God Values Family Trees and Genealogies more than we do

Study Genealogies to Show Thyself Approved. 1 Chronicles 1:1.

Image: In 1946, Norman Rockwell produced this painting for the Saturday Evening Post following his visit to a one-room schoolhouse in Carroll County, Georgia. My son’s first-grade class learned two things “by heart.” They learned to sing the song of the U.S. presidents, and they used a sort of rhythmic chant to help them learnContinue reading “Study Genealogies to Show Thyself Approved. 1 Chronicles 1:1.”

FAMILY LINES. 1 Chronicles 23-26.

The Bible contains numerous genealogies—they make dull reading until you use imagination to see further. I ask myself what God is up to, why He chooses certain families. The first, most obvious lesson when reading genealogies is: GOD CARES MORE ABOUT FAMILY TREES/HERITAGE THAN WE DO. Clearly these things are important (and both Moses andContinue reading “FAMILY LINES. 1 Chronicles 23-26.”