20 Sivan — One King, One LORD
It was on this day in 1967 that the Old City of Jerusalem was annexed and joined to the new city of Jerusalem. With that decision, for the first time in 2000 years, a united Jerusalem was placed under Israeli control. Since then, the world’s leaders have been trying...
Daily Bread — Wednesday, June 26, 2024
All of you stand today before the Lord your God: your leaders and your tribes and your elders and your officers, all the men of Israel, your little ones and your wives. (Deuteronomy 29:10-11) As this and the subsequent verses reveal, the entire congregation of Israel...
19 Sivan — In One Accord
In Acts 15, we read how some believers in Jerusalem went to the believers in Antioch and told them: “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.” (Acts 15:1) With that statement they said, or at least inferred, that the...
Daily Bread — Tuesday, June 25, 2024
All of you stand today before the Lord your God: your leaders and your tribes and your elders and your officers, all the men of Israel, your little ones and your wives. (Deuteronomy 29:10-11) Jewish tradition states that these words were spoken by Moses on the last...
18 Sivan — Being Fickle Is Hazardous To Your Health
In the book of Acts it is recorded that, as a man crippled from birth listened to Paul’s preaching, he was moved to have the faith to be healed. Paul then spoke to the man to get on his feet, which he did, before all the people assembled there: “Now when the people...
Daily Bread — Monday, June 24, 2024
And I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not worn out on you, and your sandals have not worn out on your feet. You have not eaten bread, nor have you drunk wine or similar drink, that you may know that I am the Lord your God. (Deuteronomy...
17 Sivan — Discerning the Time of Our Deliverance
Scripture recounts how, upon seeing his Hebrew brethren mistreated, Moses struck an Egyptian taskmaster and killed him. In the book of Acts, Stephen retold the story and made this statement: “For he supposed that his brethren would have understood that God would...
Daily Bread — Sunday, June 23, 2024
You have seen all that the Lord did before your eyes in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all his land—the great trials which your eyes have seen, the signs, and those great wonders. Yet the Lord has not given you a heart to perceive and...
16 Sivan — He Will Send His Angels
Tradition has it that on this day Jacob, having erected the monument at Gilead that constituted a covenant between him and Lavan, departed for Canaan. According to the Bible, as he did, he met a group of angels. It’s recorded in Genesis 32: So Jacob went on his way,...
Daily Bread — Saturday, June 22, 2024
But it shall come to pass, if you do not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all His commandments and His statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you. (Deuteronomy 28:15) No one likes to discuss...
15 Sivan — Poisoned By Bitterness
Do you know someone who has the need to be the center of attention? Someone who always has to be in the spotlight? Someone who, in their mind anyway, seems to know just a bit more than you do? Most likely, we all know people like that but what is it that makes them...
Daily Bread — Friday, June 21, 2024
And the Lord will make you the head and not the tail; you shall be above only, and not be beneath, if you heed the commandments of the Lord your God. (Deuteronomy 28:13) When the one who would later be called Israel was first born, he was given the name Jacob (Hebrew...