What does Tribe teach about daily devotions?
Drawn from the messages where it was actually addressed: the words said from the front, the passages taught, and where to hear the whole thing.
At Tribe, the teaching on daily devotions starts with a distinction Brian Hunter draws from Leviticus 6:8-13. God is the one who sends the fire in the first place. Leviticus 9:23-24 shows fire blazing out from God's presence to consume the very first burnt offering, and Brian points to that as the moment of ignition, the conversion, the camp experience, the retreat where something broke open. That part belongs to God. But the instructions in Leviticus 6 are given to the priests, not to God, and through 1 Peter 2:9 every believer is part of a royal priesthood. So the responsibility of maintaining that fire lands with each person. Brian is direct about it: it is not the pastor's job, not a spouse's job, not a podcast's job. As he puts it, "God will send the fire, but it is your job to maintain the fire."
The passage also describes what that maintenance actually looks like. Every morning the priest takes out the ashes and adds fresh wood. Brian draws two things from the ash-removal instruction. Taking out yesterday's ashes means letting go of failures and sin from the day before by confessing them, leaning on 1 John 1:9 and the faithfulness of God to forgive. But it also means not trying to build today's fire on what was burning yesterday. "Yesterday's ashes have no capacity to fuel today's fire." Fresh wood has to be added each morning, which is why the daily rhythm matters. The mercies of God are new every morning, and that newness is an invitation to return to the altar rather than coast on a previous experience.
Brian also notes that what "best" looks like in that daily practice will differ by season. For one person it is an elaborate quiet time; for someone in a harder stretch it might be whispering thanks on the way to a medical treatment. The point is not a formula but a consistent, personal tending of what God has already lit.
Taught from Leviticus 6:8-13 · Leviticus 9:23-24 · 1 Peter 2:9 · 1 John 1:9 · Romans 12:1-2
“God will send the fire, but it is your job to maintain the fire.”
From The Fire That Never Goes Out
The passage taught · 1 Peter 2:9
9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:
World English Bible
Messages that go deeper
- April 7, 2025 The Fire That Never Goes Out Leviticus 6 holds a surprising lesson: God starts the fire, but keeping it burning is our responsibility every single day.
- April 6, 2025 Keep the Fire Burning A Wyoming pastor walks through Leviticus 6 to explore whose job it is to keep your faith alive, and what happens when you try to build today's fire on yesterday's ashes.