Brick Ruth, Chapter 4

Ruth 4 Inspired by Brendan Powell Smith’s work with the Brick Bible, my dad and I decided to use the Lego blocks we had at our disposal to create one of the stories that don’t appear in Smith’s work.

Brick Ruth, Chapter 3

Ruth 3 Inspired by Brendan Powell Smith’s work with the Brick Bible, my dad and I decided to use the Lego blocks we had at our disposal to create one of the stories that don’t appear in Smith’s work.

Brick Ruth, Chapter 2

So she went out, entered a field and began to glean behind the harvesters. As it turned out, she was working in a field belonging to Boaz, who was from the clan of Elimelech. Ruth 2 Inspired by Brendan Powell Smith’s work with the Brick Bible, my dad and I decided to use the Lego […]

Brick Ruth, Chapter 1

After they had lived there about ten years, both Mahlon and Kilion also died, and Naomi was left without her two sons and her husband. Ruth 1 Inspired by Brendan Powell Smith’s work with the Brick Bible, my dad and I decided to use the Lego blocks we had at our disposal to create one […]

Samuel

I was what you might call a “miracle baby.” My mom couldn’t have a baby. She was teased because other women had babies, but she had none. She prayed and prayed and prayed. Then priests teased her because she prayed so hard. But God heard her. And he gave her me. She named me Samuel, […]

The Shunammite Woman

Hidden within the politics and violence of 1st and 2nd Kings stands a bold, shrewd, and unnamed woman. Assertiveness In chapter 4, she is described as a “well-to-do woman,” and she used her resources to host the prophet Elisha any time he was in Shunem (v. 8). Eventually, she wanted to make a guest room […]

Isaiah’s Leader

Someday I will be a ruler, And my reign will be totally peaceful. Long ago the LORD God showed his prophet Isaiah What his coming Kingdom would be like. I am a child of Adam and Eve, Like you. Long ago, our parents lived in peaceful paradise With the beasts of the field and the […]

Woman with the Lost Coin

“Or suppose a woman has ten silver coins and loses one. Doesn’t she light a lamp, sweep the house and search carefully until she finds it? And when she finds it, she calls her friends and neighbors together and says, ‘Rejoice with me; I have found my lost coin.’ In the same way, I tell […]

King Josiah

I was eight years old when I began to reign. My grandpa Manasseh began to reign when he was twelve. History remembers him as Judah’s most evil king. But long before he bought into the practices of our surrounding nations, worshiped the stars, practiced sorcery, defiled God’s temple, and sacrificed his sons in the fire, […]

Miriam

It was very strange watching my mother put my brother into the river. I was six years old then, and curious. My mom and dad never talked about it, but I knew that Hebrew babies were in trouble. We stopped celebrating when a baby was born. I wasn’t allowed to talk about my new brother […]