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Leviticus 18 Paul Revere and the Bible

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  Good morning and Happy Fourth to all my readers in the USA. We are a rugged country of individualists and were founded in the treasonous acts of a few and dependence on God Himself! Yes, the men and women who founded the USA were committing treason against the UK, yet they are heroes in our eyes. Just read the Federalist Papers if you doubt God was a part of this process. Now that is as close to a political note as you will ever hear from The Daily Bible Challenge!   Today’s challenge is Leviticus 18, and so many of society’s woes would be resolved if we just followed God’s plan for us revealed in this chapter; just about every known perversion of man is covered in these few words. We have about nine more days of Levitical law to cover, and then we will be past one of the very hardest parts of the Daily Bible Challenge. I love the Bible, but even I cringe at entering into the book of Leviticus each year. Maybe some of you love this book, and if that is so, please share your ...
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Leviticus 17

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        Good Thursday morning, I finished my little contract job yesterday afternoon, and the small amount of add-ons requested. I will be invoicing this a little later this morning. My old bones had trouble with this job; I’m sore all over this morning as if I ran a marathon yesterday. It is probably just a side effect of Hashimoto's disease. It is tough to hear, but God seems to be telling me to slow down. I am not good at that, so maybe He is teaching me something about it! It is important to be listening to God for such lessons and not assume everything in life is a coincidence.   I had a friend send me a comment about all the detailed instructions in Leviticus and how there must be a hidden meaning in all of it. Well, in a way, he is right! Just not about it being hidden; it is right here in plain sight if you have read the New Testament, too! The “law” was to show us how much we needed God and a Savior. No one has ever fulfilled every single law in Le...
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Leviticus 16 Scapegoat

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  Good morning, we are in Leviticus 16 for Today’s Daily Bible Challenge. Please join us as each of us becomes one of the statistical few who have actually read the whole Bible cover to cover! Just how many Bibles do you have around your house, and then ask yourself, have you read any of them? Yes, I am sure many of you have, but many who proclaim to be Christians have only heard what a preacher says, one verse here and another there. Or worse, they have only listened to complete strangers in person, or on the internet like me! I don’t want you to trust me, I want you to trust God, and what better way to learn to trust God than to actually start listening to Him fully, in context! About once a month, you will hear me saying we are here to stop listening to gossip about God and start listening to God about God!   I hope this journey through the Bible will be full of prayers asking God to reveal Himself to you through His words in the Bible. Here at the Daily Bible Challenge, w...
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Leviticus 15 Awkward party conversation.

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     Good Tuesday morning to all of you, I hope this letter finds you and yours well! I will be headed out soon to try to finish the contracting job I started yesterday, but I imagine it will stretch into tomorrow morning, too. I am just thankful to have the work after a long dry spell in the business! Most people in our area are cutting back these days, and projects have been on hold for a while now. You know that guy or girl who talks about uncomfortable topics at a party? Well, that is what Today’s Daily Bible Challenge is like! The Bible covers just about every topic under the sun, and if you are squeamish, maybe you should skim read this and move on. But The Daily Bible Challenge is a cover-to-cover challenge, and that in itself can be part of the challenge. Thus, the funny picture is just clickbait and is totally unrelated to today’s chapter! Well, unless you rely on the old saying, "The devil is in the details". I looked this chapter up on the Got Questions ...
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Leviticus 14 A pathway back into the village.

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  Good Monday morning, I hope your weekend and Sabbath were memorable and fun! We had a great weekend here on The Little Hundred Acre Wood! Today I have a job in town and will be heading out soon to pick up supplies and get this project finished by the deadline of Wednesday afternoon. I am so thankful for the blessing of this work and prayerfully, my old bones will allow me to hit the deadline without too many hiccups along the way!   Our Daily Bible Challenge for today is Leviticus 14 and is one more of those that are where this blog gets its name! Yes, it is more about leprosy and cleansing. It is written for the future, as these people are still in the desert wilderness living in tents, but the previous chapters go over the textiles of the tents and how to handle them. There is hope for healing in these words, and since we have spent more than thirty minutes over the last few days on just this topic, it must have been a big fear for the people. They didn’t know at that time...
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Leviticus 13

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   There isn’t a lot to write about in Today’s Daily Bible Challenge; it is dry material and a lot of it! It is just under ten minutes describing what the people needed to do about leprosy. What you can observe from this text is that they had little or no medical knowledge, but God provided some good rules of thumb to protect the people.    There was a term used several times in the second part of this chapter, which was “whether in the warp or in the woof.” Mentioned many times, but as I didn’t know what it meant, I looked it up. It is a weaver’s term, identifying the vertical or horizontal parts of the woven fabric. Such detail might of been because woven fabric was a very valuable possession and they may have tried to hang on to it even though it was contaminated. (Well, it is only contaminated in the woof part of the fabric…do I still have to burn it?) We seem to always be looking for loopholes in God’s words for us. It seems to be a timeless fault of mankind! Cl...
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Leviticus 12 and Food Distribution

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   Good Saturday morning to you and yours, I hope this letter finds you well! I am up early and writing this before I head out to work the monthly food distribution at a friend’s church. This is a ministry I truly love, just south of Glen Rose, Texas. It is about a thirty-minute drive, and then mostly the same group of people meet early, pray, and then start sorting food as soon as the Tarrant Area Foodbank truck arrives. Then, about an hour later, there is a long line of cars waiting to drive up and get supplemental food supplies for themselves and or their neighbors. I like the idea of giving food away to people in need, but I also love the pastor of this little country church! I receive a real sense of community from this monthly event! We do lots of ministry in our own church, too, but I am kind of an adopted member of this church, too! There are people of all ages among the workers and the recipients, too. Hardship comes at any age in your life, and having a church car...
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