022 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: @carol_mcclain, 2 Samuel 11, Bathsheba, Carol McClain, Jewish Women's Archive, Matthew 1: 6, Romans 8: 37, Writing Redemption

@carol_mcclain Little is known for certain about Bathsheba (the fourth woman mentioned in Jesus’s genealogy)and her relationship with King David. I highly recommend reading the Jewish Women’s Archive for a Jewish perspective on this complicated woman. For certain, we know: She was beautiful (1 Sam. 11:2) Her father and husband were elite members of David’s vanguard. (2 …[ read more ]

How Do You Know What Is Right and True?

Carol McClain The world is hungry for happiness, and it is starving. Whoever pursues righteousness and love finds prosperity and honor. Pr. 21:21 If we look at the world around us today, we see the truth of the above. Everyone touts, "I'll living my truth." Like Pilate, who asked, "What is truth?" they set about to redefine it. In the process, only Orwellian doublespeak works. A few contemporary examples Maybe someone believes in a pro-abortion. They define the conceived child as only a fetus (which actually originates from the Latin fētus, meaning "offspring," "bringing forth," or "hatching of young"). The… ...[ full story ]

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