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In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team), God is a God of order, clarity, and provision. He instructs Israel to obey every detail of the life He designs so they may flourish in the land He gives them. He is their God, and they are His people. A lot is required to make this happen. Let’s dive into today’s reading! ©2023joelstrahan

In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team), What is dedicated to the Lord is the Lord's. It will belong under the covering of the Levite's stewardship--unless the giver redeems the offering. If this is the case, the monetary offering of redemption must add to the offering's value. The first census is taken. God raises up a nation through whom He will show...

In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team), God's law demonstrates His desire for the flourishing of His people. Their seasons of crisis will expose their defiant hearts and lead them to repentance. God loves His people and disciplines His children as a father. Let’s dive into today’s reading! ©2023joelstrahan

In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team), What seems not to apply to our lives, applies very intimately! If you finished reading today and wondered why these details matter for believers or nonbelievers in 2023, Let’s dive into today’s reading! ©2023joelstrahan

In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team), For the third day in a row, parental discretion is suggested before listening to today's podcast with children. Leviticus 20 must be discussed today. Parents, have a listen before you are joined by your children today. God is holy. Therefore, His covenant people must be holy. Israel must put God's commands into...

In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team), If you listen to this podcast with your children, consider that today’s reading addresses sexual immorality in a very explicit way. Parental discretion is once again suggested. God contrasts the worship He designed for sinners to by faith enjoy the blessings of His presence among them. He also contrasts the sexu...

In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team), If you listen to this podcast with your children, be aware that today’s reading includes instructions about marital intimacy. Although I will only briefly mention this subject, parental discretion is required today. Instructions for the protection of the community continue. One person’s germs may impact other co...

In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team), God loves Israel. Because the entire nation is raised in Egypt, God inserts a first through sixth-grade curriculum in personal hygiene. Israel must learn from scratch what is clean and unclean. The practices of the land they left must not continue in the Land of Promise. Let’s dive into today’s reading! ©2023joe...

In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team), God administers His sovereignty by responding to man's thoughts and actions. He demonstrates His watchful eye on the activities of the sacrificial system by confirming both obedience and disobedience. He also demonstrates that His law is not meant to be oppressive. Instead, He desires the flourishing of His peop...

In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team), The seriousness of sin must not be understated, ignored, or lessened. In order for Holy God to live among His people, His covenant terms must be adhered to. On the Mountain, God gives Moses stewardship of Israel’s requirements as covenant members. These offerings allow Israel to understand their desperate need f...

In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team), The offerings prescribed by God are for the people. By participating in the offering system, worshipers expose their hearts and behavior to the community. The ceremonial elements of each offering allow the worshiper to confirm in every generation that God is always administering grace in order to bless His peopl...

In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team), The Ten Commandments provide God’s framework terms for His covenant with Israel. They must worship Him rightly and honor other covenant members appropriately. Both terms are multi-layered. Israel’s worship requires the role of the firstborn to administer the covenant. God demands it, and the people must acknowle...

Have a question from today’s reading? Submit your question to jstrahan@slaydenbaptist.com. I may feature your question in an episode! In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team), The glory of God’s presence, the glory of the tabernacle, and God’s pleasure in the obedience of His people is reflected in the twelve tribe’s desire to make offerings of dedicati...

Have a question from today's reading? Submit your question t o jstrahan@slaydenbaptist.com. I may feature your question in an episode! In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team), Evaluation is a part of God’s character. God evaluates all things according to the standard of His word. So we may know Him intimately, understand what He says about Himself, and...

In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team), the tabernacle construction is well on its way! God's earthly dwelling place among His people. It's a fascinating look at God's meticulous plan and the Israelites' dedication to fulfilling it. Here's what we'll uncover today: Precision in Construction:  We'll see how God's instruc...

In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team), Israel meets their second chance to appropriate faith to a forty-day and night wait with readiness. They are ready to begin work on the tabernacle. God’s covenant community must first willingly long for God’s presence among them by giving back a portion of the wealth God bestowed on them. Those with special abil...

In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team), Shortly after Israel commits itself to obey God’s terms for covenant with them, many throw away the glory of God’s blessing for the shame of self-pleasure in idol worship. God’s wrath is terrifying, but His mercy remains. God values intercessory prayer. The story of the Bible—all of it—teaches us important lesso...

In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team), Moses is on the Mountain with God for forty days and nights. During this time, God commits Moses to pass on to the people specific instructions concerning the ordination of the priests, daily sacrifices, the incense altar, required offerings, the washbasin, anointing oil, incense oil, and the craftsmen for the e...

In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team), What God mentions to Abraham in the past only in pieces, He now reveals is part of a grander plan. He administers the redemption plan according to His design from the beginning. The tabernacle ensures that the religion of Israel is shown to be relational. Idol worship demands religious activity. However, worship...

In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team), God enters into covenant with the nation He promised Abraham. The story of redemption takes another step toward the fulfillment of the Seed promised to Eve. God’s terms for covenant—the law—will preserve a holy people unto the Lord until the coming of the Messiah. God demands to be worshiped rightly. He also dem...

In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team), God is holy. The law is God’s terms for His dwelling among the people. God calls the nation into covenant with Him by stating the terms of the covenant. They must love God with all their hearts. They must love other covenant members with all their hearts. God’s law deprograms Israel from the idol worship of Egyp...

In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team), One month after the Passover, the Red Sea Event, the people complain because of their stomachs. Hunger and thirst cause the people to forget who is leading them. Yet, God provides for them. God prepares Joshua for the second chapter of his life. And God fulfills the sign He gave to Moses. God brought them back t...

In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team), God provides for His people. He prepares them today for what He knows they will need in the future. God is not only preparing the Israelites for their future in the wilderness. He is also preparing future generations to know that He is God. There will not always be eyewitnesses of this event in the future. Knowi...

In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team), Pharaoh is not allowed to repent. Even though he progressively desires deliverance from the consequences of rejecting God, his desires are met with a resounding declaration—he is too late. Through the ten plagues, God makes a spectacle of Pharaoh and Egypt. The Passover stands as the climax of God’s revelatory a...

In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team), God patiently torments Pharaoh and the Egyptian people through plagues because they have all rejected God. Sometimes God’s judgment is executed swiftly. Sometimes God allows a passage of time between the pronouncement of judgment and the execution of judgment. God exposes the Egyptian gods as frauds. Pharaoh—als...