Reading: Joshua 5-8, Psalm 66 Some stories have a tendency to stick with us. Joshua and the battle of Jericho, where the walls came tumbling down, is one of those Bible stories that almost everyone seems to know, but which gets very rarely gets told with all it’s surrounding circumstances
Reading: Joshua 1-4, Psalm 65 Welcome to the Prophets! What’s that? This doesn’t meet your expectations of prophecy? Well, no it doesn’t. But maybe that has more to do with our understanding of what a prophet is than the story we are reading. Later in the story, we will hear
Reading: Deuteronomy 32-34, Psalm 64 We did it! Today is the last reading from the books of Moses, which are collectively referred to through the rest of the Bible as “The Law.” While the story will pretty directly continue with the life of Joshua and then into the time of
Reading: Deuteronomy 28-29, Psalm 62 Well, we’ve reached the climactic moment of the books of Moses. God has delivered his last commands to the people of Israel before they cross the Jordan river into the land he promised to Abraham. A big part of the promise that began this whole
Reading: Deuteronomy 24-27, Psalm 61 Oh good, more pithy laws that seem to apply only in very specific circumstances. We already know that the purpose of these laws is the distinction between the people of Israel and the people around them, so why is it so extensive? For one thing,
Reading: Deuteronomy 21-23, Psalm 60 Well, we’ve come to the weird little applied laws. Some of these make more sense to us than others, but many of them seem incredibly specific to the time and place- parapet around your roof, anyone? Tassels on your coat? What are these doing in
Reading: Deuteronomy 17-20, Psalm 59 Yesterday, we read about how God wants his people to deal with wealth and poverty, the rich and the poor. A similar theme to how societies deal with wealth is how societies deal with power. Remember, at this point the people of Israel are literally