The God Who Sees—a Study of Women of the Bible
Lamplighters will begin again the week of September 6, 2023. Please click on the “Register” tab to sign up for this year’s study. Come and explore the fascinating lives of some ordinary women, whose encounters with The God Who Sees transformed them into extraordinary women who impacted God’s redemptive story. We will meet ourselves face-to-face and be encouraged on our own faith journeys and finding our worth and value in God’s great story together.
Each Monday our weekly podcast, taught by our Lamplighters Teaching Team, will be uploaded.
Weekly Lessons
Introduction and Overview : September 6 : Teaching Tidbit Overview
Lesson 1 : Eve : September 13 : Teaching Tidbit: Temptation
Lesson 2 : Sarah and Hagar : September 20: Teaching Tidbit: Hospitality
Lesson 3 : Rebekah : September 27 Teaching Tidbit: Sin Patterns
Lesson 4 : Rachel and Leah : October 4 Teaching Tidbit: God’s Plan
Lesson 5 : Jochebed and Miriam : October 11– (No Teaching Tidbit Audio this lesson)
Lesson 6 : Rahab : October 18 Teaching Tidbit: Walls
Lesson 7 : Deborah and Delilah : October 25 Teaching Tidbit: Power
Lesson 8 : Ruth and Naomi : November 1 Teaching Tidbit : God, a king, a diviner and a donkey!
Lesson 9 : Ruth and Naomi : November 8 Teaching Tidbit: Relationships
Lesson 10 : Ruth and Naomi : November 15 Teaching Tidbit: Unexpected Surprises
Reconnect : January 10 Teaching Tidbit: Mary and Martha #6
Lesson 11 : Hannah : January 17 Teaching Tidbit: Prayer
Lesson 12 : Abigail : January 24 Teaching Tidbit: Influence
Lesson 13 : Widow of Zarepath and Jezebel : January 31 Teaching Tidbit: Threads
Lesson 14 : Esther : February 7 Teaching Tidbit: Wait
Lesson 15 : Esther : February 14 Teaching Tidbit: Purim (Hamantashen Cookies Recipe)
Lesson 16 : Esther : February 21 Teaching Tidbit: Silence
Lesson 17 : Elizabeth and Mary : February 28 Teaching Tidbit: Fasting
Lesson 18 : Unnamed Women : March 6 Teaching Tidbit: Being Known
Spring Break : March 13
Lesson 19 : Herodias, Salome and Mary Magdalene : March 20 Teaching Tidbit: The Marys
Holy Week : March 27
Lesson 20 : Mary and Martha : April 3 Teaching Tidbit: Resurrection
Lesson 21 : Lydia, Priscilla, Lois, and Eunice : April 10 Teaching Tidbit: Slivers of Light
Picnic : April 17
Resources for The God Who Sees—a Study of Women of the Bible
As we discovered when we began this study, a plethora of resources about women in
the Bible is available at the click of a button. Below you will find some that were
recommended to us. The “books about” and the “bible studies” blend and
intertwine—they could belong to either category. Most of the books also have
workbooks that go along with them.
**Full disclosure: we have neither previewed nor read all of these suggestions! Use at
your own risk.**
Books:
- The Women of the Bible Speak by Shannon Bream
- Fierce, Women of the Bible and Their Stories of Violence, Mercy, Bravery,
- Wisdom, Sex, and Salvation by Alice Connor
- Brave, Women of the Bible and Their Stories of Grief, Mercy, Folly, Joy, Sex, and
- Redemption by Alice Connor
- Womanist Midrash, a Reintroduction to the Women of the Torah and the Throne by Wilda C. Gafney
- Learners by Gien Karssen
- Wanderers by Gien Karssen
- Twelve Extraordinary Women by John MacArthur
- Badass Women of the Bible by Katrina Pekich-Bundy
Commentaries:
- A basic and helpful resource is a good Bible Dictionary and a good Bible Commentary!
- Nelson’s New Illustrated Bible Dictionary
- IVP’s New Bible Dictionary
- Holman’s Illustrated Bible Dictionary
- Jon Courson’s Application Commentary
- Warren Wiersbe’s Bible Commentary
- The Bible Handbook by Daily Grace Co.
Other Studies:
- She is Called, Women of the Bible study series, Vol. 1-3
- Women of the Word, Vol. 1-3 by Amy Edwards
- Her Name is Woman by Gien Karssen
- Ten Women of the Bible by Max Lucado
- Bad Girls of the Bible, Vol. 1-3 by Liz Curtis Higgs,
