Readings of the Day

Deuteronomy 23:1 – 25:19
Notable Verse 23:23
“Whatever your lips utter you must be sure to do, because you made your vow freely to the LORD your God with your own mouth.”
There is a joke I heard at an A.A. meeting that went “How do you know an alcoholic is lying? His lips are moving.” I am [...]

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Readings of the Day: Deuteronomy, Luke, Psalms, Proverbs

Deuteronomy 21:1 – 22:30
Notable Verse 22:6-7
“If you come across a bird’s nest beside the road, either in a tree or on the ground, and the mother is sitting on the young or on the eggs, do not take the mother with the young.  7  You may take the young, but be sure to let [...]

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Readings of the Day

Deuteronomy 18:1 – 20:20
Notable Verse 18:2 “They shall have no inheritance among their brothers; the LORD is their inheritance, as he promised them.
 
The whole tribe of Levi got nothing, at least in the eyes of the people. Nothing physical at any rate. The tribe were to consider God Himself their inheritance. It struck me reading [...]

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The One Year Bible Readings of the Day

Numbers 24:1 – 25:18
Notable Verses Numbers 24: 12 – 13
Num 24:12  Balaam answered Balak, “Did I not tell the messengers you sent me, 13  “Even if Balak gave me his palace filled with silver and gold, I could not do anything of my own accord, good or bad, to go beyond the command of [...]

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Readings of the Day: Numbers, Mark, Psalms, Proverbs

Numbers 15:17 – 16:40
Notable verse 15:30 “‘But anyone who sins defiantly, whether native-born or alien, blasphemes the LORD, and that person must be cut off from his people.”
What strikes me about this verse is that I wouldn’t have lasted a day, at the most a week in the camp. I would have been stoned [...]

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Bible in a Year – Readings of the Day

Numbers 14:1 – 15:16
Notable 14:3 “Moses said to the LORD, “Then the Egyptians will hear about it! By your power you brought these people up from among them.”
Wow! God is really angry. None of us want to be in the room when mom gets angry much less God. Yet, here is Moses, not only in [...]

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Readings of the Day: Numbers, Mark, Psalms, Proverbs

Numbers 11:24 – 13:33
Notable Verse – Num 11:29 
But Moses replied, “Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that all the LORD’s people were prophets and that the LORD would put his Spirit on them!”
The first thing I wanted to write about was, were there still prophets and I realized that is “above my [...]

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Readings of the Day: Numbers, Mark, Psalms, Proverbs

Numbers 4:1 – 5:31
Notable Verse: Num 5:1  The LORD said to Moses,
This phrase comes up three times in the chapter. It seems rather strange, not for its awkwardness, but what can only be seen as its normality. We are used to considering the Bible as God’s spoken word, and Jesus being the Living Word that [...]

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Readings of the Day

Numbers 2:1 – 3:51
Notable Verses: Num 2:32  These are the Israelites, counted according to their families. All those in the camps, by their divisions, number 603,550.
Num 3:39  The total number of Levites counted at the LORD’s command by Moses and Aaron according to their clans, including every male a month old or more, was 22,000.
 
Mark [...]

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Readings of the Day

Leviticus 25:47 – 27:13
Notable Verse 26:44 Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, i I will not spurn them, neither will I abhor them so as to destroy them utterly and j break my covenant with them, for I am the Lord their God.
God has just spent since 26:14 telling the Israelites [...]

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