Tag Archives: Family Trees

DO THESE SURNAMES MEAN ANYTHING? 1 Peter 1:18-19;2

(I wrote this devotional for my own children.) Do these surnames mean anything to you? Wales. Connolly. Kemp. Courtney. Fletcher. Walker. O’Leary. Thompson. Davis. McBride. Womack. McCoy. Middleton. Washington. Dixon. Tucker. Campbell. Pope. Childers. Puckett. Drinkwater. Simpson. Cox. Brickers. Carter. Anderson. Presley. Claiborne. Woodson. Smith. Dandridge. Dennis. These are ancestral names of my grandfather WillieContinue reading “DO THESE SURNAMES MEAN ANYTHING? 1 Peter 1:18-19;2”

What’s With All These Ancestors and Family Trees? Ezra 2:59-62.

Americans do many things well: Space travel, radio and television transmissions, weather forecasting, computers, automobiles, jet flight, modern medicine, antibiotics. We have stopped polio in its tracks and rid the world of smallpox. But Ancient Israel did one thing better: RECORD KEEPING. The Bible includes the most detailed records of so many things. The writersContinue reading “What’s With All These Ancestors and Family Trees? Ezra 2:59-62.”

ANCESTOR WORSHIP. Ezekiel 43:7,9.

There is an interesting line in Alex Haley’s novel ROOTS. When the author travels to West Africa, he discovers that the tribe of his ancestors requires children to be able to recite their ancestry to ten generations. But ten generations would include over a thousand people.  It’s understood that children were memorizing only one branchContinue reading “ANCESTOR WORSHIP. Ezekiel 43:7,9.”

No One Will Remember You.

I watched a show by ancestry[dot]com. The host took people through their family trees. One had a cousin who had awarded to President Kennedy the keys to Mexico City. It was pretty amazing to see who they were related to—but also sad that it could be forgotten so quickly. And you and I have amazingContinue reading “No One Will Remember You.”