“Lord, how happy is anyone you discipline and teach from your law” (Ps. 94:12). Happy to be disciplined? Is that even possible? The writer of Hebrews said, “No discipline seems enjoyable at the time, but painful” (Heb. 12:11a). Unpleasant and painful sounds right. But then he said this: “Later on … it [discipline] yields the…
Read MoreFire can be tempting for some, especially brothers (and yes, I have a brother). Nabad and Abihu were brothers who played with fire and it cost them. At least a dozen ideas exist for explaining the strange or unauthorized fire these two brothers offered to God in Leviticus 10. The most probable explanations are that…
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“Woo-hoo! We’re in Leviticus!” (Words seldom heard in a Bible study group.) Maybe we could more easily enumerate the reasons we don’t love reading and studying Leviticus: It’s difficult to understand. It’s boring. It’s not relevant. Yes, Leviticus is a challenging book to understand. Boring? Maybe when you compare to other biblical books, like the…
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