Women's Weekly Bible Challenge

Hello and welcome to the Women’s Weekly Bible Challenge! I’m Lisa Ann Spencer. Today we continue in the book of Luke for Part 6 of our series on When Jesus Speaks to Women . Luke Chapter 13 Before we look at the next occurrence of Jesus speaking to a woman, I want to cover a very important parable in this chapter: Read Luke 13:6-9 For Context: This chapter begins with Jesus urging the nation of Israel to ‘repent’.  Repent in the Bible does not mean to stop sinning; it does not even mean to feel sorry for your sins.  Repent in scripture means to change your mind.  The first time the word is used in the Bible is Genesis 6:6 and it is the LORD who is repenting.  The LORD has no sin to turn from or to feel sorry for.  Jesus uses the word ‘YE’ in verses 3 and 5 when He urges repentance, because YE is plural and refers to the entire nation. The nation as a whole had to change their mind , acknowledge Jesus as Messiah, be water baptized and keep the law. ...

Hello and welcome to the Women’s Weekly Bible Challenge! I’m Lisa Ann Spencer. Today we embark on the New Testament study titled, When Jesus Speaks to Women .   This is a continuation of our study from the Old Testament, When God Speaks to Women .   Please grab your Bible and a Notebook so that you can write down the scripture references.   It is important that you verify what I teach for yourself.   I can be wrong!   When I discover that I have made an error, I update the BLOG and add notes into the description box of the video where the error was made. In fact, I want to mention a correction that I recently added into Part One of the study on Barrenness .   While it is true that Hannah and Elkanah lived in Eprathah which is in Bethlehem-Judah; Samuel is not of the tribe of Judah.   He is a Levite as documented in 1 Chronicles 6:16-28 . If you notice any errors that I have made, please point them out to me.   We are to submit ourselves t...

Hello and welcome to the Women’s Weekly Bible Challenge!   I’m Lisa Ann Spencer. Today is Part 6 of the series, When God Speaks to Women . We are going to take a brief look at Sarah .   Last week we were in the middle of looking at all the references to Hagar , but God speaks to Sarah after He spoke to Hagar the first time.   It has been 13 years since God spoke to Hagar, when we read that God spoke to Sarah.   Genesis 18:15 Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid. And he said, Nay; but thou didst laugh . So the challenge last week was to find the three spellings of Sarah in Scripture and see what we can learn from her. Using Blue Letter Bible, I found: Sarai – 17 times in 13 verses Sarah – 37 times in 31 verses Sara – 3 times in 3 verses Up to this point in the story, we have already covered ‘Sarai’.   Her name was changed in Genesis 16:15 and that name is never used again.   ‘Sarah’ is found 37 times from this poin...