Giving up and giving…..
In Leviticus, we heard a lot about how to bring offerings to the Lord. In Numbers Chapter 6, we see how an Israelite – man or woman – can make that offering/vow count more....
Author: Helen Redfern
My take on fidelity……
Andy did a great job yesterday, didn’t he? He’s written so well on such a difficult topic. I don’t have much to add. Yes, I was infatuated, totally intoxicated by MW. He consumed my...
It’s (nearly) all about the sea cow…..
People sometimes ask me how I write this blog. How do I come up with the ideas? Do I plan ahead? Usually the ideas come as I sit down and read the passage. And...
Where we live now…..
So now we move on to the arrangement of the tribal camps. God had a view about where each clan should camp around the the central clan of the Levites and the Tent of...
When is a man a man?
Numbers Chapter 1 describes the first ever census. According to Wikipedia, a census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. Interestingly, during the Roman Republic, the census...
Numbers: yes, age is just a number – but sometimes that number matters!
Sometimes, numbers matter. Yes, age is just a number. But sometimes that number matters. So I went to London this weekend with 3 friends to celebrate my birthday. My 50th birthday. But one of...
My thoughts on failure
Leviticus 26 is all about reward and punishment. It’s all very simple: If you do this, then……If you don’t do this, then….. If you follow my decrees, I will send you rain and the...
The next part of the story….
Priests had to be different. Even more different than the people of Israel. They had a special role to play as mediators between God and the people. They had to keep themselves extra clean...
I closed my eyes……
Now we come to the punishments for the grievous sins we have looked into over the last few days. We’re talking child sacrifice and adultery and incest and consulting mediums and bestiality and cursing...
