It is not at all because you are such righteous, upright people that you are about to occupy their land. The Lord your God will drive these nations out ahead of you only because of their wickedness, and … Read More
“This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.” (Leonard Bernstein) With yesterday’s awful news of the worst mass killing in American history saddening our hearts, my wife and … Read More
You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your strength. Deuteronomy 6:5 NLT God is Love, not law. God is not interested in compulsive religiosity. He is unimpressed by … Read More
So be very careful to act exactly as God commands you. Don’t veer off to the right or the left. Walk straight down the road God commands so that you’ll have a good life and live a long time … Read More
The Lord your God has blessed everything you have done and has watched your every step through this great wilderness. During these forty years, the Lord your God has been with you and provided for your every need so … Read More
You must give the Levites six cities of refuge where a person who has accidentally killed someone can flee for safety. Numbers 35:6 NLT God is our Hiding Place from sin. If we got what was … Read More
Sea of Galilee Sunrise “The LORD said to Moses, ‘Give these instructions to the Israelites: When you come into the land of Canaan, which I am giving you as your special possession, these will be the boundaries.’” (Numbers 34:2 … Read More
“Phinehas, son of Eleazar and grandson of Aaron the priest, has turned my anger away from the Israelites by displaying passionate zeal among them on my behalf.” (Numbers 25:11 NLT) Christians should be zealous for heaven’s sake. Zeal without … Read More
“God is not a man, that he should lie. He is not human, that he should change his mind. Has he ever spoken, and failed to act? Has he ever promised and not carried it through” [Numbers 23:19 … Read More
There the Israelites sang this song: “Spring up, O well! Yes, sing about it!” (Numbers 21:17 NLT) Ancient Hebrews were healed by a trusting look at a stinging serpent on a pole—we journey toward real life as we gaze … Read More