Is That Cow Pointing at Me?

Now the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying to them, “Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ’These are the animals which you may eat among all the animals that are on the earth: Among the animals, whatever divides the hoof, having cloven hooves and chewing the cud–that you may eat…For I am the [...]

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Dead or Alive: Being An Example to Others

An Example to Others
Then Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer and put fire in it, put incense on it, and offered profane fire before the Lord, which He had not commanded them. So fire went out from the Lord and devoured them, and they died before the Lord. And Moses [...]

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Do You Pray in Jesus’ Name?

And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the [...]

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Camping and Marathons

Moses took his tent and pitched it outside the camp, far from the camp, and called it the tabernacle of meeting. And it came to pass that everyone who sought the Lord went out to the tabernacle of meeting which was outside the camp. So it was, whenever Moses went out to the tabernacle, that [...]

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Grace, Good News, and Gravity

Moreover the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: “Also take for yourself quality spices–five hundred shekels of liquid myrrh, half as much sweet-smelling cinnamon (two hundred and fifty shekels), two hundred and fifty shekels of sweet-smelling cane, five hundred shekels of cassia, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, and a hin of olive oil…And you [...]

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Ransoming the Soul

When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel after their number, then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul unto the LORD… Exodus 30:12a
Does this passage suggest that a person’s soul–his very salvation can be acquired for a price? Sadly there are some sects that have taken this verse to [...]

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The Day of Prayer…the Day After

“You shall make an altar to burn incense on…” Exodus 30:1
No Coincidences
I do not believe it to be coincidence that this passage was the focus of my Bible study today—the day after the National Day of Prayer. For those of you who participated in yesterday’s event, I hope you do not see it as coincidence [...]

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Holy Wholly

You shall also make a plate of pure gold and engrave on it, like the engraving of a signet: HOLINESS TO THE LORD. Exodus 28:36
Jon Courson tells the story of overhearing his son talking with some friends. The conversation surrounded the issue of the external affects of consuming too many beans in one’s diet. Needless [...]

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Bells and Whistles Just Don’t Cut it

Its all about Bells and Pomegranates
You shall make the robe of the ephod all of blue. There shall be an opening for his head in the middle of it; it shall have a woven binding all around its opening, like the opening in a coat of mail, so that it does not tear. “And upon [...]

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Assimilation and Diversity in Christ

Then you shall take two onyx stones and engrave on them the names of the sons of Israel: six of their names on one stone, and six names on the other stone, in order of their birth…And you shall put the two stones on the shoulders of the ephod as memorial stones for the sons [...]

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