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In studying the Word of God, it is always helpful to try to put yourself in the shoes of the person or people in the story at hand. The encounter of the Samaritan woman with Jesus at Jacob’s well is certainly no exception. This week, we explore what possibly motivated her to talk to him…

One of the most blessed things for a Christian is the surety that our Lord knows our sorrows and our griefs. Today, we study in John 4 about how our Lord was wearied with his journey. I’m so glad we have a Lord who is acquainted with our grief!

For the first podcast of 2026, we’re looking a bit more closely at where the situation with the Samaritan woman at the well occurs. The Bible says it was near the parcel of ground Jacob gave to Joseph. This is all fine and good, but as we look back in the Scriptures we’ll see that…

If we’re going to study the Samaritan woman at the well thoroughly, we need to learn a bit about the Samaritans in general. We go back to 2 Kings 17 to pick up the story of how the Samaritans came to be.

This Christmas season, as we celebrate the Gift of God in the man Christ Jesus, the Lord sent me around to an unusual scripture, that in John chapter 4 dealing with the Samaritan woman at the well. True enough, the story tells us that she was a concubine (the man she lived with was not…

As I posted a couple of days ago, I have been dreading dealing with this scripture. We didn’t finish from last week, though. There’s a much bigger issue with concubinage that we didn’t cover last time, and today in part two we cover it. As I wrote last time, this scripture just makes me angry:…