| By Andy Moyle | 4 mins 7 secs | 0 Comments
It’s always gratifying, as parents, when people compliment our children, not just because we are proud of who they are as individuals, but because we are relieved that our parenting has borne fruit! It’s perfectly normal that we should want our children to uphold our values and represent us well. We hope to sow foundations […]
| By Andy Moyle | 3 mins 10 secs | 0 Comments
I don’t know about you, but when I read this passage the first time I thought “that is a lot of things they are told to do.” You shall this, and you shall that, how can you love someone when you are told you have to. In verses 4-19 (at least in the ESV) the […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 37 secs | 0 Comments
This rather long chapter is an exposition of the first verse “And now, O Israel, listen to the statues and rules that I am teaching you and do them, that you may live, and go in and take possession of the land that the Lord, the God of your Fathers is giving you.” It calls […]
| By Andy Moyle | 3 mins 38 secs | 0 Comments
Have you ever been on a journey that you couldn’t wait to see the back of? I can recall casually joining my wife for a 5k run a few years ago. I had never run 5k prior to this. And sure enough close to having started, each one of my limbs began to wave the […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 45 secs | 0 Comments
On the 6th Feb, we looked at Exodus 17 where the people of God got thirsty and Moses struck a rock and water flowed. Today they are thirsty again and instead of praying, they start moaning again! They are so full of unbelief and a bad attitude – which provokes Moses to make a big […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 30 secs | 0 Comments
The spies had brought back to reports of the Promised Land Let us do it We can’t do this even though God has promised The spies had come as representatives of each tribe, so they reports reflected the whole nation. Even going, we discover from the retelling in Deut 1:19-25 was the people’s idea not […]
| By Andy Moyle | 3 mins 32 secs | 0 Comments
God has already told Moses that the Promised Land he is calling them to flows with “milk and honey” (Exodus 3:8) and he has told the people (Exodus 13:5). When Moses tells the story 40 years later in Deuteronomy he blames the people for the idea of spying out the land. In Numbers 13 God […]
| By Andy Moyle | 3 mins 33 secs | 0 Comments
The day of atonement, known as Yom Kippur in the Jewish tradition, was a particular day in the Old Testament year when sacrifices were made to cover the sins of the Israelite population as a whole. This was such a special occasion that it was also the only day that the High Priest was allowed […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 32 secs | 0 Comments
It’s a long passage this morning that shows us the seriousness of sin and our need of Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross. Sin is everything that is inconsistent with God’s righteousness. You may have noticed the words “sins unintentionally” prefacing each category of sinner in the chapter. The provisions here are for people who basically […]