What does Tribe teach about family traditions?
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 family traditions starts with the conviction that the rhythms God established in scripture were never meant to be narrowly ethnic or cultural. Brian Hunter has taught that the seven feasts God gave are family traditions for all of his kids, and that each one carries three purposes: to help us remember what God has done, to recalibrate when we have drifted, and to rehearse events that haven't happened yet. The point of rehearsal, Brian says, is so that when those events unfold, we recognize them rather than losing our bearings.
Tribe has also made a family tradition its own in a very local way. Pecky Day, which started in the Hunter household, is an annual practice of looking back at specific moments when God came through and letting that memory fuel faith going forward. Brian anchored this in Habakkuk 3:1-2, where the prophet prays out of deep need by recalling what God has done before. The logic is direct: you cannot ask God to do it again if you have not kept a record of the first time. Brian says, "Remembering yesterday's victories arms us with strength for today's battles."
What runs through both of these teachings is that traditions are not sentimental exercises. They are practical tools for keeping your bearings. Whether it is a biblical feast that points to events still ahead or a family board covered in specific stories of provision, the practice trains the people keeping it to see God's hand clearly when circumstances might otherwise obscure it.
Taught from Habakkuk 3:1-2 · Deuteronomy 16:9-12 · Joshua 4:1-7 · Habakkuk 3:17-19
“God's like, I'm only ever going to call you by the name that I have for you.”
From Following the Holy Spirit
The passage taught · Deuteronomy 16:9-12
9 You shall count for yourselves seven weeks. From the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain you shall begin to count seven weeks.
10 You shall keep the feast of weeks to Yahweh your God with a tribute of a freewill offering of your hand, which you shall give, according as Yahweh your God blesses you.
11 You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God: you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite who is within your gates, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, who are among you, in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there.
12 You shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt. You shall observe and do these statutes.
World English Bible
Messages that go deeper
- June 10, 2024 Following the Holy Spirit Brian Hunter closes a six-week series on walking in the Spirit, tracing the feast of Shavuot, the book of Ruth, and what it really means to follow where the Holy Spirit leads.
- December 5, 2022 Pecky Day at Tribe Brian Hunter shares how a tropical bird, a reward sign, and $900 taught his family to remember God's provision, and why Tribe celebrates that story every year.