Category: Cover to Cover
Cover to Cover Reading: Judges 4:1-5:31 Focus: Judges 4:4-10, 17-24 We live in a world which is increasingly gender inclusive, on a path towards gender equality, where men and women are treated as equals, and so it should be. However, one of the dangers is that gender identity is being blurred more and more. In the move towards equality, gender definitions are being lost. What is a man? What is a woman? These definitions are slowly being by the gender equality movement. The reality is men must be men and women must be women (neither which promotes or denigrates one’s…
Cover to Cover Reading: Judges 1:1-3:31 Focus: Judges 2:1-19; 3:7-8, 12-14 Have you got a friend who is constantly repeating the same mistake over and over again? Every time it happens you hear the words, “I won’t do it again…” but it is only a short amount of time before it happens again. They suffer the same consequences and struggles each time, but they just don’t learn their lesson. You urge them, time and time over again, to look after themselves, to be careful that they don’t make the same mistake again…but they just don’t get it.
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.
