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What record will we leave for future generations?

Posted on December 5, 2022December 4, 2022 by Marianna Richardson

Week Twenty Nine:2 Kings 17–25
King Hezekiah and his son King Manasseh were two kings who were opposites in their desires and their reliance on the Lord. The choices they made had consequences for generations after them. Read More

Preparing the World for Christ

Posted on December 4, 2022 by Christine Thackeray

Week Zero: Preview
The Old Testament ends happily ever after. The people of God are freed from Babylon by Cyrus the Great who had a dream in which the Lord promises him, “The LORD God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.”Read More

Humble Down! Or Else!

Posted on November 20, 2022November 17, 2022 by Annette Marie Lantos Tillemann-Dick

Week Forty Nine: Nahum; Habakkuk; Zephaniah
Zephaniah. Humble Down! Or else: Zephaniah, the Black Prophet of the Lord Read More

The Prophesied birthplace

Posted on November 13, 2022November 16, 2022 by Annette Marie Lantos Tillemann-Dick

Week Forty Eight: Jonah; Micah
Nestled in the fifth chapter of the Book of Micah, right in the first couple of verses, is an iconic revelation. Micah 5:1 seems to call Israel to attention, "Now, gather thyself in troops, oh daughter of troops!" Then, after warning of yet another humiliating blow to the judges of Israel, a revelation of enormous import is offered in Micah 5:2... Read More

Nebuchadnezzar the Bad parent

Posted on October 23, 2022November 19, 2022 by Annette Marie Lantos Tillemann-Dick

Week Forty Five: Daniel 1–6
The experience reported in Daniel 3 joins an impressive array of awe inspiring, and faith-promoting experiences in the Old Testament. A number involve fire, water and air. Noah, the flood and rainbow; Moses…the parting of the Red Sea and manna from the sky; Elijah, fire falling from heaven to consume his water soaked offering and Elijah ascending to heaven in a chariot of fire. These miracles were certainly memorable.Read More

Peace to the Righteous

Posted on September 18, 2022November 18, 2022 by Annette Marie Lantos Tillemann-Dick

Week Forty: Isaiah 50-57
The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.(Isaiah 57:1, KJV)Read More

Isaiah, The Poetic power to CHANGE lives

Posted on September 11, 2022November 18, 2022 by Annette Marie Lantos Tillemann-Dick

Week Thirty Eight: Isaiah 13–14; 24–30; 35
When first reading the Book of Mormon as a 19 year old investigating the church, I felt like rejoicing with Nephi as he declared: "Yea, and my soul delighteth in the words of Isaiah, for I came out from Jerusalem, and mine eye hath beheld the things of the Jews and I know that the Jews do understand the things of the prophets, and there is none other people that understands the things that were spoken unto the Jews like unto them…"a href = "https://womenreadthebible.com/?p=747">Read More

For they that be with us…

Posted on June 26, 2022December 5, 2022 by Marianna Richardson

Week Twenty Eight: 2 Kings 2–7
Have you ever been depressed and then felt unseen arms wrap around you in love? Or have you ever been in a hopeless situation and felt inspiration beyond your own to figure out a solution? The veil is sometimes very thin when we are in need. Loved ones beyond the veil do help and support us in our life’s trials. Read More

How do you hear Him?

Posted on June 19, 2022December 4, 2022 by Marianna Richardson

Week Twenty Seven: 1 Kings 17–19
Reading the daily news reminds us that we live in a day when there “shall be heard of wars and rumors of wars and the whole earth shall be in commotion and men’s hearts shall fail them…”[i] Paul saw our day and described it perfectly: “This know also that in the last days perilous times shall come.Read More

Judge Not that ye be not judged

Posted on June 12, 2022December 4, 2022 by Marianna Richardson

Week Twenty SIx:2 Samuel 5–7; 11–12; 1 Kings 3; 8; 11
Have you every speculated, as an outsider looking into other’s affairs, about who is the guilty party of an argument, a divorce, or an adulterous relationship? It’s easy to judge others when we only see the outward results of people’s actions rather than their hearts. Read More

What record will we leave for future generations?
by Marianna Richardson
Week Twenty Nine:2 Kings 17–25
King Hezekiah and his son King Manasseh were two kings who were opposites in their desires and their reliance on the Lord. The choices they made had consequences for generations after them. Read More
Preparing the World for Christ
by Christine Thackeray
Week Zero: Preview
The Old Testament ends happily ever after. The people of God are freed from Babylon by Cyrus the Great who had a dream in which the Lord promises him, “The LORD God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.”Read More
Humble Down! Or Else!
by Annette Marie Lantos Tillemann-Dick
Week Forty Nine: Nahum; Habakkuk; Zephaniah
Zephaniah. Humble Down! Or else: Zephaniah, the Black Prophet of the Lord Read More
The Prophesied birthplace
by Annette Marie Lantos Tillemann-Dick
Week Forty Eight: Jonah; Micah
Nestled in the fifth chapter of the Book of Micah, right in the first couple of verses, is an iconic revelation. Micah 5:1 seems to call Israel to attention, "Now, gather thyself in troops, oh daughter of troops!" Then, after warning of yet another humiliating blow to the judges of Israel, a revelation of enormous import is offered in Micah 5:2... Read More
Nebuchadnezzar the Bad parent
by Annette Marie Lantos Tillemann-Dick
Week Forty Five: Daniel 1–6
The experience reported in Daniel 3 joins an impressive array of awe inspiring, and faith-promoting experiences in the Old Testament. A number involve fire, water and air. Noah, the flood and rainbow; Moses…the parting of the Red Sea and manna from the sky; Elijah, fire falling from heaven to consume his water soaked offering and Elijah ascending to heaven in a chariot of fire. These miracles were certainly memorable.Read More
Peace to the Righteous
by Annette Marie Lantos Tillemann-Dick
Week Forty: Isaiah 50-57
The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.(Isaiah 57:1, KJV)Read More
Isaiah, The Poetic power to CHANGE lives
by Annette Marie Lantos Tillemann-Dick
Week Thirty Eight: Isaiah 13–14; 24–30; 35
When first reading the Book of Mormon as a 19 year old investigating the church, I felt like rejoicing with Nephi as he declared: "Yea, and my soul delighteth in the words of Isaiah, for I came out from Jerusalem, and mine eye hath beheld the things of the Jews and I know that the Jews do understand the things of the prophets, and there is none other people that understands the things that were spoken unto the Jews like unto them…"a href = "https://womenreadthebible.com/?p=747">Read More
For they that be with us…
by Marianna Richardson
Week Twenty Eight: 2 Kings 2–7
Have you ever been depressed and then felt unseen arms wrap around you in love? Or have you ever been in a hopeless situation and felt inspiration beyond your own to figure out a solution? The veil is sometimes very thin when we are in need. Loved ones beyond the veil do help and support us in our life’s trials. Read More
How do you hear Him?
by Marianna Richardson
Week Twenty Seven: 1 Kings 17–19
Reading the daily news reminds us that we live in a day when there “shall be heard of wars and rumors of wars and the whole earth shall be in commotion and men’s hearts shall fail them…”[i] Paul saw our day and described it perfectly: “This know also that in the last days perilous times shall come.Read More
Judge Not that ye be not judged
by Marianna Richardson
Week Twenty SIx:2 Samuel 5–7; 11–12; 1 Kings 3; 8; 11
Have you every speculated, as an outsider looking into other’s affairs, about who is the guilty party of an argument, a divorce, or an adulterous relationship? It’s easy to judge others when we only see the outward results of people’s actions rather than their hearts. Read More
Saul’s initial humility and gaining a new heart
by Marianna Richardson
Week Twenty Five: 1 Samuel 8–10; 13; 15–18
A New York Times article characterized the NFL Draft as involving many players filled with hubris rather than with the more desirable trait of humility. David Leonhardt pointed out that NFL teams do a “miserable job” of predicting the best players.Read More
The importance of a shoe
by Marianna Richardson
Week Twenty Four: Ruth; 1 Samuel 1–3
Do you have any traditions in your family that are unique or have a symbolic meaning? At Easter, we would decorate Easter eggs and then have an egg bashing contest to see whose egg was the strongest.Read More
The Israelites Pride Cycle
by Marianna Richardson
Week Twenty Three: Judges 3:12-31; Judges 4
In the Book of Mormon, we read about the pride cycle of the Nephites. The Lord would bless the Nephites for their righteousness; then, pride would set in. Adversities would come, so they would humble themselves and cry unto the Lord for help.Read More
Jericho and Rahab
by Marianna Richardson
Week Twenty Two: Joshua 1–8; 23–24
Rahab, the harlot of Jericho, maybe a woman you might want to judge for her mistakes, as in the earlier story of Tamar, the daughter-in-law of Judah. Some scholars think she might have been an innkeeper; other scholars think she probably was a prostitute, which is why she could so easily hide two men in her apartment without any trouble. Read More
Lessons learned in the Wilderness
by Marianna Richardson
Week Twenty One: Deuteronomy 6–8; 15; 18; 29–30; 34
Malcolm Gladwell made the 10,000-hour rule a big hit with the simple concept that mastery of a skill comes after someone practices it for 10,000 hours. The children of Israel were under the tutelage of the Lord for 40 years. Calculating their learning time, keeping it to only 12 hours per day, the children of Israel experienced 175,200 hours of learning in the wilderness. Hopefully, the children of Israel obtained mastery in following the law and following the Lord. Read More
Murmuring and the Quail
by Marianna Richardson
Week Twenty: Numbers 11–14; 20–24
When we are initially given blessings from the Lord, we are so often thankful. As time goes by, however, we sometimes begin to question whether it was really the blessing we wanted, and we desire even more. We forget how grateful we were with what we were originally given by the Lord... Read More
Ten Commandments for Us
by Annette Marie Lantos Tillemann-Dick
Week Seventeen: Exodus 18–20
When my father began teaching economics in the 1950's he was befriended by a humanities professor named Sterling Wheelwright. Professor Wheelwright and his wife Edna adopted our family. We called them Uncle Sterling and Auntie Edna and treasured the idea that we had an uncle and auntie because, in fact, we had no living relatives nearby due to the Holocaust...Read More
Jethro’s Good Advice
by Marianna Richardson
Week Seventeen: Exodus 18–20
Most of us have received spiritual guidance from someone we have looked up to. This could be a parent, a church leader or even an in-law. Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, not only took Moses in when he was lost in the wilderness but taught him the gospel and ordained him to the Melchizedek Priesthood.[i] Armed with this power, Moses climbed Mt. Sinai alone to face the burning bush and receive the direction to return to Egypt...Read More
Passover, The Feast of Tabernacles and General Conference
by Christine Thackeray
Week Fourteen: Exodus 7–13
The last plague of Egypt was conditional. The house of Israel could be spared the death of their first born if they would follow the instructions of the prophet. Moses told the people to sacrifice a lamb without blemish and put its blood “…on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.” (Exodus 12:7-9) The feast beginning that night would last for a week and would be a memorial of the miracle the Lord had done on their behalf “therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance forever.”...Read More
Ten Plagues or Ten Commandments
by Marianna Richardson
Week Fourteen: Exodus 7–13
Moses at age 80 and Aaron at age 83 were sent by God to speak to Pharaoh, asking the ruler to allow the children of Israel to leave the land of Egypt and worship Jehovah. But this was going to be a long and arduous process for the Egyptians because of the hardened heart of Pharaoh. In the King James version, the Lord said, “And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt... Read More
The Child Moses and the Women who Saved Him
by Marianna Richardson
Week Thirteen: Exodus 1–6
Moses was one of the “mightiest men of God in all time…. He walked and talked with God, received of divine glory while yet in morality, was called a son of God, and was in the similitude of the Only Begotten.”[i] Moses’ life was graced by righteous women who would protect, teach, and save him from destruction...Read More
Levi’s Grandson, Mushi
by Annette Marie Lantos Tillemann-Dick
Week Thirteen: Exodus 1–6
Mushi was the name of the father of my first childhood friend. The Silvers lived through the gate Mushi put in the fence separating our backyard on Cherry Street from theirs on Chestnut Street. Once I asked where his funny nickname came from and was surprised when he said, "from the Bible." Years later, after living in Israel, I figured Mushi must be a modified form of Moshe which is Hebrew for "Moses."... Read More
The Family of Jacob, Together at Last
by Annette Marie Lantos Tillemann-Dick
Week Twelve: Genesis 42–50
It's family reunion time in Genesis Chapters 45 and 46. Like most family reunions, attendees, food, travel arrangements, accommodations, lists, love and forgiveness are all part of the process... Read More
Justice and Mercy: Joseph and His Brothers
by Marianna Richardson
Week Twelve: Genesis 42–50
Life is often unfair. Strangers and family members sometimes treat us dishonestly, maliciously, and angrily. How do we respond? What do we feel in our hearts towards these people? President Uchtdorf pointed out “Strained and broken relationships are as old as humankind itself. …Since those first days the spirit of envy and hatred has led to some of the most tragic stories in history... Read More
Judging Tamar
by Marianna Richardson
Week Eleven: Genesis 37–41
As a young single adult in college, I remember grocery shopping and noticing a young mom with many preschoolers. Two toddlers were fighting in the shopping cart while the baby in the carrier was crying. A judgmental thought came into my mind: Why wasn’t this mother taking better care of her children? Five years later, I was in the same situation as that young mom with two fighting toddlers and a newborn crying in a carrier, and my judgmental thought came vividly back to my mind...Read More
The Grasp of Potiphar’s Wife
by Christine Thackeray
Week Eleven: Genesis 37–41
After Joseph is sold into Egypt, he becomes a servant in Potiphar’s house. Because “the Lord was with Joseph” (Gen 39:2), Potiphar puts him in charge. In fact, he hands all he has to Joseph and doesn’t even know what he has, “save the bread he did eat.” That’s how much Potiphar trusts Joseph...Read More
Leah: Enduring Well
by Christine Thackeray
Week Ten: Genesis 28–33
The first time Jacob met Rachel it seemed like love at first sight. After seeing his cousin with her father’s sheep, he, much like his mother Rebekah had, watered the flock of his intended family. Then it says, “Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.” (Gen. 29:11) One could assume he wept for joy... Read More
Rebecca, Biblical Wonder Woman
by Annette Marie Lantos Tillemann-Dick
Week Nine:Genesis 24–27
As Abraham draws close to death, he asks his faithful foreman who manages all he has (and it's a lot!) to swear to him most solemnly, that he will return to Abraham's old home in Haran and find there, among Abraham's own people, an appropriate wife for Isaac. Abraham did NOT want his son to marry a daughter of the Canaanites... Read More
Is Anything Too Hard for the Lord?
by Marianna Richardson
Week Four: Genesis 18–23
When the Lord calls me to do something difficult, the thought crosses my mind, “There is no way that I can do that!” But I move forward, struggling ahead with the Lord by my side. With His help, my heart fills with His hope that His works will be accomplished through me, a weak and simple vessel...Read More
Why I Love “The Begats”
by Annette Marie Lantos Tillemann-Dick
Week Four: Genesis 5; Moses 6
When I realized no one had chosen to present the genealogies in Genesis 5 and Moses 6, I pounced. Why on earth would anyone be itching to dig into those interminable lists of names? Let me explain with a not-so-brief digression— Read More
Ambrosia, The Fountain of Youth and The Tree of Life
by Christine Thackeray
Week Two: Genesis 1–2; Moses 2–3; Abraham 4–5
I love studying the Bible using the sacred texts in conjunction with ancient secular histories and literary writings, religious scholar, and archeological discoveries. But, pre-flood, very few of those outside witnesses exist. Still, certain ideas and events were so stunning that they were kept alive within multiple cultures through the ages, told from father to son, or mother to daughter, until they emerged as legend. One such example is the tree of life and fountain of living water from the Garden of Eden... Read More
In the Beginning
by Marianna Richardson
Week One: Moses 1; Abraham 3
Art history is a passion of mine. When I view a work of art, it can be useful to utilize many different perspectives. Often, I look at a painting or sculpture from the side, from the other side, from the top, and from the bottom. Each time, I will see something different...Read More