Theologizer

“Ruth: Messianic ‘Mother'” is a wonderful story of love and redemption, and of God ordering the affairs of the line from which the Jesse Tree would sprout.

“Gideon, Unlikely Hero” is a story that shows us that the only true hero in the grand narrative of redemption is God. But God will make use of even the weakest agent who obeys him.

“Rahab” is the Jesse Tree episode that introduces us to the second of three women that we’ll see in Matthew’s genealogy of Jesus.

“Balaam’s Messianic Vision” is one of the strangest stories in the Jesse Tree series for Advent–one of the strangest in the Old Testament, for that matter.

“Sinai” is the episode in Israel’s history where God makes a covenant with the people that he has delivered and will lead into “rest.”

“Moses: Servant Leader” provided Israel with leadership that would eventually find fulfillment through the Jesse Tree.

“Judah: Royal Promise,” a patriarchal blessing that pushes the royal promise forward even before the Jesse Tree took root.

“Joseph: God’s Providence” shows us one of the ancestors in the line of the Jesse Tree who believed in the promise of Roman 8:28 even before it was written.

“Assurance: Jacob’s Ladder,” tells the story of God assuring Jacob at Beth El, the earthly front porch of heaven.

“Abraham’s Obedience” in offering Isaac looked like the “Jesse Tree” would never even taken root, but God was faithful to provide a sacrifice.