Aug 24, 2016
Deuteronomy 16:13-17. Do you ever take a walk down memory lane? We can often look at the past with a certain romance. There is something centering about it. Yet, in all honesty, rarely would we choose to go back there. The feast of Tabernacles was the feast for "remembering when" but only in so much as it helped...
Aug 24, 2016
Deuteronomy 16:9-12. Few things are more difficult in this life than transition. Transition from one thing to another; from one circumstance to another; from one calling to another. The feast of Pentecost was for celebrating God's provision for His people in transition. In this passage, as well as other places in...
Aug 24, 2016
Deuteronomy 16:1-8. Worship is not the place to put on a brave face. God never intends for us to put our heads in the sand and pretend that things in the past have not happened. In fact, the feast of Passover was for practicing the hardship of the past--remembering it; returning to it--as the context for rejoicing in...
Aug 24, 2016
Deuteronomy 15:1-18. Benjamin Franklin said that he'd "rather go to bed supperless than rise in debt." Americans are suffering under the weight of both personal and national debt. It is not God's will for His people to be enslaved again--which is essentially what happens when we become overly indebted. Imagine a...
Aug 24, 2016
Deuteronomy 14:22-29. The Israelites were about to become the nouveau riche in the land of promise. They would move into houses they did not build; gather food from fields they did not sow; and drink wine from vineyards they did not plant. So, how were they to show gratitude for all God had so graciously blessed them...