Author: Wendy Reaume (Wendy Reaume)

When I see someone struggling to find joy in their life, I am so quick to want to point out how their glass is half full, not half empty.  I’m not comfortable with their despair and want to fix it.  When my kids complain, I jump right in and remind them of how they have...

Then a voice said to him, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”  He replied, “I have been very zealous for the Lord God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant, torn down your altars, and put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me too.”...

Now Ahab told Jezebel [his wife] everything Elijah had done and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. 2 So Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah to say, “May the gods deal with me, be it ever so severely, if by this time tomorrow I do not make your life like that of one of them.” 3 Elijah...

Over the past two years of the pandemic, people have struggled with depression and anxiety more than usual. News reports have stressed the need for more resources to deal with the mounting number of struggling people. In talking with friends, I have realized Christians are also facing emotional stress. Through this week, Wendy Reaume, a...

By Wendy Reaume It is so very easy to beat ourselves up.  It is so easy to see where we have fallen short or utterly failed.  It is much easier to see how we are NOT like Christ than where we reflect His image.  But what about GRACE?  Let me take you down memory lane...

By Wendy Reaume His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. (2 Peter 1:3) This is a pretty cool verse.  I think most of us desire to live a godly life.  We aren’t hyped up and...

By Wendy Reaume Exodus 16: 4,5,11,12 4 Then the Lord said to Moses, “I will rain down bread from heaven for you. The people are to go out each day and gather enough for that day. In this way I will test them and see whether they will follow my instructions. 5 On the sixth day they are to prepare what they...

By Wendy Reaume Exodus 16:1-3 16 The whole Israelite community set out from Elim and came to the Desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had come out of Egypt. 2 In the desert the whole community grumbled against Moses and Aaron. 3 The Israelites said to them, “If...

By Wendy Reaume “There was also a prophetess, Anna, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher.  She was very old; she had lived with her husband seven years after her marriage, and then was a widow until she was eighty-four.  She never left the temple but worshiped night and day, fasting and praying. ...

By Wendy Reaume As we look at the lives of women in the Christmas story, the Gospel of Matthew and Luke tell of the birth of Christ and introduce us to some key players.  Mary, the mother of Jesus is definitely a key player. According to Jewish law and tradition, girls were usually engaged between...

By Wendy Reaume We are first introduced to Elizabeth, an aunt to Mary and great aunt to Jesus in the first chapter of the book of Luke.  “In the time of Herod king of Judea there was a priest named Zechariah who belonged to the priestly division of Abijah; his wife Elizabeth was also a...

By Wendy Reaume While we read through the Christmas story, we will look at times the angels appeared.  We see them appear 3 different times, but the first time is to announce to Zechariah the birth of John the Baptist.   “ Then an angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing at the right side of the...

If you had a chance to attend Sunday School as a kid, you probably know the story of Joshua and the Walls of Jericho.  Most military strategists would concur that you can’t win a battle with a horn.  But in the Old Testament God often did strange things to win battles.  He did this so...

We have just looked at the sad and tragic story of David’s daughter Tamar, and today’s devotional is about one of King David’s wives; Bathsheba, the infamous woman bathing on the roof within sight of the palace, and eventual mother to King Solomon.  Her story is found in 2 Samuel 11. “In the spring, at...

There are only five women mentioned in the genealogy of Jesus as recorded in Matthew 1.  They are Tamar, Ruth, Rahab, Bathsheba and Mary.  In the recorded and mentioned line of Christ we have an adulterous woman (perhaps by no choice of her own), a prostitute, a foreigner who is a  non-believer and has married...

Our second woman this week is Tamar1.  Her father is King David; the same David who killed Goliath, ran from Saul and became King of Israel and the father of Solomon.  Because David had many wives, he had many children who were half- brothers and sisters to each other.  In each case, David was their...

This week our devotions are written by Wendy Reaume. We’re excited she’s back and writing for us again. Eve is our first woman of the Old Testament this week.  The first woman and the last creative act of God the Father during creation.  “But for Adam no suitable helper was found.  So, the LORD God...

Our grandmother from yesterday’s Bible passage was a horrible woman.  Her concern was very much for herself to the point of seeking out her grandsons and destroying them so she could have the throne. It should not surprise us to find that her mother is none other than Jezebel of the Old Testament.  Queen Jezebel...

Today’s devotional comes from a Biblical soap opera.  In this real-life account, we meet a woman of the Old Testament who does just the opposite of yesterday’s sisters.  This woman has a chance to move up in the world but goes to great lengths to see that position goes to a male instead. The full...

This week we are focusing on women of the Old Testament. Some will be familiar to you, like Abigail, and others may be new to you, including a woman named ‘Noah.’   These 5 sisters are our next women of the Old Testament and they are found in Numbers 27, just proceeding the commissioning ceremony...