Deuteronomy

Make God Your #1 Priority

The Great Sh’ma!  Deuteronomy 6:4-5 “Hear, O Israel!  The LORD is our God, the LORD is one! You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.” Do you?  Do you really love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all […]

The Great Sh’ma! (Listen!)

The Great Sh’ma!  Deuteronomy 6:4-5 “Hear, O Israel!  The LORD is our God, the LORD is one! You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.” Prayer paraphrased from  Deuteronomy 6:4-5:   LORD God of the Bible – help me to Listen, to hear […]

Do you know your family’s history, does it include faith in God?

Moses rehearsed the history of Israel’s 40 years in the wilderness.  A new generation had grown up in the wilderness.  As adults, they needed to hear their history.  Deuteronomy 1:6-8   The book of Deuteronomy is all about re-telling the history of the sons of Israel.  Do you know your family’s history?  Perhaps it includes faith […]

~ Circumcision: Sign of Abrahamic Covenant ~ 

  The LORD’S covenant with Abraham was sealed with the sign of circumcision. Spiritual circumcision is of the inner person, the heart.  Romans 2:29 “But he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that which is of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter; and his praise is not from men, […]

Remember!

  We all need reminders from time to time.  What God says – He means.God expects His people to obey His words. Remember: what God did in  your life – remember the yesterdays and praise God for bringing you to Himself, follower of Christ.  It is through His grace that you are saved by your […]

Attribute/Name of God ~ Judge

Attribute/Name of God ~ Judge   Jesus has been appointed by God to be Judge of the living and the dead… He will judge everyone. (Acts 10:42)   Jesus will be our Judge – it will be the Lord Jesus who will form a judgment about you and me from the choices we have made […]

God’s Open Arms of Welcome

Cornelius, a centurion in the Roman army, had received a vision to ask Peter to come to his home.  Peter also received a vision from God with the teaching that what God made clean was indeed… clean and holy.  Jewish people were not to go into the homes of Gentiles, but Peter was instructed by […]

“This Moses…”

  Stephen’s defense continued as he stood before his accusers…the charge?  It was blasphemy against Moses and against God.  (Acts 6:11)   Stephen explained himself by using the history of the living God working in and through His people… Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Moses.   Stephen emphasized the work of God through Moses – a […]

God goes with His own

Promises are to be kept.  And God, the God of the Holy Bible, keeps every promise He makes.  Amazing God!  Awesome God!  What a promise from the living God!  “… for the LORD your God is the one who goes with you.” Not only do all followers of Christ have the living God with us, […]

Game-Changer…

From where are you taking courage and getting strength as we find ourselves in these days of life which are temporarily changing the way we live? From where are we to take courage and be strengthened? Game-changer!  God’s word is a Game Changer!Read God’s word. Think about what God is saying to you.Believe God’s word […]