Jesus said that the Great Commandment is to love the Lord our God with all our heart and soul and might (Deuteronomy 6:5; Mark 12:30). And we find that commandment repeated in verse 12 of today’s passage. But what does it really mean to love God with all we are…

Whenever we open the Law of Moses, it’s easy for us 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…

Why does God love His people so much? When we look at the divisions within the Church today, and our complacency in the face of so much evil around us, it’s easy to ask that question. In fact, when we individual Christians look in the mirror, we might wonder the…

Isaac Newton once said, “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” He thus gave much of the credit for his own achievements to the great thinkers who had gone before him. If he erected mighty structures of calculus and physics, not to mention…

“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might” (verse 5). Jesus said this was the first and greatest commandment. But instead of surrounding this verse with what we might expect, directions for worship or encouragements for devotional…

Bible Reading for March 1 – Leviticus 26:3-20 “If you obey me you will be blessed, and if you disobey me you will be cursed.” That sounds uncomfortably close to works righteousness, doesn’t it? Is God saying that we can earn our salvation by what we do? Not if we…

Today’s passage is one of the clearest indictments of the way slavery was practiced in the Antebellum South. After all, Paul makes it clear that all ethnic and socio-economic distinctions have been dissolved within the Church (Galatians 3:28). Thus, those who share faith in Jesus are not only our countrymen…

“Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all inhabitants thereof” (Leviticus 25:10). Those are the words engraved on the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, and the idea of freedom thus lies at the heart of our American consciousness. But as we can see from today’s passage, the original context didn’t have…

So, why was God so particular about the sorts of sacrifices His people offered to Him? I mean, they were going to be burned up anyway, so what possible difference could it have made if they were somehow blemished or injured? Well, perhaps most obviously, bringing only perfectly formed animals…

What does it really mean to love my neighbor? Quoting from this Old Testament passage, Jesus told us that showing love to our neighbors summed up a big portion of what the Law of Moses was all about. And today’s passage helps us see that love for our neighbors goes…