Do you know who Jael is? After the first few weeks of more familiar Bible stories, this week we have a truly obscure character! Jael This story is one of allies, friends, traitors, mixed loyalties, women with conviction, and a…

We don’t talk about Joseph much. Of course, every school-aged child in a Sunday school class learns that he was a carpenter. And certainly, Jesus is the star of the show. But God chose and created Joseph specifically to be…

Last week, when I introduced the paralytic man lowered through the roof, I mentioned that he might be not as obscure a character as some of the others in this series. I didn’t realize we were going to look at…

This week’s obscure character is the paralytic man with the great friends we read about in the second chapter of Mark. This is probably a more familiar story than other obscure characters we’ll study in this series! Scripture Reading: Mark…