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 question about fire. Brian Hunter spent the final week of the church's Leviticus series in Leviticus 6:8-13, where God repeats the same instruction to Aaron and his sons at least three or four times in just a few verses: the fire on the altar shall not go out. That repetition was the entry point. When God keeps saying the same thing in a short space, he is pressing for attention.
The first thing Brian established is where the fire comes from in the first place. Leviticus 9:23-24 shows fire blazing out from God's presence and consuming the first burnt offering at the moment the whole sacrificial system began. The ignition, the moment of conversion, the retreat or camp experience where something broke open, that comes from God. But chapter 6 is addressed to the priests, not to God. Because 1 Peter 2:9 identifies believers as a royal priesthood, the responsibility for keeping that fire burning lands with each person. Brian was direct about it: as he says, "God will send the fire, but it is your job to maintain the fire." It is not the pastor's job, not a podcast's job, not a spouse's job.
The passage also instructs the priest to remove the ashes every morning before adding fresh wood. Brian drew out two sides of that. Taking out yesterday's ashes means letting go of yesterday's failures through confession, since 1 John 1:9 says God is faithful and just to forgive. But it also means not trying to build today's fire on what is already spent. As Brian put it, "yesterday's ashes have no capacity to fuel today's fire." The fresh wood added each morning is the daily, deliberate act of tending the relationship, whether that looks like an elaborate quiet time or simply whispering thanks on the way to a hard appointment. What that looks like shifts with the season, but the responsibility does not shift away.
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.