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In today’s lesson scripture is one possible answer to why the conquest of Canaan was to be so unrelenting and total.  The people who were not exiled or killed, but who were instead allowed to stay on as conquered people serving the Israelites, continued to worship their gods.  Now these people were established and had [...]

Today’s lesson scripture helps us keep our Old Testament lessons in perspective.  People who say the Old Testament doesn’t matter any more are ignoring not only what Christ said about the law during his ministry, but what the apostles such as Paul said: 26 Consider your own call, brothers and sisters: not many of you were [...]

Today’s lesson scripture tells of Moses’ encounter with God on the mountain – accompanied for part of that encounter by Joshua and others.  Much of that time was spent waiting – something we humans are particularly bad at doing.  This was not only a lesson for Moses and Joshua – it’s still a lesson for [...]

We don’t know what’s best for us.  That may seem trite, but it depends on your viewpoint.  If your viewpoint is outside of any relationship with God, then it is trite indeed.  If your viewpoint is one of looking out from a relationship with God, then it is an absolute truth. I have wondered about [...]

I was talking with a friend earlier this evening and he said, in essence, that he didn’t want to study scripture, and dissect the word and debate what this or that verse might mean.  He wanted his faith to be simple – just belief.  He didn’t want to be worried with the logic or theology [...]

Yesterday we talked about God’s steadfast love – even in the face of disobedience.  The context of that scripture was after the exile, when Jerusalem was being rebuilt.  Today’s scripture takes us back more than 800 years to a time before Jerusalem and the Temple, when the people of Israel were about to cross over [...]

We’ve talked a good bit about the consequences of rebellion and disobedience over the past few weeks – and there certainly are such consequences – mainly brought upon ourselves by ourselves.  And, while we have studied instances of God’s  wrath in this past quarter, by far and away the God of the Old Testament is, [...]

How many of us seek God’s wisdom in the same way that we seek to earn money – to buy the things we want – to excel at a particular hobby or pastime?  What if we took knowing God as seriously as improving our golf game, or building that project, or our child’s excelling in [...]

We talked about the first part of today’s lesson scripture last Tuesday.  Then we covered the first ten verses of Psalm 81.  Today, our lesson covers the last six verses: 11 ”But my people did not listen to my voice; Israel would not submit to me. 12 So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to [...]

We continue to ponder the concept of “choice matters” with today’s lesson scripture: 31 The one who comes from above is above all; the one who is of the earth belongs to the earth and speaks about earthly things. The one who comes from heaven is above all. 32 He testifies to what he has seen and [...]