Month: November 2024

You shall march around the city, all the men of war going around the city once. Thus shall you do for six days. . . On the seventh day you shall march around the city seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets. Joshua 6:3-4 Looking back over the years, I’ve blogged about this…
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When Joshua was by Jericho, he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man was standing before him with his drawn sword in his hand. And Joshua went to him and said to him, “Are you for us, or for our adversaries?” And he said, “No; but I am the commander of the…
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And there was no longer manna for the people of Israel, but they ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year. Joshua 5:12 I am a man of large appetites. I want anything that makes me feel good, and I want a lot of it. I don’t simply eat one donut. I’m…
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At that time the LORD said to Joshua, “Make flint knives and circumcise the sons of Israel a second time.” Joshua 5:2 In urgent care, it’s not uncommon for a man to come to clinic with some small lump, pain, or spot on his genitalia. If that lump, pain, or spot were anywhere else, he’d…
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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 ground.” Joshua 4:21-22 Like anyone who loves their children, I have a life in my mind that I…
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And when the soles of the feet of the priests bearing the ark of the LORD, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan shall be cut off from flowing, and the waters coming down from above shall stand in one heap. Joshua 3:13…
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And in the same way was not also Rahab the prostitute justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out by another way? For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead. James 2:25-26 In my first year of medical school, I took…
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And as soon as we heard it, our hearts melted, and there was no spirit left in any man because of you, for the LORD your God, he is God in the heavens above and on the earth beneath. Joshua 2:11 I don’t have any desire to run a gym, but today’s passage got me…
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Then the two men returned. They came down from the hills and passed over and came to Joshua the son of Nun, and they told him all that had happened to them. Joshua 2:23 When I was a kid, my friends and I had just bought some pea shooters at the dime store downtown, when…
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And they went and came into the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab and lodged there. Joshua 2:1 In medical school, I thought I wanted to be a family practice physician but in residency, I realized that I didn’t enjoy managing chronic disease or practicing preventative medicine. If a patient had diabetes but…
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