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Invited to Know God: The Book of Deuteronomy is unavailable, but you can change that!

“Goodness like a fetter.” The hymn “Come Thou Fount” reminds us that God’s laws were created to draw us closer to him. But reading the law is intimidating. Deuteronomy is a long and ancient book full of speeches and laws for a wandering people on the cusp of entering a land filled with hostile nations. What could Deuteronomy have to say for modern readers who face vastly different issues? ...

for restoration.”4 He does not mean this narrowly, as if lovers of money will turn into money themselves. He means instead that if we worship things other than God, then we, like figures of stone and wood, will become blind and deaf to God. This, in turn, will lead to the corruption of the worshiper as God’s image-bearer. Idolatry, then, is simply beholding and adoring the wrong thing. Yet the true danger of idolatry is far subtler than we think. We know the struggle for Western Christians is not
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