10.2 Chapter 10 – Recommit

“In view of all this, we are making a binding agreement, putting it in writing, and our leaders, our Levites and our priests are affixing their seals to it.”

“The rest of the people—priests, Levites, gatekeepers, singers, temple servants and all who separated themselves from the neighboring peoples for the sake of the Law of [...]

9.5 The Father’s Forgiveness

Ever find yourself wondering if God can really forgive you after you’ve failed Him yet again? I do. I’ve learned so much about God’s limitless forgiveness when I repent (yes, even if it’s the 32,121st time) from my struggles with sexual purity.

Remember the prodigal son? You may have thought of him as a metaphor [...]

9.3 First and Foremost

Remember the story of Cain and Abel? Read this scripture carefully:

Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil. In the course of time Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil as an offering to the LORD. But Abel brought fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock. The LORD looked [...]

9.1 Keeping Your Walls Strong

When the seventh month came and the Israelites had settled in their towns, all the people assembled as one man in the square before the Water Gate. They told Ezra the scribe to bring out the Book of the Law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded for Israel.
So on the first day of [...]

8.6 Pure vs. Impure

These searched for their family records, but they could not find them and so were excluded from the priesthood as unclean. (Nehemiah 7:64)

Verses 4-63 of chapter seven list the exiles who returned. The list ends with Nehemiah’s note that those who could not prove their family lineage were excluded from the priesthood as unclean. Some [...]

5.14 Not What God Intended

Satan loves to get us to go after God’s will in ways God never intended. He knows that righteous goals achieved with unrighteous means are dishonoring to God. Adam and Eve desired to be like God, so they ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. It was a righteous goal – [...]