Sunday Thoughts: Great Moms of the Bible

My Mother's Day column from last Sunday

Last week’s Sunday Thoughts column was a special Mother’s Day edition. I hope you enjoy it.

Since it’s Mother’s Day, I thought I’d share a little bit about mothers in the Bible. There are plenty of incredible moms in the Bible, and there are lessons we can learn from them.

Both the Old and New Testaments share stories of mothers who waited long past their prime to have babies that fulfilled God’s promises. In Genesis, Sarah was 90 years old when she gave birth to Isaac, the son through whom God pledged to start the nation of Israel, while in the Gospel of Luke, Elizabeth was well past childbearing years — though the Bible doesn’t give her exact age — when she gave birth to John the Baptist, whose God-given purpose was to prepare the way for Jesus.

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