Our goal is to make Bible study approachable in every season connecting you with the deep love and care of Christ.
Hope Blanton
Co-Author
Hope Blanton is wife to Ray, (professor of Communications at University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio) and mother to Cana, Thea, and Nias. She has lived in multiple cities and has been involved in churches all over the country. Hope was trained as a clinical social worker, earning her Master’s Degree at Temple University. She has used her counseling skills as a social worker for at risk youth, postpartum moms, Women’s Ministry Equipper at Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Lincoln, Nebraska, and currently in her role as a Therapist at Kaleo Counseling in San Antonio, TX. She has taken her years of experience and applied it to the Biblical truths in these studies, writing questions to make us consider what each section of Scripture means for our hearts, minds, habits, fears, and relationships. She is a feeler, funny, organized, and endlessly asking questions to draw people out and make them feel known.
Chris Gordon
Co-Author
Christine (Chris) is married to Michael, Midwest Area Coordinator for RUF (Reformed University Fellowship) and mother to Elliot, Elsie, and Ezra. She received her Master’s degree in Theology from Covenant Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri. Chris currently works as a visiting instructor at Covenant Theological Seminary. She has been involved in women’s ministry and worship teams at multiple churches and loves to help women understand the Bible more deeply. Chris has the ability to explain deep biblical truths in an easy to understand way, leaving those who interact with her feeling seen and known by the Lord. She takes her love and ability to study the scriptures in-depth, with her range of life experiences, creating commentary that excavates deep biblical truths and impacts any heart. She is quirky, loves to dance, cannot multi-task to save her life, and regularly embarrasses her children.
Our Story
In the late summer of 2013, Hope began searching for materials for the women’s fall Bible study at Redeemer Church in Lincoln, Nebraska. While she found a great number of quality Bible studies, she struggled to find in-depth studies of the Scripture that didn’t require multiple hours of homework. In a moment of desperation, Hope asked Chris if she would be willing to co-write a study on Romans, convincing her by naively saying, “I mean, you went to seminary, and I have a counseling degree. How hard could it be?” And so it began. Weekly emails back and forth—Chris deep in commentaries, Hope mulling over questions. The women of Redeemer patiently bore with them as they handed them a new typed lesson weekly, writing as they went along.
Two years later, the Bible study ladies asked for another study. Hope approached a hesitant Chris, softening her to the idea by telling her she could choose any book she wanted. Because of her love for Old Testament narrative, Chris chose 1 Samuel, and another study was born. Around this time, friends all across the country started asking Chris and Hope for copies of the two studies. They sent what seemed like endless pdfs to people via email until a pastor friend, who happened to be a publisher, approached them at a party, offering to publish the Bible studies. Suddenly they had a way to get these into the hands of women who could use them. This had been the heartbeat behind the studies all along, to help other women see Jesus clearly in his Word. But what would they call them?
During the first century, when Jesus walked the earth, a Jewish rabbi would have been surrounded by his students, with some of the men sitting at his feet to learn and listen. This was the custom, the understood norm of the day. But in Luke 10:39, Mary sat at the feet of Jesus. Mary, a woman, was taught by this unconventional rabbi. Mary was given the dignity of taking in his words, his pauses, his tone. To Jesus, she was every bit as worthy of his teaching as the men in the room were—and so are his women students today. Therefore, Chris and Hope continue to write At His Feet Bible studies, sitting at the feet of Jesus while studying his Word.