Trees in Scripture
April 2021 Issue
About the author — Julia Prins Vanderveen
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Betrayal
Julia Prins Vanderveen
Matthew 26:36-46
Jesus went with his disciples to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to them, “Sit here while I go over there...Read →
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A Tree Cut Off
Julia Prins Vanderveen
Luke 23:26-49
“If people do these things when the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?”Read →
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Sorrowful Saturday
Julia Prins Vanderveen
Acts 5:29-39
“We must obey God rather than any human authority. The God of our ancestors raised up Jesus, whom you had killed by...Read →
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Thinking He Was the Gardener
Julia Prins Vanderveen
John 20:1-18
Thinking he was the gardener, she said, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him. . . .”Read →
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Trees of Every Kind
Julia Prins Vanderveen
Genesis 1:9-13, 27-31; 2:8-9
God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground—trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food.Read →
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In the Middle of the Garden
Julia Prins Vanderveen
Genesis 2:8-9
In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.Read →
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Possible Choices
Julia Prins Vanderveen
Genesis 3:1-20
“But God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden. . . .’”Read →
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Near the Great Trees
Julia Prins Vanderveen
Genesis 13
So Abram went to live near the great trees of Mamre at Hebron. . . . There he built an altar to the Lord.Read →
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Place of Worship and Prayer
Julia Prins Vanderveen
Genesis 21:22-34
Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called on the name of the Lord, the Eternal God.Read →
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Little, Extraordinary Things
Julia Prins Vanderveen
Exodus 3:1-12
Moses thought, “I will go over and see this strange sight—why the bush does not burn up.”Read →
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Wood and Water
Julia Prins Vanderveen
Exodus 15:22-27
They came to Elim, where there were twelve springs and seventy palm trees, and they camped there by the water.Read →
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The Best Yet to Come
Julia Prins Vanderveen
Exodus 37:1-2, 10-11, 17-28
On the lampstand were four cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms. . . .Read →
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Restraint
Julia Prins Vanderveen
Deuteronomy 20
Do not destroy its trees by putting an ax to them, because you can eat their fruit.Read →
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Ordinary Circumstances
Julia Prins Vanderveen
Judges 6:11-24
The angel of the Lord came and sat down under the oak . . . where . . . Gideon was threshing wheat. . . .Read →
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Hope for a Tree
Julia Prins Vanderveen
Job 14:1-12; 19:25-27
“At least there is hope for a tree: if it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its new shoots will...Read →
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As Soon as You Hear the Sound
Julia Prins Vanderveen
2 Samuel 5:17-25
“As soon as you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the poplar trees, move quickly, because that will mean...Read →
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Accomplished and Mature
Julia Prins Vanderveen
Psalm 1
That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season. . . .Read →
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Is There No Healing?
Julia Prins Vanderveen
Jeremiah 8:4-22
Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then is there no healing for the wound of my...Read →
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Like Poplar Trees
Julia Prins Vanderveen
Isaiah 44:1-23
“I will pour out my Spirit on your offspring. . . . They will spring up . . . like poplar trees by flowing streams.”Read →
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Pleasant and Good
Julia Prins Vanderveen
Isaiah 55
“Instead of the thornbush will grow the juniper, and instead of briers the myrtle will grow.”Read →
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The Final Word
Julia Prins Vanderveen
Jonah 4
The Lord God provided a leafy plant and made it grow up over Jonah to give shade for his head to ease...Read →
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Life Through Death
Julia Prins Vanderveen
Isaiah 10:33, 11:1-9
A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse; from his roots a Branch will bear fruit.Read →
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Looking For Fruit
Julia Prins Vanderveen
Mark 11:12-25
Seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to find out if it had any fruit.Read →
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Remain
Julia Prins Vanderveen
John 15:1-17
“Remain in me, as I also remain in you. . . .”Read →
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Loved and Forgiven
Julia Prins Vanderveen
Luke 19:1-10
[Zacchaeus] ran ahead and climbed a sycamore-fig tree to see him, since Jesus was coming that way.Read →
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Part of God’s Family Tree
Julia Prins Vanderveen
Romans 11:13-24, 33-36
You, though a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others. . . .Read →
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Rooted
Julia Prins Vanderveen
Colossians 2:6-7
Just as you have received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live in him, rooted and built up in him. . . .Read →
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Forests, Sparks, and Wise Speech
Julia Prins Vanderveen
James 3
Consider what a great forest is set on fire by a small spark.Read →
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God’s Intimate Presence
Julia Prins Vanderveen
Revelation 2:1-7
“To the one who is victorious, I will give the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in the...Read →
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