Thoughts On the Threshold The children of Israel are about to enter into the Promised Land, but God has a message for them through Moses. Over and over again in these chapters we read the word “obey”, or a variation on that command. And in chapter 27, they are instructed that the first thing they…

Thoughts As I record this episode, beloved, it’s Sunday afternoon. Yesterday the Lovely Lady LeeAnn and I worked on the front yard landscape project literally from sunup to sunset. Among other things, we shoveled and placed nine thousand pounds of gravel. That’s no exaggeration. And yes, LeeAnn did some of the shoveling. I tell you…

Thoughts Have you ever heard the phrase, “Fools rush in where angels fear to tread”? I don’t think I’m a fool, but if I am, so be it. What I am about to talk about needs to be addressed, especially in our current culture. So God created humans in his image. In the image of…

Thoughts An Eye For An Eye? The final verse in chapter nineteen says, “Don’t feel sorry for that evil person. A life must be taken for a life. An eye must be put out for an eye. A tooth must be knocked out for a tooth. A hand must be cut off for a hand…

Thoughts Today I don’t have any comments for you after the reading. I’ve had a bit of a homeowner’s disaster in the past 24 hours. A water line under a concrete deck in the back yard broke, and I’ve spent the day figuring out whether to either break out the concrete to try to find…

Thoughts 12“And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, 13to keep the commandments and statutes of the Lord, which I…

Thoughts One More Time As we often read here in Deuteronomy and other places in the Old Testament, God tells the people what He will do, and then He reminds them many times. He tells them what He did, and then He reminds them what He did, many times. Why does He do that? Why…

Thoughts In chapter 6, verses 4 and 5, Moses is telling the children of Israel the Great Commandment, the one that encompasses all the others. It’s the commandment that Jesus quoted when the Pharisees asked Him which was the greatest of all the commandments.  4 “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one! 5 You shall love the Lord your…

Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents By Rod Dreher / Sentinel Aleksandr Solzhenitzyn once noted that people often assume that their democratic government would never submit to totalitarianism—but Dreher says it’s happening. Sounding the alarm about the insidious effects of identity politics, surveillance technology, psychological manipulation, and more, he equips contemporary Christian…