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 God established these rhythms on purpose, for all of his people. In the message on Shavuot, Brian walked through the idea that God gave seven family traditions, each carrying three purposes: to help us remember what he has done, to recalibrate when we have drifted, and to rehearse events that are still ahead. The rehearsal piece matters because when those events unfold, we can recognize them rather than lose our bearings.
Pecky Day carries the same instinct into the life of the church itself. Brian and Lissa started the tradition in their own home long before Tribe existed, keeping a physical board where they pin specific moments when God came through. When Tribe launched, they folded the congregation into it. The anchor text is Habakkuk 3:1-2, where the prophet prays that God would help his people again as he did in years gone by. Brian's point is direct: you cannot ask God to do it again if you have not kept a record of the first time. As he puts it, "Remembering yesterday's victories arms us with strength for today's battles." He also draws from Joshua 4, where God tells Israel to pull twelve stones from the Jordan so that future generations can point to them and tell the story.
Both messages land in the same place. Family traditions, whether ancient feasts or a homegrown December ritual, are not sentiment. They are a practice of memory that builds real faith. The Pecky Day story itself, where a tropical bird on a Tulsa balcony led to exactly $900 arriving at exactly the right moment, is the kind of specific, keepable record these traditions are meant to produce.
Taught from Habakkuk 3:1-2 · Joshua 4:1-7 · Habakkuk 3:17-19 · Deuteronomy 16:9-12
“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.