With an entire chapter given over to a song detailing how the people of Israel would turn away from God (Deuteronomy 32), and with the final chapter of the book recounting how Moses would not, after all, be allowed to go into the Promised Land with the rest of God’s…

God knows everything that happens before it happens. That has to be true, or there’s no way that God could tell the prophets about the future. That’s how Isaiah and Jeremiah could predict the fall of Jerusalem, and that’s how both of them knew things about Jesus hundreds of years…

It’s important to understand what passages like these are not saying. God is not saying that His people would be saved by their obedience – after all, He had already brought them out of slavery in Egypt and made them His own. God is also not saying that every time…

How are Christians called to help the poor? In Moses’ time, children without fathers and older women without husbands had no one to care for them. And sojourners were by definition people without roots in the community, without homes or land. And in an agricultural society, if you had no…

Bible Reading for March 17 – Deuteronomy 21-23 The different commandments found in the Law of Moses can’t all be interpreted in the same way, and today’s passage illustrates that point with three examples. Because Verses 6 and 7 deal with our responsibility to protect the environment, they are universal…

What sorts of things should good leaders do? Although we don’t have kings anymore, the rules we find in Deuteronomy 17:14-20 provide many helpful suggestions. Verse 16 says that kings shouldn’t acquire many horses – along with the chariots they pulled, they were the most fearsome armaments of the day….

We know Jesus taught us that the sum and substance of the Law of Moses is that we should love the Lord our God with all we are and all we have, and to love our neighbors just as much and in the same way that we love ourselves. Well,…

How do we know whom to believe? Politicians from opposite parties take up opposite positions, highlighting data to prove opposite points of view. Preachers interpret the same Scriptures in different ways. Even your own Facebook friends come to different conclusions about current events – some think the extreme measures taken…

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 did Moses have to give the Law to the people a second time? That’s what Deuteronomy means, second law. Why doesn’t the Bible just say at the end of Numbers, “And Moses told the people all the law again before they crossed over into Jordan? One big reason in…