Like us, they were human beings who faltered and struggled to do their best. Not all of these mothers and daughters in the Bible were paragons of virtue. Through these stories, Shannon explains the intimate connection between faith and family-and how God’s unexpected agenda can redefine the way we think about family. And a daughter, Michal, struggled to keep her faithless father, Saul, from sin, while battling pride in herself. Another biblical mother, Rebekah, made terrible choices in an attempt to ensure her son’s place in history. Could Jochebed have imagined that God’s actual design for her son involved flight into exile and danger? And yet this was all part of the master plan to deliver Israel from slavery. She tells the story of Jochebed, a mother who took enormous risks to protect her son, Moses, from Pharaoh.
But what does it actually look like to live it out? In The Mothers and Daughters of the Bible Speak, Shannon Bream examines the lives of biblical women to see how God’s plans can turn our worlds upside down. “Have faith” is a phrase we hear all the time.
God always keeps His promises, but not always in the way we expect….
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