Thinking Theologian

Podcast Episode 248 Today’s Reading, Deuteronomy 17-20 Title: Not All Prophets Are Godly Prophets                     Focal Scripture: Deuteronomy 18:20 “But the prophet who presumes to speak a message in my namethat I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods — that prophet must die.’” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Deuteronomy 21-23

Podcast Episode 247 Today’s Reading, Deuteronomy 14-16 Title: How To Treat the Poor Biblically                    Focal Scripture: Deuteronomy 15:8 “Instead, you are to open your hand to him and freely loanhim enough for whatever need he has.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Deuteronomy 17-20

Podcast Episode 246 Today’s Reading, Deuteronomy 11-13 Title: Doing Right In Your Own Eyes                   Focal Scripture: Deuteronomy 12:8 “You are not to do as we are doing here today; everyone isdoing whatever seems right in his own sight.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Deuteronomy 14-16

Podcast Episode 245 Today’s Reading, Deuteronomy 8-10 Title: Not All Worship the Same God                  Focal Scripture: Deuteronomy 8:19 “If you ever forget the Lord your God and follow other godsto serve them and bow in worship to them, I testify against you today that youwill certainly perish.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Deuteronomy 11-13

Podcast Episode 244 Today’s Reading, Deuteronomy 5-7 Title: Heart For the Lord                 Focal Scripture: Deuteronomy 5:29 “If only they had such a heart to fear me and keep all mycommands always, so that they and their children would prosper forever.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Deuteronomy 8-10

Podcast Episode 243 Today’s Reading, Deuteronomy 3-4 Title: The Lord Fights For Us                Focal Scripture: Deuteronomy 3:22 “Don’t be afraid of them, for the Lord your God fights foryou.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Deuteronomy 5-7

Podcast Episode 242 Today’s Reading, Deuteronomy 1-2 Title: The Right Type of Leader               Focal Scripture: Deuteronomy 1:13 “Appoint for yourselves wise, understanding, and respectedmen from each of your tribes, and I will make them your leaders.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Deuteronomy 3-4

Podcast Episode 241 Today’s Reading, Numbers 35-36 Title: Do Not Defile the Land              Focal Scripture: Numbers 35:33 “Do not defile the land where you live, for bloodsheddefiles the land, and there can be no atonement for the land because of theblood that is shed on it, except by the blood of the person who shed it.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Deuteronomy 1-2

Podcast Episode 240 Today’s Reading, Numbers 33-34 Title: Remembering the Journey             Focal Scripture: Numbers 33:37 “They traveled from Kadesh and camped at Mount Hor on theedge of the land of Edom.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Numbers 35-36

Podcast Episode 239 Today’s Reading, Numbers 31-32 Title: Being Equipped Properly            Focal Scripture: Numbers 31:3 “So Moses spoke to the people, “Equip some of your men forwar. They will go against Midian to inflict the Lord’s vengeance on them.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Numbers 33-34

Podcast Episode 238 Today’s Reading, Numbers 28-30 Title: Keep Your Word           Focal Scripture: Numbers 30:2 “When a man makes a vow to the Lord or swears an oath to puthimself under an obligation, he must not break his word; he must do whatever hehas promised.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Numbers 31-32

Podcast Episode 237 Today’s Reading, Numbers 26-27 Title: Godly Leaders Have the Spirit          Focal Scripture: Numbers 27:18 “The Lord replied to Moses, “Take Joshua son of Nun, a manwho has the Spirit in him, and lay your hands on him.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Numbers 28-30

Podcast Episode 236 Today’s Reading, Numbers 23-25 Title: With Whom Do You Align         Focal Scripture: Numbers 25:3 “So Israel aligned itself with Baal of Peor, and the Lord’sanger burned against Israel.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Numbers 26

Podcast Episode 235 Today’s Reading, Numbers 21-22 Title: Seeing With Spiritual Eyes         Focal Scripture: Numbers 22:31 “Then the Lord opened Balaam’s eyes, and he saw the angel ofthe Lord standing in the path with a drawn sword in his hand. Balaam knelt lowand bowed in worship on his face.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Numbers 23-25

Podcast Episode 234 Today’s Reading, Numbers 18-20 Title: Consequences For Disobedience        Focal Scripture: Numbers 20:12 “But the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did nottrust me to demonstrate my holiness in the sight of the Israelites, you willnot bring this assembly into the land I have given them.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Numbers 21-22

Podcast Episode 233 Today’s Reading, Numbers 16-17 Title: Stay Away From Wicked & Rebellious Leaders       Focal Scripture: Numbers 16:26 “He warned the community, “Get away now from the tents ofthese wicked men. Don’t touch anything that belongs to them, or you will beswept away because of all their sins.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Numbers 18-20

Podcast Episode 232 Today’s Reading, Numbers 14-15 Title: Some People Want to Go Backwards       Focal Scripture: Numbers 14:4 “So they said to one another, “Let’s appoint a leader and goback to Egypt.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Numbers 16-17

Podcast Episode 231 Today’s Reading, Numbers 11-13 Title: A Proper View of Oneself      Focal Scripture: Numbers 13:33 “We even saw the Nephilim there — the descendants of Anak comefrom the Nephilim! To ourselves we seemed like grasshoppers, and we must haveseemed the same to them.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Numbers 14-15

Podcast Episode 230 Today’s Reading, Numbers 8-10 Title: Follow The Lord     Focal Scripture: Numbers 9:17 “Whenever the cloud was lifted up above the tent, theIsraelites would set out; at the place where the cloud stopped, there theIsraelites camped.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Numbers 11-13

Podcast Episode 229 Today’s Reading, Numbers 7 Title: Good Leaders Show The Way    Focal Scripture: Numbers 7:2 “the leaders of Israel, the heads of their ancestralfamilies, presented an offering. They were the tribal leaders who supervisedthe registration.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Numbers 8-10

Podcast Episode 228 Today’s Reading, Numbers 5-6 Title: Keeping One’s Vow To The Lord   Focal Scripture: Numbers 6:21 ““These are the instructions about the Nazirite who vows hisoffering to the Lord for his consecration, in addition to whatever else he canafford; he must fulfill whatever vow he makes in keeping with the instructionsfor his consecration.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Numbers 7

Podcast Episode 227 Today’s Reading, Numbers 3-4 Title: A Judgement of Fire Focal Scripture: Numbers 3:4 “But Nadab and Abihu died in the Lord’s presence when theypresented unauthorized fire before the Lord in the Wilderness of Sinai, andthey had no sons. So Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests under the directionof Aaron their father.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Numbers 5-6

Podcast Episode 226 Today’s Reading, Numbers 1-2 Title: Preparation For Battle          Focal Scripture: Numbers 2:34 “The Israelites did everything the Lord commanded Moses;they camped by their banners in this way and moved out the same way, each manby his clan and by his ancestral family.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Numbers 3-4

Podcast Episode 225 Today’s Reading, Leviticus 26-27 Title: Consequences of Idol Worship         Focal Scripture: Leviticus 26:1 ““Do not make worthless idols for yourselves, set up acarved image or sacred pillar for yourselves, or place a sculpted stone in yourland to bow down to it, for I am the Lord your God.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Numbers 1-2

Podcast Episode 224 Today’s Reading, Leviticus 24-25 Title: The Lord’s Provision        Focal Scripture: Leviticus 25:22 “When you sow in the eighth year, you will be eating fromthe previous harvest. You will be eating this until the ninth year when itsharvest comes in.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Genesis Exodus Leviticus 26-27