Daily Bread — Sunday, July 7, 2024
The word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may do it. (Deuteronomy 30:14) As we discussed in the previous devotion, God has made His Word accessible -- and understandable -- to all who desire to receive it. Moses clearly states that the...
30 Sivan — Make Things Right
It was on this day in the year 1927 that, in a public letter written to Louis Marshall, Henry Ford of the Ford Motor Company retracted and apologized for the spurious, "Protocols of the Elders of Zion." As you may know, this publication made fantastic accusations and...
Daily Bread — Saturday, July 6, 2024
This commandment which I command you today is not too mysterious for you, nor is it far off. It is not in heaven, that you should say, “Who will ascend into heaven for us and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it?” (Deuteronomy 30:11-12) I think it is fair to...
29 Sivan — A “Feel Good” Message
According to tradition, it was on this day that Moses dispatched the twelve spies to go into the land of Canaan: “Then Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said to them, ‘Go up this way into the South, and go up to the mountains, and see what the...
Daily Bread — Friday, July 5, 2024
And the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, to love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live. (Deuteronomy 30:6) Everyone who professes faith in the One, True God and His Son, strives to...
28 Sivan — Why God Uses The Wilderness
It was on this day that Moses led the children of Israel into the wilderness of Paran, as recorded in Numbers 12: “And afterward the people moved from Hazeroth and camped in the Wilderness of Paran.” (Numbers 12:16) There is a great deal of theological debate as to...
Daily Bread — Thursday, July 4, 2024
The Lord your God will bring you back from captivity, and have compassion on you, and gather you again from all the nations where the Lord your God has scattered you. (Deuteronomy 30:1-3) Where there is repentance there is restoration. When God's people repent with...
27 Sivan — His Anger Is Only For A Moment
It was on this day that Miriam ended a seven-day confinement, as recorded in Numbers 12: “So Miriam was shut out of the camp seven days, and the people did not journey till Miriam was brought in again. And afterward the people moved from Hazeroth and camped in the...
Daily Bread — Wednesday, July 3, 2024
When all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse which I have set before you, and you call them to mind among all the nations where the Lord your God drives you, and you return to the Lord your God and obey His voice with all your heart and with all...
26 Sivan — His Thoughts Are Not Our Thoughts
It was on this day in 1942 that the German army was defeated at the battle of El Alamein in northern Africa. With the defeat of the Desert Fox, Erwin Rommel, the greatest threat, at that point in time, to the Jewish people who were living in the Holy Land, was...
Daily Bread — Tuesday, July 2, 2024
The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but those things which are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law. (Deuteronomy 29:29) As we discussed in the previous devotion, there are different ideas as to what was...
25 Sivan — Sons of Abraham
What is the Gospel? As a child I was told that Messiah had died for my sins and if I confess my sins, believing that God had raised Him from the dead, I could be forgiven of my sins and be granted eternal life. Over the years I’ve heard other people put forth...