Category Archives: Numbers

Just A Name

Posted on March 6, 2015 by Pete

I read a lot of good stuff this morning. In Numbers, the wilderness walkers are counted before they enter the land and Joshua is commissioned to succeed Moses (ch. 26 & 27). The reading in Matthew was a call to … Continue reading →

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Dwelling Alone

Posted on March 5, 2015 by Pete

Continuing my reading in Numbers and, this morning, spent some time reconsidering the goofy drama played out between Balak, king of Moab, and Balaam, prophet for hire (Numbers 22 -25). Balak sees the Israeli horde nearing his land. Fearing he’d … Continue reading →

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Honor Me

Posted on March 3, 2015 by Pete

I’ve read it before, but this morning it kind of bothers me afresh. They haven’t been perfect, but they’ve been faithful. They’ve spent four decades working together to lead their people out of bondage and into a land flowing with … Continue reading →

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He Stood Between . . .

Posted on March 2, 2015 by Pete

A bit of extended reading time in Numbers this morning (chapters 9 through 17). Crazy! It’s amazing what “doing community” in the wilderness can do to a nation. It has a way, it seems, of making people kind of cranky … Continue reading →

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Of Head and Of Heart

Posted on February 25, 2015 by Pete

This morning I encountered two provisions for someone to declare they were wholly the LORD’s. Two approaches that evidenced a willingness to pay a price that their all-out allegiance to the God of creation might be known. One was evidenced … Continue reading →

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Korah’s Trap

Posted on March 7, 2014 by Pete

Numbers 16. It was a power play . . . pure and simple. They wanted in . . . literally. Korah & Co. wanted in to the holy of holies. This son of Levi was ambitious and so he rose … Continue reading →

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A Matter of the Heart

Posted on March 3, 2014 by Pete

Reading in Numbers 6 this morning . . . the details concerning those who sign up for the vow of a Nazirite. This “special vow” is essentially a determination by a man or a woman, for a self-determined period of … Continue reading →

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My Team

Posted on February 28, 2014 by Pete

As I think back . . . for the most part, when I was a kid, I did ok in those lines. You know those lines where everybody was against the wall while “second captain, first pick” and “first captain, … Continue reading →

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God’s Girls

Posted on March 14, 2013 by Pete

Numbers ends with the story of five sisters . . . always grabs my attention . . . wonder why? Though the story is really not about them, but about God’s inheritance being preserved for God’s people, I do like … Continue reading →

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A Pilot Project

Posted on March 1, 2013 by Pete

Reading in Numbers 11 and it’s pretty apparent that Moses hits the wall. After about a year hanging out around Mt. Sinai . . . seeing the glory of God resting on the mount . . . receiving the word … Continue reading →

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