Week Twenty Four: Ruth; 1 Samuel 1–3
Do you have any traditions in your family that are unique or have a symbolic meaning? At Easter, we would decorate Easter eggs and then have an egg bashing contest to see whose egg was the strongest.Read More
Month: May 2022
The Israelites Pride Cycle
Week Twenty Three: Judges 3:12-31; Judges 4
In the Book of Mormon, we read about the pride cycle of the Nephites. The Lord would bless the Nephites for their righteousness; then, pride would set in. Adversities would come, so they would humble themselves and cry unto the Lord for help.Read More
Jericho and Rahab
Week Twenty Two: Joshua 1–8; 23–24
Rahab, the harlot of Jericho, maybe a woman you might want to judge for her mistakes, as in the earlier story of Tamar, the daughter-in-law of Judah. Some scholars think she might have been an innkeeper; other scholars think she probably was a prostitute, which is why she could so easily hide two men in her apartment without any trouble. Read More
Lessons learned in the Wilderness
Week Twenty One: Deuteronomy 6–8; 15; 18; 29–30; 34
Malcolm Gladwell made the 10,000-hour rule a big hit with the simple concept that mastery of a skill comes after someone practices it for 10,000 hours. The children of Israel were under the tutelage of the Lord for 40 years. Calculating their learning time, keeping it to only 12 hours per day, the children of Israel experienced 175,200 hours of learning in the wilderness. Hopefully, the children of Israel obtained mastery in following the law and following the Lord. Read More
Murmuring and the Quail
Week Twenty: Numbers 11–14; 20–24
When we are initially given blessings from the Lord, we are so often thankful. As time goes by, however, we sometimes begin to question whether it was really the blessing we wanted, and we desire even more. We forget how grateful we were with what we were originally given by the Lord... Read More
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