Daily Bread — Friday, June 28, 2024
For you know that we dwelt in the land of Egypt and that we came through the nations which you passed by and you saw their abominations and their idols which were among them—wood and stone and silver and gold. (Deuteronomy 29:16-17) Having lived in Egypt, Israel was...
21 Sivan — The Power of the Tongue
It’s believed that, on this day, after making some disparaging remarks about her brother, Miriam was stricken with leprosy and removed outside the camp for seven days: “So the anger of the Lord was aroused against them, and He departed. And when...
Daily Bread — Thursday, June 27, 2024
I make this covenant and this oath, not with you alone, but with him who stands here with us today before the Lord our God, as well as with him who is not here with us today. (Deuteronomy 29:14-15) This is a very powerful statement. Moses declared that the covenant...
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,...