Thinking Theologian

Podcast Episode 623 Today’s Reading, Deuteronomy 8-10 Title: The Lord Takes Care of the Details Focal Scripture: Deuteronomy 8:4 “Your clothing did not wear out, and your feet did not swell these forty years.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Deuteronomy 11-13

Podcast Episode 622 Today’s Reading, Deuteronomy 5-7 Title: Love the Lord Your God Focal Scripture: Deuteronomy 6:5 “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Deuteronomy 8-10

Podcast Episode 621 Today’s Reading, Deuteronomy 3-4 Title: Teach the Ways of the Lord to the Next Generation Focal Scripture: Deuteronomy 4:9 “Only be on your guard and diligently watch yourselves, so that you don’t forget the things your eyes have seen and so that they don’t slip from your mind as long as you live. Teach them to your children and your grandchildren.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading...

Podcast Episode 620 Today’s Reading, Deuteronomy 1-2 Title: The Lord Works Ahead of His People Focal Scripture: Deuteronomy 2:25 “Today I will begin to put the fear and dread of you on the peoples everywhere under heaven. They will hear the report about you, tremble, and be in anguish because of you.’” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Deuteronomy 3-4

Podcast Episode 619 Today’s Reading, Numbers 35-36 Title: Taking Care of the Priests Focal Scripture: Numbers 35:3 “The cities will be for them to live in, and their pasturelands will be for their herds, flocks, and all their other animals.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Deuteronomy 1-2

Podcast Episode 618 Today’s Reading, Numbers 33-34 Title: Fulfill the Commands of the Lord Focal Scripture: Numbers 33:55 “But if you don’t drive out the inhabitants of the land before you, those you allow to remain will become barbs for your eyes and thorns for your sides; they will harass you in the land where you will live.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Numbers 35-36

Podcast Episode 617 Today’s Reading, Numbers 31-32 Title: Loyalty to the Lord Matters Focal Scripture: Numbers 32:11 “‘Because they did not remain loyal to me, none of the men twenty years old or more who came up from Egypt will see the land I swore to give Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob —” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Numbers 33-34

Podcast Episode 616 Today’s Reading, Numbers 28-30 Title: Daily Sacrifice Focal Scripture: Numbers 28:4 “Offer one lamb in the morning and the other lamb at twilight,” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Numbers 31-32

Podcast Episode 615 Today’s Reading, Numbers 26-27 Title: Importance of Having A Shepherd Focal Scripture: Numbers 27:17 “who will go out before them and come back in before them, and who will bring them out and bring them in, so that the Lord’s community won’t be like sheep without a shepherd.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Numbers 28-30

Podcast Episode 614 Today’s Reading, Numbers 23-25 Title: A Duplicitous Heart Focal Scripture: Numbers 25:4 “The Lord said to Moses, “Take all the leaders of the people and execute them in broad daylight before the Lord so that his burning anger may turn away from Israel.”” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Numbers 26-27

Podcast Episode 613 Today’s Reading, Numbers 21-22 Title: Pray For Open Eyes Focal Scripture: Numbers “But since my servant Caleb has a different spirit and has remained loyal to me, I will bring him into the land where he has gone, and his descendants will inherit it.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Numbers 23-25

Podcast Episode 612 Today’s Reading, Numbers 18-20 Title: Even Leadership Has Consequences For Disobedience Focal Scripture: Numbers 20:11 “Then Moses raised his hand and struck the rock twice with his staff, so that abundant water gushed out, and the community and their livestock drank.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Numbers 21-22

Podcast Episode 611 Today’s Reading, Numbers 16-17 Title: Opposition To Leadership Focal Scripture: Numbers 16:2 “two hundred fifty prominent Israelite men who were leaders of the community and representatives in the assembly, and they rebelled against Moses.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Numbers 18-20

Podcast Episode 610 Today’s Reading, Numbers 14-15 & Psalms 90 Title: Have A Different Spirit Focal Scripture: Numbers 14:24 “But since my servant Caleb has a different spirit and has remained loyal to me, I will bring him into the land where he has gone, and his descendants will inherit it.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Numbers 16-17

Podcast Episode 609 Today’s Reading, Numbers 11-13 Title: A Complaining Heart Focal Scripture: Numbers 11:1 “Now the people began complaining openly before the Lord about hardship. When the Lord heard, his anger burned, and fire from the Lord blazed among them and consumed the outskirts of the camp.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Numbers 14-15 & Psalms 90

Podcast Episode 608 Today’s Reading, Numbers Title: Remembering the Lords Provision Focal Scripture: Numbers 9:2 “The Israelites are to observe the Passover at its appointed time.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Numbers 11-13

Podcast Episode 607 Today’s Reading, Numbers 7 Title: Leading By Example Focal Scripture: Numbers 7:10 “The leaders also presented the dedication gift for the altar when it was anointed. The leaders presented their offerings in front of the altar.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Numbers 8-10

Podcast Episode 606 Today’s Reading, Numbers 5-6 Title: The Priestly Blessing Focal Scripture: Numbers 6:24-26 “May the Lord bless you and protect you; may the Lord make his face shine on you and be gracious to you; may the Lord look with favor on you and give you peace.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Numbers 7

Podcast Episode 605 Today’s Reading, Numbers 3-4 Title: God of Order in Worship Focal Scripture: Numbers 4:30 “Register men from thirty years old to fifty years old, everyone who is qualified to do the work of the tent of meeting.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Numbers 5-6

Podcast Episode 604 Today’s Reading, Numbers 1-2 Title: The Lord Speaks Focal Scripture: Numbers 2:1 “The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron:” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Numbers 3-4

Podcast Episode 603 Today’s Reading, Leviticus 26-27 Title: Worthless Idols Focal Scripture: Leviticus 26:1 ““Do not make worthless idols for yourselves, set up a carved image or sacred pillar for yourselves, or place a sculpted stone in your land to bow down to it, for I am the Lord your God.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Numbers 1-2

Podcast Episode 602 Today’s Reading, Leviticus 24-25 Title: Ministry is Not Always Glamorous Focal Scripture: Leviticus 24:4 “He must continually tend the lamps on the pure gold lampstand in the Lord’s presence.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Leviticus 26-27

Podcast Episode 601 Today’s Reading, Leviticus 22-23 Title: Knowing When To Rest Focal Scripture: Leviticus 22:3 “Work may be done for six days, but on the seventh day there is to be a Sabbath of complete rest, a sacred assembly. You are not to do any work; it is a Sabbath to the Lord wherever you live.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Leviticus 24-25

Podcast Episode 600 Today’s Reading, Leviticus 19-21 Title: Be Holy, Because He Is Holy Focal Scripture: Leviticus 20:26 “You are to be holy to me because I, the Lord, am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be mine.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Leviticus 22-23

Podcast Episode 599 Today’s Reading, Leviticus 16-18 Title: Don’t Follow the Culture of the World 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 Leviticus 19-21