One of our deepest impulses is a desire for control. One of the most stubborn realities is our lack of control. This creates a huge struggle for us. This passage shows us the reason for that struggle and God’s solution.
This story shows us it’s possible to miss God even when he’s standing right in front of us. Why is that? And what does God do about it? Join us as we find out.
What is wrong with the world? If we don’t get the diagnosis right, we’ll never get the solution right. This passage is one of the best places to come to a deeper understanding of the biggest problem facing our world: sin.
We all have faced deep disappointments, and long for a world made new, but often we try to get there by our own power, or by striving for power that isn’t ours. Numbers 16 is a story of real hope coming through an uncommon person in the midst of these real disappointments.
We all desire a deeper, fuller life. But one of the main reasons we don’t enter into it is because of the fear of losing control and comfort. Numbers 14 has a lot to show us about how we move out of fear and into a life of fullness
Our passage in numbers provides us with a sobering warning that there is some thing that would prevent us from entering the rest that God has promised, and that is unbelief. Let’s explore the danger of unbelief together as we continue our serious discipleship in the desert.
Discontent doesn’t mean unhappy over what you can’t have, but because of what you do have. It poisons everything else in our life. But this passage shows us a way out of discontent and into wholeness.
We long to change the world. The challenge is that what the world becomes is the result of what we are becoming. This passage in Numbers shows us how we can experience transformation for both.
Life feels like a journey on which we often feel lost. What do we need most when that happens? The opening chapters of the book of Numbers show us. Join us as we begin this new series!
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