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A CALL TO REMEMBER (6 OF 66)

by Tony Thomas

Scripture: Deuteronomy
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A Call to Remember (6 of 66)
Series: Route 66: A Road Trip Through the Bible
Tony Thomas
Deuteronomy


All of us need advice, especially during periods of transition. Jim Nantz called the SuperBowl for CBS Sports ten times. Over the history of the Super Bowl ten different men have anchored Super Bowls - and Nantz called each one and asked for their advice.

When you're calling the biggest game of the year ... and the biggest games of your career ... you need all the help you can get. Jim Nantz decided to call the Super Bowl the way he calls every other game: as if he were talking with his Dad.

All of us react differently to pressure, don't we? I read about a seventh grader who was asked to recite Patrick Henry's Address to a PTA meeting. Instead of saying, ''Give me liberty or give me death,'' he said, ''Give me puberty or give me death!''

We all need help with those transitional moments of life: when we get on a school bus for the first day of school, when we leave home for college, when we marry the girl/boy of our dreams, when we bring the first child home from the hospital and when we bury Mom or Dad.

We're in a series called Route 66, A Road Trip Thru the Bible. We're going through the Bible one book at a time, and this is week No. 6 and we're camping out in the fifth book of Law - Deuteronomy.

Deuteronomy is a book of counsel that was given to Israel prior to making the most important transition of their lives. It begins where Numbers left off. It begins with Israel's tents pitched on the plains of Moab. It begins with Moses restating God's laws in the last week of his life because he was not allowed to cross over into Jordan.

When the Septuagint was translated (Hebrew to Greek), they named this fifth book Deuteronomy. Some call it the Second Law. The Jews called it the ''Five-fifths of the Law.'' In other words, it was one of five parts of the Law.

The Pentateuch tells a story that is incomplete without all five books being read t ...

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