Christ Church Studies

Power tends to corrupt, and in Deuteronomy, we find multiple laws that aim to limit power and hold accountable those who wield it. For the law reveals how God desires to protect his people from the corrupted hearts of their neighbors.

Power tends to corrupt, and in Deuteronomy, we find multiple laws that aim to limit power and hold accountable those who wield it. For the law reveals how God desires to protect his people from the corrupted hearts of their neighbors.

Strange as it is that God commands his people to love, stranger still that he commands them to rejoice. In this session, we'll discuss the religious festivals that God calls Israel to celebrate in Deuteronomy, and what we can learn today from their traditions of rejoicing.

Strange as it is that God commands his people to love, stranger still that he commands them to rejoice. In this session, we’ll discuss the religious festivals that God calls Israel to celebrate in Deuteronomy, and what we can learn today from their traditions of rejoicing.

Practicing the Sabbath is intimately connected to caring for those in need. That is why Moses tells the Israelites that, as long as they follow God's laws, there will be no poor among them. In this session, we explore one of the most striking and commonly neglected commands in Deuteronomy.

Practicing the Sabbath is intimately connected to caring for those in need. That is why Moses tells the Israelites that, as long as they follow God’s laws, there will be no poor among them. In this session, we explore one of the most striking and commonly neglected commands in Deuteronomy.

Idolatry is among the greatest dangers God's people face in every generation, for what we worship determines how we live. In this session, we discuss how Moses's warnings against idolatry apply to us today.

Idolatry is among the greatest dangers God’s people face in every generation, for what we worship determines how we live. In this session, we discuss how Moses’s warnings against idolatry apply to us today.

Proverbs tells us “the fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom,” and Moses tells us the same in Deuteronomy, instructing us not only to fear the LORD but also to walk in his ways. In this session, we discuss how the people of God are to imitate God by doing what he does.

Proverbs tells us "the fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom," and Moses tells us the same in Deuteronomy, instructing us not only to fear the LORD but also to walk in his ways. In this session, we discuss how the people of God are to imitate God by doing what he does.