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Today’s Reading: Deuteronomy 32-34, Psalm 91
Today’s readings include two songs, the end of the Deuteronomy and the Books of the Law, and the end of the prophet Moses.
Psalms 91 aways brings back memories of courting my wife, Wendy. One day, we went together to a Christian bookstore and listened to a few sample tapes ( [...]

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Today’s Reading: Deuteronomy 30-31
It is amazing how many times God warns the people of Israel not for follow after other God. He tells them over and over again of the grave consequences of choosing to turn away from Him in favor of other gods. In today’s reading, He warns them again ( Dueteronomy 30:17-18 ) [...]

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Today’s Reading: Deuteronomy 28-29
Today’s reading make quite a few references a God that modern day Christians are unfamiliar with, try to avoid thinking about, or worse, deny exists - an Angry God:
Therefore, the anger of the LORD burned against that land, to bring upon it every curse which is written in this book;  and the [...]

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Today’s Reading: Deuteronomy 24-27
More sundry laws. There is probably a risk for most Christians reading (or avoiding reading) the books of the Law to over simplify them in a number of ways.

We may see them as not relevant - we are no longer under the law so they don’t apply to us.
We may see them [...]

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Today’s Reading: Deuteronomy 21-23
Today’s reading is a re-cap of some of the laws and commandments passed down the people of Israel. I recently read that tradition places the number of commandments in these five books at 613. While not all rabbinical scholars agree with this number, it is amazing to imagine memorizing and carefully upholding [...]

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Today’s Reading: Deuteronomy 17-20
The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your countrymen, you shall listen to him.
This is according to all that you asked of the LORD your God in Horeb on the day of the assembly, saying, ‘Let me not hear again the voice [...]

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Today’s Reading: Deuteronomy 14-16
Image what the people of Israel looked like from an outsider’s perspective.
They don’t worship their God by shaving their heads and cutting themselves like everyone else. They don’t eat like everyone, no pork chops, no crab meat salad. They loan you money then just write it off every seven years. Then, several [...]

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