Daily Bread — Tuesday, January 16, 2024
These words the Lord spoke to all your assembly, in the mountain from the midst of the fire, the cloud, and the thick darkness, with a loud voice; and He added no more. And He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me. (Deuteronomy 5:22) There is...
Daily Bread — Monday, January 15, 2024
You shall not murder. You shall not commit adultery. You shall not steal. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife; and you shall not desire your neighbor’s house, his field, his male servant, his female servant,...
Daily Bread — Sunday, January 14, 2024
You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain. (Deuteronomy 5:11) Growing up, many of us considered this instruction to mean that we were not to attach God's Name to a swear word. While I...
Daily Bread — Saturday, January 13, 2024
For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments. (Deuteronomy 5:9-10) This is...
Daily Bread — Friday, January 12, 2024
You shall have no other gods before Me.You shall not make for yourself a carved image—any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve...
Daily Bread — Thursday, January 11, 2024
The Lord did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, those who are here today, all of us who are alive. The Lord talked with you face to face on the mountain from the midst of the fire. (Deuteronomy 5:3-4) There are some renderings of this verse that...
Daily Bread — Wednesday, January 10, 2024
And Moses called all Israel, and said to them: “Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your hearing today, that you may learn them and be careful to observe them." (Deuteronomy 5:1) Again and again, Moses exhorted Israel to “hear” the commands,...
Daily Bread — Tuesday, January 9, 2024
You shall therefore keep His statutes and His commandments which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for all time. (Deuteronomy 4:40)...
Daily Bread — Monday, January 8, 2024
Therefore know this day, and consider it in your heart, that the Lord Himself is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other. (Deuteronomy 4:39) Before we move on from this verse, let us again consider the importance of knowing God as opposed to...
Daily Bread — Sunday, January 7, 2024
Therefore know this day, and consider it in your heart, that the Lord Himself is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other. (Deuteronomy 4:39) As we discussed in the previous devotion, Moses charged the people of God to go beyond just knowing...
Daily Bread — Saturday, January 6, 2024
Therefore know this day, and consider it in your heart, that the Lord Himself is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other. (Deuteronomy 4:39) There are things that we know about and then there are things that we know. and by that I mean, we know...
Daily Bread — Friday, January 5, 2024
Did God ever try to go and take for Himself a nation from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your...
