Category: Scripture

This week the readings completed Judges (chapters 7-21), the entire book of Ruth, 1 Chronicles 2 , 1 Chronicles 4, and the first 8 verses of 1 Samuel. For this blog post I'm going to focus on the events of Judges. Judges is a book that spans three to four hundred years in the history [...]

This week's readings completed Joshua (Chapters 12-24), followed by a related passage in 1 Chronicles 6:54-81, and then began Judges chapters 1-6. The latter part of Joshua details the dividing up and boundaries of the land of Canaan to the twelve tribes of Israel. Two and a half tribes were given land east of the [...]

[Placeholder for video to come later - I'm out of the video production mode right now!] This week our readings completed Deuteronomy (chapters 26-34), then jumped to Psalm 90, and finished with Joshua 1-12. Last week I wrote about how Deuteronomy was Moses' instructions to the new generation of Israelites, whose parents had died in [...]

[Placeholder for video to come later - I'm out of the video production mode right now!] This week's readings came from Deuteronomy 1-25. There are still nine chapters left in the book, but I'll go ahead and speak to the book in its entirety here. The Israelites, at this point in their history, find themselves [...]

[Placeholder for video to come later] This week our Bible passages are found in Numbers 19-36 which mainly takes place near the end of the forty years spent wandering in the wilderness. As I mentioned last week, the book of Numbers begins with the Israelites camped at the base of Mount Sinai. God instructs them [...]