Women Disciples: Where Your Faith Meets Movement

Jenn Smith Chen

Category: New Testament

11 Dec
New Testament Women in the Bible

Mary: From Worship to Steady Faith

by Jenn Smith Chen
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The best Christmas joke that has been circulating for some time is a critique of the song, “Mary, Did You Know?” The beloved song has...
03 Dec
New Testament Women in the Bible

Mary: A Promise Fulfilled

by Jenn Smith Chen
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A young, honorable, brown teenager lived on her ancestor’s land that was occupied by the most powerful government in the world at the time. Mary...
12 Nov
2020 Discipleship New Testament Racial Reconciliation

Peter’s Bias Journey

by Jenn Smith Chen
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When I was a little girl growing up in Sunday school, I never quite understood why Peter never seemed to get it together. Abiding by...
05 Nov
Bible Discipleship New Testament Racial Reconciliation

Listening and Loving, Lessons from Acts 6

by Jenn Smith Chen
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2020 has been a squeezing year. There has been so much loss of life, normalcy, friendship. As though for a rolled up tube of toothpaste,...
09 Apr
Discipleship Jesus New Testament Women in the Bible

Women—Disciples to the End

by Jenn Smith Chen
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Unremitting darkness. Loud lies repeating in your mind. Truth evasive. Hate heaped. Love removed. Catch your breath. But no. Relentless. No way out. No. Hope....
19 Mar
Discipleship New Testament Spiritual Formation

Gentleness and Peace in COVID19

by Jenn Smith Chen
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March is Women’s History Month, and my plan was to spend the month highlighting women from church history; then COVID19 finally came to the United...
26 Dec
New Testament Women in Ministry Women in the Bible

The Women of Christmas: Anna

by Jenn Smith Chen
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As a young child, I remember learning about the Christmas prophetic pair in the Gospel of Luke, Simon and Anna. Both were elated at Jesus’...
19 Dec
New Testament Women in the Bible

The Women of Christmas: Elizabeth

by Jenn Smith Chen
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The most common pregnancy is an unplanned one. Or at least it seems that way, especially when you’re trying for a baby, and others get...
12 Dec
New Testament Women in the Bible

The Women of Christmas: Mary

by Jenn Smith Chen
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I twisted a lone strand of hay as I knelt beside the manger. In a role without lines, I played one of the most important...
20 May
Church Ministry New Testament

God Isn’t Finished Yet

by Jenn Smith Chen
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“I’m so glad you and Eric are a part of Young Adults,” a young woman told me enthusiastically, “We need older people here for wisdom.”...