by David Keesling | Sep 13, 2009 | Uncategorized
Deuteronomy 2:5: “Do not provoke them to war, for I will not give you any of their land, not even enough to put your foot on” (NIV). Observation: Israel had begun their desert wanderings under God’s specific direction. In Deuteronomy 2:4, He had said they were about...
by David Keesling | Sep 12, 2009 | Uncategorized
Deuteronomy 1:31: “There you saw how the LORD your God carried you, as a father carries his son” (NIV). Observation: At the edge of the Promised Land, Moses began summarizing the reasons for the Israelites’ long desert exile—until all in the previous generation...
by David Keesling | Sep 11, 2009 | Uncategorized
Deuteronomy 1:3: “Moses proclaimed to the Israelites all that the LORD had commanded concerning them” (NIV). Observation: Forty years of wandering in the desert had ended, and Moses was proclaiming God’s precepts to the Israelites. Key enemies had been defeated, and...
by David Keesling | Sep 10, 2009 | Uncategorized
1 Corinthians 13:3: “If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing” (NIV). Observation: Paul opened the chapter by saying, “Now I will show you the most excellent way,” and in the first three verses he...
by David Keesling | Sep 9, 2009 | Uncategorized
Mark 4:9: “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.” Observation: Jesus was teaching at the seashore. As the crowd grew, He moved His venue from the shore into a boat put out a short distance into the water. Presumably from there, both visibility and acoustics would be...
