Be With Me: 7 Minutes of Biblical Wonder

At the end of her life, my mother was asked if she wanted to say any final words to her grandchildren.  She replied the most wonderful line: "Oh, I have given them everything they need." Imagine coming to the end of your life and being able to say basically, I don’t need to do anything additional; I have no regrets for who or how I have poured into. I have equipped them with everything I am capaple of . Now it is their tu...

You may be new to the concept of entering into a covenantal relationship.  However, covenant keeping in the context of relationship IS NOT NEW TO GOD. He's been at it since page one of the Bible.  Of note, He has always been faithful.

Can we make covenant with God today? Listen 7 minutes with me as we figure this out.  Is God still in the business of relational covenant keeping? Even if it is with knuckleheads? 

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I will spare you most of the 53 verses of curses pronounced upon the people of God.  You'd rightly expect them for a people who fail to Listen to God's voice or follow His commands.  But He also adds this condemnation: "Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joyfulness and gladness of heart.."

Think about that. Not only does God wish obedient hands, He wants joyful hearts. Let this be a heart check toda...

When will blessings chase you down and overtake you? 

Sometimes the answer is in the presence of my enemies.

YOU MEAN TO TELL ME THAT THE BLESSINGS OF THE LORD WILL BE SEEN IN THE CONTEXT OF ENEMIES AND BATTLES? Exactly.  sometimes enemies are required to most clearly see His hand.

The spiritual life is not lived absent conflict.  It is lived absent aloneness.

Please come back tomorrow.  Lord willing, I'll be here if He gives me a...

God makes a nationwide morality play in Deuteronomy 27 and 28. ½ the people play the good guys, and ½ the nation plays the bad guys.  The whole country literally has a part.  They stand on the dividing lines of good vs. evil.  

Everybody speaks so that they understood the choice before them.  Everybody understands the consequences.  

Don't we all similarly understand that we get to choose, but choose under the watchful eye of th...

God is asks us for a response to all that He does for us. 

He sets His love upon us. He chooses us. He walks in our midst.

We can give Him ½ a heart, or probably even a 1/16th of a heart.  He asks for the whole enchilada. 

He'll picture our ideal response quite literally today:Even the rocks bear witness to the full hearted response that God wishes. Listen 7 minutes. Like. subscribe. share. re-post. Make a whole-hearted response.

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu didn't forget something God told his people 3500 years prior to specifically not  forget. He remembered the Amalekites. Not only that, he asked the world today to not forget the Amalekites.

The reference is the very chapter we are on as we are walking thru Deuteronomy.  It is there Moses is commanded to "blot out the memory" of the Amalekites. Join me as we ask about his application o...

God wants a bunch of OXEN in His church.  Working. Laboring. Eating voraciously. He wants everybody to be using their gifts for His kingdom. Every single person should have an answer to the question: "Where do you serve?"

The relevance of this ancient verse is reinforced by two significant reiterations of it in the New Testament.  It is there that the full meaning of our ancient passage is brought forth.  It is about more ...

Kidnapping is an easy one.  It is the only "theft" (the theft of another person) that is punishable by death.

We shuld be treating others as if we are before the Lord God be cause we really ARE before the Lord. 

So then, if you KNEW that your financial actions were done before the eye of the Lord your God, what would have to change? What should change? Consider this "OLD" principles, which are perfectly applicable...

We live in a world of wars but you get to chose a wife

         We live in a world of Hostilities, and I have provided for you a husband 

If you are not married, sow the seeds that make you marriage-ready. 75% of the time the problem isn’t FINDING "the right one" it is BEING the right one. Grow in purity; grow as a provider, grow in preparation, Grow in prayer for a future spouse—they likely are struggling just as much with...

In an unfallen world there would be marriage but  no divorce. However, we do not live in such a world.  Are there any principles that guide the nasty business of divorce?

God's eyes are upon marriage, and God's eyes are upon divorce.  Surely, this is going to affect more than just two people. 

We all know there are indeed ripple effects from divorce. He calls us in the midst of all this fallenness, do "not bring sin up...

Did you know that LIONS have taste buds specifically tuned to the diet they are designed for? They cannot taste Skittles, and they MUST taste meat.

Similarly, we are designed for God. Our hearts are set on Him, even if we don't quite have it all figured out.  Like the lion's taste receptors, ours are specifically tuned towards God and flavor and satisfaction is found only in Him.

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There is something special about Sunday church.  It is supposed to be SOOO special, that to be prevented from attending would be a grief to you.  This could happen from church discipline, illness, or force of habit. 

It should be painful because it is there that "the Lord walks in the midst of your camp." That is, His presence is uniquely and powerfully present in the center of His people. Missing church should hurt so muc...