Thinking Theologian

Podcast Episode 223 Today’s Reading, Leviticus 22-23 Title: The Practice of Self Denial       Focal Scripture: Leviticus 23:27 ““The tenth day of this seventh month is the Day ofAtonement. You are to hold a sacred assembly and practice self-denial; you areto present a food offering to the Lord.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Genesis Exodus Leviticus 24-25

Podcast Episode 222 Today’s Reading, Leviticus 19-21 Title: Know The Lord’s Statutes      Focal Scripture: Leviticus 20:22 ““You are to keep all my statutes and all my ordinances, and do them, so that the land where I am bringing you to live will not vomit you out.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Genesis Exodus Leviticus 22-23

Podcast Episode 221 Today’s Reading, Leviticus 16-18 Title: Be Different      Focal Scripture: Leviticus 18:3 “Do not follow the practices of the land of Egypt, where you used to live, or follow the practices of the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you. You must not follow their customs.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Genesis Exodus Leviticus 19-21

Podcast Episode 220 Today’s Reading, Leviticus 14-15 Title: Cleanliness Matters     Focal Scripture: Leviticus 15:31 ““You must keep the Israelites from their uncleanness, so that they do not die by defiling my tabernacle that is among them.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Genesis Exodus Leviticus 16-18

Podcast Episode 219 Today’s Reading, Leviticus 11-13 Title: Be Holy Because God is Holy    Focal Scripture: Leviticus 11:44 “For I am the Lord your God, so you must consecrate yourselves and be holy because I am holy. Do not defile yourselves by any swarming creature that crawls on the ground.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Genesis Exodus Leviticus 14-15

Podcast Episode 218 Today’s Reading, Leviticus 8-10 Title: The Weight of Ordination   Focal Scripture: Leviticus 8:22 “He poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron’s head and anointed and consecrated him.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Genesis Exodus Leviticus 11-13

Podcast Episode 217 Today’s Reading, Leviticus 5-7      Title: The Guilt Offering   Focal Scripture: Leviticus 7:2 “The guilt offering is to be slaughtered at the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered, and the priest is to splatter its blood on all sides of the altar.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Genesis Exodus Leviticus 8-10

Podcast Episode 216 Today’s Reading, Leviticus 1-4     Title: Lead By Example Focal Scripture: Leviticus 4:3    “If the anointed priest sins, bringing guilt on the people, he is to present to the Lord a young, unblemished bull as a sin offering for the sin he has committed.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Genesis Exodus Leviticus 5-7

Podcast Episode 215 Today’s Reading, Exodus 39-40    Title: Knowing When To Make A Journey   Focal Scripture: Exodus 40:36   “The Israelites set out whenever the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle throughout all the stages of their journey.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Genesis Exodus Leviticus 1-4

Podcast Episode 214 Today’s Reading, Exodus 36-38    Title: Hearts In Tune With the Lord   Focal Scripture: Exodus 36:2 “So Moses summoned Bezalel, Oholiab, and every skilled person in whose heart the Lord had placed wisdom, all whose hearts moved them, to come to the work and do it.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Genesis Exodus 39-40

Podcast Episode 213 Today’s Reading, Exodus 33-35    Title: Show Me Your Glory Focal Scripture: Exodus 33:18 “Then Moses said, “Please, let me see your glory.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Genesis Exodus 36-38

Podcast Episode 212 Today’s Reading, Exodus 30-32    Title: The Cost of Impatience Focal Scripture: Exodus 32:1 “When the people saw that Moses delayed in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said to him, “Come, make gods for us who will go before us because this Moses, the man who brought us up from the land of Egypt — we don’t know what has happened to him!”” Tomorrow, I...

Podcast Episode 211 Today’s Reading, Exodus 28-29    Title: Preparation To Serve The Lord                       Focal Scripture: Exodus 29:10 ““You are to bring the bull to the front of the tent of meeting, and Aaron and his sons must lay their hands on the bull’s head.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Genesis Exodus 30-32

Podcast Episode 210 Today’s Reading, Exodus 25-27    Title: The Atonement Cover                      Focal Scripture: Exodus 25:22 “I will meet with you there above the mercy seat, between the two cherubim that are over the ark of the testimony; I will speak with you from there about all that I command you regarding the Israelites.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Genesis Exodus 28-29

Podcast Episode 209 Today’s Reading, Exodus 22-24    Title: Don’t Follow the Crows In Wrongdoing                     Focal Scripture: Exodus 23:2 “You must not follow a crowd in wrongdoing. Do not testify in a lawsuit and go along with a crowd to pervert justice.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Genesis Exodus 25-27

Podcast Episode 208 Today’s Reading, Exodus 19-21    Title: Chosen By God                    Focal Scripture: Exodus 19:5   “Now if you will carefully listen to me and keep my covenant, you will be my own possession out of all the peoples, although the whole earth is mine,” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Genesis Exodus 22-24

Podcast Episode 207 Today’s Reading, Exodus 16-18    Title: The Lord Who Meets Our Needs                   Focal Scripture: Exodus 17:7   “He named the place Massah and Meribah because the Israelites complained, and because they tested the Lord, saying, “Is the Lord among us or not?” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Genesis Exodus 19-21

Podcast Episode 206 Today’s Reading, Exodus 13-15    Title: When God Leads You to a Dead End                  Focal Scripture: Exodus 13:8   “So he led the people around toward the Red Sea along the road of the wilderness. And the Israelites left the land of Egypt in battle formation.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Genesis Exodus 16-18

Podcast Episode 205 Today’s Reading, Exodus 10-12   Title: Prepared For What’s to Come                 Focal Scripture: Exodus 12:11   “Here is how you must eat it: You must be dressed for travel, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand.  You are to eat it in a hurry; it is the Lord’s Passover.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Genesis Exodus 13-15

Podcast Episode 204 Today’s Reading, Exodus 7-9   Title: Your Beliefs Are Evident To Those Around You                Focal Scripture: Exodus 9:30   “But as for you and your officials, I know that you still do not fear the Lord God.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Genesis Exodus 10-12

Podcast Episode 203 Today’s Reading, Exodus 4-6   Title: A Plea to Stay Comfortable                Focal Scripture: Exodus 4:13   “Moses said, “Please, Lord, send someone else.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Genesis Exodus 7-9

Podcast Episode 202 Today’s Reading, Exodus 1-3   Title: Faith On Display               Focal Scripture: Exodus 2:3 “But when she could no longer hide him, she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with asphalt and pitch. She placed the child in it and set it among the reeds by the bank of the Nile.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Genesis Exodus 4-6   

Podcast Episode 201 Today’s Reading, Genesis 48-50 Title: God’s Plans Are Greater               Focal Scripture: Genesis 50:20 “You planned evil against me; God planned it for good to bring about the present result — the survival of many people.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Genesis Exodus 1-3   

Podcast Episode 200 Today’s Reading, Genesis 46-47 Title: Trust In God’s Promises              Focal Scripture: Genesis 46:4 “I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also bring you back. Joseph will close your eyes when you die.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Genesis 48-50  

Podcast Episode 199 Today’s Reading, Genesis 43-45 Title: The Providence of God             Focal Scripture: Genesis 45:8    “Therefore it was not you who sent me here, but God. He has made me a father to Pharaoh, Lord of his entire household, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Genesis 46-47