Tag: God’s Golden Girls

Ruth 1:20 “Don’t call me Naomi,” she told them. “Call me Mara, because the Almighty has made my life very bitter. Hebrew names were not just the identity of the person but there was history behind the name. The name ‘Naomi’ means “pleasantness” or “lovely” but a series of bad decisions made Naomi dislike the...

Luke 8:2-3 Also some women who had been cured of evil spirits and diseases: Mary (called Magdalene) from whom seven demons had come out; Joanna the wife of Chuza, the manager of Herod’s household; Susanna; and many others. These women were helping to support them out of their own means. There is a lot of...

Acts 12:13-14 Peter knocked at the outer entrance, and a servant named Rhoda came to answer the door. When she recognized Peter’s voice, she was so overjoyed she ran back without opening it and exclaimed, “Peter is at the door!” The Greek name Rhoda means rose. Rhoda was a servant girl in the house of...

Acts 9:36-37  In Joppa there was a disciple named Tabitha (in Greek her name is Dorcas); she was always doing good and helping the poor. About that time she became sick and died, and her body was washed and placed in an upstairs room. Dorcas was the Greek name of the Hellenistic Jew Tabitha. Hellenistic...

Proverbs 14:1 “The wise woman builds her house, but the foolish pulls it down with her hands.” A wise woman is not flawless, she has been forgiven; she is not perfect, she has been purified. The word of God says, ‘a wise woman builds her house’. It does not say a prudent and frugal man builds his...

Exodus 2:1 Now a man of the tribe of Levi married a Levite woman, and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him for three months. An account of the birth of Moses introduces his parents as a Levi man and a...