One of the most prevalent sins in Christianity today is the sin of “carelessness.” So many people do not give as much care to their walk with God as necessary. We give a great deal of attention to things like managing our investments, planning our...
Moses urged God’s people to listen to and to obey the laws of God. Not to analyze them, criticize them, spiritualize them, compromise them, liberalize them, modernize them, or trivialize them. They were exhorted to...
Moses has been a faithful leader of the Israelites for four decades. But now it is time to pass on the leadership role to a new person. It is time to choose someone who could take them the rest of the way into the Land God...
It is so easy, when recounting our past experiences, to focus on the hardships and difficulties. So often, we tell others about how hard it had been to go through a particular circumstance or experience. We love to “sing the blues.” Unfortunately, when we recount...
The Israelites’ journey from Egypt to the Promised Land presents amazing illustrations and analogies for us of the Christian walk and life and experience. Egypt, the area of bondage, slavery, and hardship is symbolic of the life of the world, slaves to...
Zelophedad was blessed with seven daughters. He had no sons, which caused a bit of a problem for the girls. The LORD had commanded that the Land of Israel be divided (apportioned) among the twelve tribes and that whenever the father of a family died, his land was to...
