Why is reading the Bible so important? Not least because it is our only reliable source of truth about God. For example, verse 149 speaks of God’s ordinances, His perfect justice that requires the death penalty for any rebellion against Him, any breach of His perfect law of love. Just…

Why should the Scriptures matter to us? Not least because they give us true knowledge of the God Who loves us so much. That’s the good news – God hasn’t abandoned us so that we might only wonder what He might be like. Instead, verse 68 makes it clear that…

God knows everything that happens before it happens. That has to be true, or there’s no way that God could have told the prophets about the future. That’s how Isaiah and Jeremiah could predict the fall of Jerusalem, and that’s how both of them knew things about Jesus hundreds of…

It’s important to understand what passages like Deuteronomy 28 are not saying. God is not saying that His people would be saved by their obedience – after all, He had already brought them out of slavery in Egypt and made them His own. God is also not saying that every…

How are Christians called to help the poor? In Moses’ time, children without fathers and older women without husbands had no one to care for them. And sojourners were by definition people without roots in the community, without homes or land. And in an agricultural society, if you had no…

The different commandments found in the Law of Moses can’t all be interpreted in the same way, and today’s passage illustrates that point with three examples. Because Verses 6 and 7 deal with our responsibility to protect the environment, they are universal in their application, needing no translation into different…

We should love the Lord our God with all we are and all we have, and love our neighbors just as much and in the same way that we love ourselves. That’s the way Jesus summarized the Law of Moses. So why should we continue to study the details of…

How can we know whom to believe? Politicians from opposite parties take up opposite positions, cherrypicking different data to prove opposite points of view. Preachers interpret the same Scripture texts in sometimes conflicting ways. Even your own Facebook friends come to different conclusions about current events – some think the…

When reading the Law of Moses, it’s easy to fall into the trap of legalism, believing that we are saved only because we keep God’s commandments. But notice that Moses doesn’t tell the people that they will only be able to go into the Promised Land if they obey God’s…

Why did Moses have to give the Law to the people a second time? That’s what Deuteronomy means, second law. Why doesn’t the Bible just say at the end of Numbers, “And Moses repeated all the law before the people crossed over into Jordan? One big reason in that, in…