Daily Thoughts From God's Word

Feb 9

February 9, 2024 - Numbers 13-16

We have arrived at the story of the spies sent into Canaan to scope out the situation. The ten spies “brought to the people of Israel a...

George Martin

Feb 8

February 8, 2024 - Numbers 9-12

Well, the people are about to head out from Sinai and farther into the wilderness. But, first, they will observe the Passover and...

George Martin

Feb 7

February 7, 2024 - Numbers 5-8

The people of Israel are making their way through the wilderness (Their own fault, by the way, because of their refusal to trust God.)...

George Martin

Feb 7

February 6, 2024 - Numbers 1-4

40 years of wilderness wandering crunched down into 36 chapters. That’s the book of Numbers. So much left out, and it will be...

George Martin

Feb 5

February 5, 2024 - Leviticus 26-27

Over and over again, in his Word, God says to Israel and to us, “You shall not make idols for yourselves or erect an image or pillar, and...

George Martin

Feb 4

February 4, 2024 - Leviticus 22-25

More instructions regarding offerings and their holiness, festivals, the Sabbath, Passover, and items in the tabernacle. About the...

George Martin

Feb 3

February 3, 2024 - Leviticus 17-21

Some selected (because there are so many) from today’s reading. “They shall no more sacrifice their sacrifices to goat demons” (17:7). ...

George Martin

Feb 2

February 2, 2024 - Leviticus 16

In the preceding chapters of Leviticus: instructions about food, childbirth, leprosy, disease found in houses, and bodily hygiene. ...

George Martin

Feb 1

February 1, 2024 - Leviticus 13-15

Years ago, Francis Schaeffer wrote How Should We Then Live? The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture. How are we to live? A...

George Martin

Jan 31

January 31, 2024 - Leviticus 8-12

Recently, at Baxter, we ordained two pastors and two deacons to their respective ministries. This is not a new idea, and it certainly is...

George Martin

Jan 30

January 30, 2024 - Leviticus 5-7

Old Testament scholars distinguish between “apodictic” law (absolutes, always in effect) and “casuistic” law (case law). The Ten...

George Martin

Jan 29

January 29, 2024 - Leviticus 1-4

Leviticus begins, “The Lord called Moses and spoke to him from the tent of meeting” (1:1). In pulling up Leviticus on my computer screen...

George Martin

Jan 28

January 28, 2024 - Exodus 40

Instructions have been given. Materials have been collected. Offerings have been made. Workers have been enlisted. And, now, the Lord...

George Martin

Jan 27

January 27, 2024 - Exodus 36-39

The work on the tabernacle commences. I have probably noted this matter previously; it is such an obvious takeaway from these chapters: ...

George Martin

Jan 26

January 26, 2024 - Exodus 32-35

The golden calf episode is, at the same time one of the most discouraging (the idolatry!) and encouraging (that God was so merciful!) in...