So Joshua said to the people of Israel, “How long will you put off going in to take possession of the land, which the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you?” Joshua 18:3 Years ago, while working in the ER, our hospital implemented a new electronic medical record, abandoning the old days of…
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You are a numerous people and have great power. You shall not have one allotment only, but the hill country shall be yours, for though it is a forest, you shall clear it and possess it to its farthest borders. For you shall drive out the Canaanites, though they have chariots of iron, and though…
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So now give me this hill country of which the LORD spoke on that day, for you heard on that day how the Anakim were there, with great fortified cities. It may be that the LORD will be with me, and I shall drive them out just as the LORD said. Joshua 14:12 A certain…
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And now, behold, the LORD has kept me alive . . . And now, behold, I am this day eighty-five years old. I am still as strong today as I was in the day that Moses sent me; my strength now is as my strength was then, for war and for going and coming. Joshua…
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To the tribe of Levi alone Moses gave no inheritance. The offerings by fire to the LORD God of Israel are their inheritance, as he said to him. Joshua 13:14 It’s a bit of a long, uninteresting story, but we’ve had more than half of our household possessions tucked away in storage for the last…
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So Joshua struck the whole land, the hill country and the Negeb and the lowland and the slopes, and all their kings. He left none remaining, but devoted to destruction all that breathed, just as the LORD God of Israel commanded. Joshua 10:40 In the process of adding on to our old cottage, we decided…
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The sun stopped in the midst of heaven and did not hurry to set for about a whole day. Joshua 10:13 When I was in elementary school, I set out one recess to replicate Tarzan’s swinging from vine to vine. I tied my jump rope to the monkey bars overhead, climbed up one side and…
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At the end of three days after they had made a covenant with them, they heard that they were their neighbors and that they lived among them. Joshua 9:16 When it comes to recovery, I’ve got it pretty good. I’ve got a best friend with whom I do a jail Bible study, and I’m married…
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They said to him, “From a very distant country your servants have come, because of the name of the LORD your God. For we have heard a report of him, and all that he did in Egypt . . .” Joshua 9:9 In the disaster or my opioid addiction, I went to a Christian treatment…
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And they returned to Joshua and said to him, “Do not have all the people go up, but let about two or three thousand men go up and attack Ai. Do not make the whole people toil up there, for they are few.” Joshua 7:3 Back in college, I was sitting in my dorm room…
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