The Word to the World
All Christians are responsible before God to take themselves in hand, deny themselves, take up their cross, and follow Jesus. To do so requires that we daily bring our bodies, minds, and wills in subjection to the lordship of Jesus Christ. But it is fundamentally
The enduring nature of the Sabbath command (the fourth of the Ten Commandments) is a question that Christians frequently ask. Many think that, while God commanded Sabbath rest under the old covenant, this was abolished under the new covenant—that Christians, in other words, are bound
Numbers 20 is filled with grief. It is a chapter in which Moses experiences the death of two siblings, the discouragement of cruel rejection, and, because of his own sin, the death of a dream. It is a chapter of events he no doubt wished
As we approach Numbers 19, we remember that thousands of people had died in recent plagues resulting from the people’s disobedience. With all this death, there was potential of the tabernacle being defiled by those who had come into contact with dead bodies. This chapter