Category: Books of the Bible
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Day 055: The Price of Proximity (Number 4:15)
What looks like nepotism at first turns out to be one of the most dangerous roles in the Israelite camp.
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Day 076: Leaders and the Law (Deuteronomy 17:18-20)
Israel’s kings were commanded to write out God’s Law by hand—not to reinterpret it, but to internalize and obey it. The real question isn’t what we know, but whether we live what we claim to believe.
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Day 075: Twisted Scriptures (Deuteronomy 15:16-17)
I once used Deuteronomy 15 to justify getting my ear pierced—claiming it symbolized my lifelong devotion to the Lord. Looking back, it’s a reminder of how easy it is to twist Scripture to justify what we already want to do.
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Parables of Priorities on the Way to Jerusalem (Luke 15)
In Luke 15, Jesus tells three parables about lost things—a sheep, a coin, and a son. Each story ends the same way: with rejoicing when what was lost is found. But the most famous of these stories, often called the Prodigal Son, reveals something even deeper about God’s priorities. The younger son is lost in…
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Day 072: Taking God at His Word: The Mezuzah (Deuteronomy 6:4-9)
In Jewish law, there are precise regulations for where and how to place a mezzuzah— the box that holds God’s law. But the most important instruction for where to put God’s law is right there in the text itself.
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Day 071: How Long is “Not Long” to God? ( Deuteronomy 4:26)
Through the Bible: Deuteronomy 3-4