In a couple of weeks, I’m going to preach at Exodus Church in Bloomington, Indiana. I’m pretty hyped about this for a number of reasons. My plan right now is to talk about the number one message that God has pounded into me since 2004. WHAT?! Yes. Since sometime around then, God has been beating…
Deuteronomy 6: 4-5 Listen, Israel: The Lord is our God, the Lord is one! You must love the Lord your God with your whole mind, your whole being, and all your strength. There are a lot of folks that go in to great detail about the soul. They try to make us a trinity like…
In Numbers 12, there is a pretty common biblical event: Then Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman he had married (for he had married an Ethiopian woman). They said, “Has the Lord only spoken through Moses? Has he not also spoken through us?” And the Lord heard it. Some people…
Exodus 18:6-8 6 He said to Moses, “I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you, along with your wife and her two sons with her.” 7 Moses went out to meet his father-in-law and bowed down and kissed him; they each asked about the other’s welfare, and then they went into the tent. 8…
And he said to them, “Thus says the Lord God of Israel, ‘Put your sword on your side each of you, and go to and fro from gate to gate throughout the camp, and each of you kill his brother and his companion and his neighbor.’” … “Thus says the Lord God of Israel, ‘Put your sword on your side each of you, and go to and fro from gate to gate throughout the camp, and each of you kill his brother and his companion and his neighbor.’
Here is God, overlooking some blatant screw-ups during one of His most important holy days: Celebrated in the wrong month Celebrated by unprepared priests & Levites (should have only been priests that were clean) Celebrated by people that were unclean Celebrated by many people that weren’t even Jewish! Celebrated longer than God ever ordered it to be Celebrated in ways God never intended (with sacrifices from the king in addition to being from the people) Next time you are at church (if you know me, you know I’m the “you” in this sentence) and you want to gripe or be critical about the way things are being done, look at this hot mess in 2 Chronicles 30.
Your God and the God of your father has given you treasure in your sacks. s I had your money.” t Then he brought Simeon out to them.
… The guard got his money for their grain, which means that when Joseph had his men put money back in their bags when they were there last, he put money from his own account in there.
When David had settled into his palace, he said to Nathan the prophet, “Look, I am living in a palace made from cedar, while the ark of the Lord’s covenant is under a tent.” (1 Chronicles 17:1 NET) David wants to build a house for God. God says no. “I raised you to be a…
Here is an old video I came across on thoughts on fellowship offerings in Joel.
His talk was really good. 
After a day of some religious and worldly wisdom it was really good to focus on the fact that the most important things in this world can only be done by God. It’s worth it to read this passage from 2 Kings 3 
