Women Disciples: Twelve Elements in Jesus’s Call to Discipleship

The Acts of the Apostles, which was Lukeโ€™s continuing story after his Gospel, records several notable stories of women prophets,[1] a woman teaching,[2] a woman as a wealthy benefactor and host of a church,[3] and a woman named as a disciple.[4] The book of Acts records Peter turning to Joelโ€™s prophecy[5] to explain why all … Continue reading Women Disciples: Twelve Elements in Jesus’s Call to Discipleship

The Prophet Huldah

Huldah, as one of the five women prophets listed in the Hebrew scriptures, was perhaps the most influential prophet of her day. The fate of her people, her nation, and her king hung on the oracle she would deliver. #Hulda #Josiah #WomanProphet

Styles of Relating

This twenty minute video offers some ideas about styles of relating we turn to, to protect ourselves rather than enter into deep relationship.

Goals and Desires

Learn what happens, in this ten-minute video, when goals and desires get criss-crossed!

Telling Your Story

Our stories shape us. What we experience, and how we interpret what we experience, shapes how we see the world, see ourselves, and what weโ€™re going to do try to survive and even thrive.

Tabitha (Dorcas)

The unique and intriguing story of a woman with dual citizenship, as it were, a woman known for her good deeds, the only woman who was actually called disciple in the entire Christian Testament, whose death rocked her Christian community to its core, and her deliverance by being raised back to life generated widespread belief in the Lord.

Elijah, Lessons on Loneliness

Originally delivered on a Sunday at New Hope Chapel, Arnold MD, this talk was a team-teaching project with another of the teachers at New Hope Chapel, in a series on loneliness

Secret of Contentment

In a message originally delivered for New Hope Chapel, in a series on Paul's epistle to the believers in Philippi. This twenty minute talk finishes up with Paulโ€™s letter to his beloved sisters and brothers in the Lord.

Way of the Cross

How do we live in the place of is great joy, in the humility of Christ, to be like Christ in willingness to surrender all, even to death, for love? This was Paul's focus in his letter to the believers in Philippi.

The Golden Calf

So, while God was giving Moses all the law, and the instructions for the tabernacle, a beautiful meeting place between heaven and earth, the people were losing hope and losing trust.