Looking for wisdom in your family relationships?

The book of Deuteronomy is rich with guidance, focusing on two realities: our tendency to forget, and our call to remember.

Deuteronomy was given to the Hebrew people as a teaching tool—to give them a kind of ordering of their own knowledge and understanding of their place in the world before each other and before their God, so that they can teach it to the next generation.

There is a very familial generational dynamic that's at work in the book of Deuteronomy. Godly instruction to enable us to flourish, enjoy and leave a legacy of faith to those going after us.

Deuteronomy 5:32-33 gives us this call to action from the Lord:
“So be careful to do what the LORD your God has commanded you; do not turn aside to the right or to the left. Walk in obedience to all that the Lord your God has commanded you, so that you may live and prosper and prolong your days in the land that you will possess.” >>Watch on YouTube⁠

Dr. Mark Gignilliat is professor of divinity at Beeson Divinity School, where he teaches courses in Old Testament and Hebrew. Mark also serves as theologian in residence at St. Peter's Anglican Church in Birmingham. Dr. Gignilliat is married to Naomi, and they have four children.