Daily Bread — Saturday, December 30, 2023
When you beget children and grandchildren and have grown old in the land, and act corruptly ... and do evil in the sight of the Lord your God to provoke Him to anger ... you will soon utterly perish from the land which you cross over the Jordan to...
Daily Bread — Friday, December 29, 2023
For the Lord your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God. (Deuteronomy 4:24) Yesterday, we addressed the fact that because we serve a jealous God, we mustn't be tolerate of falsehoods and lies -- that would be akin to turning to false gods. Following the example of...
Daily Bread — Thursday, December 28, 2023
For the Lord your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God. (Deuteronomy 4:24) Considering that Moses was not permitted to enter Canaan, nor were his bones buried in the land as it was with Joseph, it is clear that the Almighty doesn't play favorites nor does He...
Daily Bread — Wednesday, December 27, 2023
But the Lord has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be His people, an inheritance, as you are this day. (Deuteronomy 4:20) Moses reminded Israel that they are a people of "inheritance," which is to say, they are a people called to be...
Daily Bread — Tuesday, December 26, 2023
But the Lord has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be His people, an inheritance, as you are this day. (Deuteronomy 4:20) The nations of the world have always and still do what is right in their own eyes. With God's people it is not...
Daily Bread — Monday, December 25, 2023
Take heed, lest you lift your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun, the moon, and the stars, all the host of heaven, you feel driven to worship them and serve them, which the Lord your God has given to all the peoples under the whole heaven as a...
Daily Bread — Sunday, December 24, 2023
Take heed, lest you lift your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun, the moon, and the stars, all the host of heaven, you feel driven to worship them and serve them, which the Lord your God has given to all the peoples under the whole heaven as a...
Daily Bread — Saturday, December 23, 2023
Take heed, lest you lift your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun, the moon, and the stars, all the host of heaven, you feel driven to worship them and serve them, which the Lord your God has given to all the peoples under the whole heaven as a...
Daily Bread — Friday, December 22, 2023
Take careful heed to yourselves, for you saw no form when the Lord spoke to you at Horeb out of the midst of the fire, lest you act corruptly and make for yourselves a carved image in the form of any figure. (Deuteronomy 4:15-16) For all of their lives, the Hebrews...
Daily Bread — Thursday, December 21, 2023
Take heed to yourself, and diligently keep yourself, lest you forget the things your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. And teach them to your children and your grandchildren, especially concerning the day you stood before...
Daily Bread — Wednesday, December 20, 2023
Surely I have taught you statutes and judgments ... Therefore be careful to observe them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who will hear all these statutes, and say, "Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding...
Daily Bread — Tuesday, December 19, 2023
Your eyes have seen what the Lord did at Baal Peor; for the Lord your God has destroyed from among you all the men who followed Baal of Peor. But you who held fast to the Lord your God are alive today, every one of you. (Deuteronomy 4:3-4) In previous verses God,...