Archive for June 2024
Masterful thinking
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-u939u-165603e The great masters of the arts put their work behind their passion. They could not be sure that their work would create a legacy, immortalize them in our culture, or be tossed aside when the next great works appeared. Beethoven and Rembrandt could not have known that we would be admiring and studying them…
Read MoreS222P8 – Lessons from Joshua: a word passed on
Jos. 23:5-9 The LORD your God will push them back before you and drive them out of your sight. And you shall possess their land, just as the LORD your God promised you. Therefore, be very strong to keep and to do all that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, turning…
Read MoreS222P7 – Lessons from Joshua: cogs in a great machine
Jos. 13:1-2a, 6b-7 Now Joshua was old and advanced in years, and the LORD said to him, “You are old and advanced in years, and there remains yet very much land to possess. This is the land that yet remains…I myself will drive them out from before the people of Israel. Only allot the land…
Read MoreS222P6 – Lessons from Joshua: after our small steps
Jos. 10:9-11 So Joshua came upon them suddenly, having marched up all night from Gilgal. And the LORD threw them into a panic before Israel, who struck them with a great blow at Gibeon and chased them by the way of the ascent of Beth-horon and struck them as far as Azekah and Makkedah. And…
Read MoreS222P5 – Lessons from Joshua: the separation of defilement
Jos. 7:10-12 The LORD said to Joshua, “Get up! Why have you fallen on your face? Israel has sinned; they have transgressed my covenant that I commanded them; they have taken some of the devoted things; they have stolen and lied and put them among their own belongings. Therefore the people of Israel cannot stand…
Read MoreS222P4 – Lessons from Joshua: insight into possession
Jos. 6:2-5 And the LORD said to Joshua, “See, I have given Jericho into your hand, with its king and mighty men of valor. You shall march around the city, all the men of war going around the city once. Thus shall you do for six days. Seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of rams’…
Read MoreS222P3 – Lessons from Joshua: a common reason for his work
Jos. 4:20-24 And those twelve stones, which they took out of the Jordan, Joshua set up at Gilgal. And he said to the people of Israel, “When your children ask their fathers in times to come, ‘What do these stones mean?’ then you shall let your children know, Israel passed over this Jordan on dry…
Read MoreS222P2 – Lessons from Joshua: as He has done, so will He do
Jos. 3:14-16 So when the people set out from their tents to pass over the Jordan with the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people, and as soon as those bearing the ark had come as far as the Jordan, and the feet of the priests bearing the ark were dipped in…
Read MoreOnly a matter of time
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-sij8g-164c5fc Recently, I have been challenged to evaluate how I spend this time and this life while God still grants me minutes and hours here. There is a lot we could be doing, and then there is a lot we should be doing. Perhaps it is time yet again for us to seek God regarding…
Read MoreS222P1 – Lessons from Joshua: have strength and courage
Jos. 1:5-7 No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life. Just as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you or forsake you. Be strong and courageous, for you shall cause this people to inherit the land that I swore to…
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