Month: September 2024

You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. Deuteronomy 6:5 In 25 years of marriage, my understanding of love has radically changed. When we first dated, I was infatuated with my wife. I had an intense emotional attachment – a passionate feeling…
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Oh that they had such a heart as this always, to fear me and to keep all my commandments, that it might go well with them and with their descendants forever! Deuteronomy 5:29 When I was young, I’m sure my parents had hopes and dreams for me. I know they wanted what was best for…
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I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.  Deuteronomy 5:9-10 For anyone new to the blog, I write daily…
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And Moses summoned all Israel and said to them, “Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the rules that I speak in your hearing today, and you shall learn them and be careful to do them.” Deuteronomy 5:1 Growing up, I knew a few of those guys who were just natural athletes. They never lifted a…
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For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it. Hebrews 12:11 I’m a little late in writing the blog this morning, but then there’s nothing about this day that is going as planned. Right now, I’m supposed…
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Therefore you shall keep his statutes and his commandments, which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you . . . Deuteronomy 4:40 It’s natural for me to want the good life. That’s not wrong. Where I’ve gone wrong, is in where I’ve looked for it.…
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When you are in tribulation, and all these things come upon you in the latter days, you will return to the LORD your God and obey his voice. Deuteronomy 4:30 As I spoke recently to a junior high and high school assembly, I remembered back to my own junior high when an inmate from the…
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Since you saw no form on the day that the LORD spoke to you at Horeb out of the midst of the fire, beware lest you act corruptly by making a carved image for yourselves, in the form of any figure . . . Deuteronomy 4:15-16 As I’ve mentioned previously, I grew up in church…
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For what great nation is there that has a god so near to it as the LORD our God is to us, whenever we call upon him? Deuteronomy 4:7 When our kids were 9 and 10, we took a family trip out to the Black Hills in western South Dakota. We had a great time,…
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In the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses spoke to the people of Israel according to all that the LORD had given him in commandment to them . . . Deuteronomy 1:3 As I mentioned recently, last week marked 10 years of sobriety for me. This is always a time…
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