Tag: Joshua
Cover to Cover Reading: Joshua 22:1-24:33 Focus: Joshua 24:14-27 As part of life, there are choices which need to be made. Some of no consequence, some with short-term consequence, some with continual life-changing consequences. These life choices should never be made without serious consideration as it is often hard to go back on them. Buying a house and locking yourself into a mortgage… proposing to the girl of your dreams (though people are failing to see the long-term consequences of this one)… migrating to another country… which God you will serve…
Cover to Cover Reading: Joshua 18:1-21:45 Focus: Joshua 18:43-45 It is almost an unwritten expectation these days that people will not keep their promises. The value of people’s words no longer carry much weight. With the ever-growing community of the Internet, it seems that everyone has a voice and an opinion. While an individual’s word now has an accessible medium for the freedom of expression, the value and weight of an individual’s word is no longer the same. The amount of slapstick mashups of popular media, such as the apology of Tiger Woods (just search “Tiger Woods apology remix” on…
Cover to Cover Reading: Joshua 14:1-17:18 Focus: Joshua 15:63; 16:10; 17:12-18 In the 2009 release of Sherlock Holmes, the plot devices are used in such a way that each little detail comes to play a significant part in the greater scheme of the story. Sharp intuition may see these pieces come together bit by bit, but for most people it only comes together in hindsight. Only when the bigger picture starts to unfold does the role of the smaller pieces start to fit.
Cover to Cover Reading: Joshua 10:16-13:33 Focus: Joshua 11:20 One of the greatest difficulties that people have wrestled with in regards to the character of God is his wrath. In hope to reconcile this God of wrath and judgment, many people have attempted to reject or re-interpret these actions recorded, particularly, in the book of Joshua. Some have attempted to separate the Old Testament God from the New Testament God, to separate the God of wrath and the God of love. Yet, then you begin to move into the realm of dualism, which is completely contradictory to the position of…
Cover to Cover Reading: Joshua 7:1-10:15 Focus: Joshua 7 Where one’s leadership is as good as their followers (see yesterday’s entry), the strength of a group is only as good as its weakest link, regardless of its leadership. This was certainly the case with Israel. Already, in Moses’ lifetime the disobedience of the Israelites cost them a high price. An entire generation returned to the desert to die because they feared the inhabitance of the Promised Land rather than trusting God to deliver them. Yet, they still don’t seem to get the point.
