Dreams and risks and comfort zones…….
Exploring Canaan God commands Moses to send a leader from each ancestral tribe ahead to explore Canaan. To travel out of their comfort zone and into the unknown. Into the land of their dreams,...
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The realities of rivalry……..
My sister used to attend a church when her kids were young where they said a prayer every week thanking God for the ‘joys of family life’. Some weeks she could wholeheartedly say those...
So are you one of the Vinegar Veras or Polyannas of this world?
Now the people complained about their hardships in the hearing of the Lord, and when he heard them his anger was aroused. Then fire from the Lord burned among them and consumed some of the outskirts...
We never have to walk alone……
On the twentieth day of the second month of the second year, the cloud lifted from above the tabernacle of the covenant law. Then the Israelites set out from the Desert of Sinai and...
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....
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...
Relationship roulette – a game of chance or a game of skill?
When you are asked by your wife to write about the “The Test for an Unfaithful Wife” in Numbers 5, it is hard not to worry that there is another agenda. Is she asking...
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...
