Month: January 2026

Nailed to the Cross (Colossians 2:14)

Nailed to the Cross There are names that get placed on us, by people, by pain, by seasons we didn’t choose. Too much. Not enough. Broken. Rejected. Forgotten. Failure. Sometimes the labels aren’t even spoken out loud; they form quietly through disappointment, trauma, sin, or shame. Over time, we can start living like those words…

Tamar in the Lineage of Jesus: When God Brings Truth to Light and Keeps His Promise (Genesis 38; Matthew 1)

Tamar in the Lineage of Jesus Some Bible stories are easy to read and easy to “amen.”Tamar’s story is not one of them. Genesis 38 is messy, uncomfortable, and full of family dysfunction. And yet, when you open the New Testament, Tamar’s name shows up again, not hidden in the shadows but placed right in…

When Fear Threatens the Promise: Abraham, Abimelech, and God’s Faithfulness (Genesis 20–21)

When Fear Threatens the Promise There are moments in Scripture that make us pause and ask hard questions: If Abraham lied about Sarah, did that sin delay the promise? Genesis 20 includes a striking detail: God closed the wombs of the women in Abimelech’s household, and then He healed them after Abraham prayed. Since Sarah…

When the Womb Is Closed: What Genesis Shows About Barrenness, Prayer, and God Keeping His Word

When the Womb Is Closed One of the honest questions readers ask when they come to Sarah’s story is: Why was Sarah barren? The most careful, scriptural answer is simple: Genesis tells us she was unable to conceive, but it does not tell us the cause. “But Sarai was unable to become pregnant and had…

Hagar in the Wilderness: The God Who Sees, Hears, and Sustains

Hagar in the Wilderness Hagar’s story in Genesis is one of the clearest pictures in Scripture that God meets people in the wilderness, not to shame them, but to sustain them and guide them. What’s striking is that Hagar experiences the wilderness twice, and she enters it for two different reasons. Yet in both wilderness…