Category: The journey

“Do you believe life’s a journey? I do. I have been on the journey of life a good few years now.” I can’t quite remember why my friend Chris learnt this drama, but we...

So today we find ourselves back in familiar and seemingly uninspired territory. Chapter 26 starts with the Israelites’ second census, where every male over 20 in each tribe is counted. This time Eleazar son...

Here’s a chunk straight from the Bible for a change. Context: “Each of you must put to death those of your people who have yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor.” (Numbers 25:6). That’s what...

So the water runs out and the people turn on Aaron and Moses. Moses’ sister Miriam has died. The people wish that they had never left Egypt. They blame Aaron and Moses for leading...

The Lord said to Moses, “Speak to the Israelites and get twelve staffs from them, one from the leader of each of their ancestral tribes. Write the name of each man on his staff....

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...

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...

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...

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...