In this series, I wrote twenty letters to each person in the “cloud of witnesses” named in Hebrews 11:1–32. It’s a journey through Genesis, Exodus and Judges. The people are:
- Abel
- Enoch
- Noah
- Abram (Abraham aged 80)
- Sarah
- Abraham (aged 140)
- Isaac
- Jacob
- Joseph
- Jochebed (Moses’s mother)
- Moses (as a young man)
- Moses (after the Exodus)
- Joshua
- Rahab
- Gideon
- Barak (and Deborah)
- Samson
- Jephthah (and his daughter)
- David
- Samuel
I write about how I encountered each of their stories, the questions I don’t yet have answered, and the things that I still wrestle with. In the process of writing these letters, I’ve grown a new appreciation of who each of them was as a person and what it might mean to embody their faith today.
They can be read as short introductions to these biblical characters or as reflections for use in private or public worship. All posts have printer-friendly PDF and direct print options at the bottom.
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