Bilhah and Zilpah were the handmaidens (servants) of the patriarch Jacob’s wives, Leah and Rachel. Rachel, who was Jacob’s favorite wife, had not been blessed with children. While Leah, Rachel’s older sister, had given birth to four sons. Genesis 30 records that, “…when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister;…
When my husband and I were first married the best advice we got from our parents was, “Always say a prayer together before discussing money.” We have always tried to follow that counsel and not only has it helped us manage our household better, but it was also the first way we learned to counsel…
Before I begin my series on birth stories from the scriptures I feel like I need to address the topic of infertility. Most of the stories about birth in the scriptures revolve around women’s inability to have children. In fact I’d say that the trial of infertility is one that God has given to some…
Image Source Last week in Sunday School we talked about the Abrahamic covenant, the promises that God makes to Abraham about his posterity in Genesis 17. We know that God does not just make covenants with men but that he also makes them with women and as we talked I couldn’t help but wonder where…