After 4 1/2 years of more or less consistent blogging, I feel I have earned a bit of wisdom I would like to share. This is not only what I would tell any beginner, but also what I use to preach to myself (no pun intended); sometimes the advice we most need to hear is... Continue Reading →
Refocusing within the flames
Hi Friends! After a long break, Joshua chapters 23 & 24 are finally up. Over the past several months I have come to realize that my focus has truly been split between wanting what the world has to offer, and wanting what God has to offer. Joshua 24 speaks beautifully to that point. First he... Continue Reading →
Joshua 24
Joshua 24 “Choose today whom you will serve” As his last recorded discourse, Joshua recounts once more all that God has done for their people, starting all the way back with Abraham and ending with the present day situation. After many years of conflict, slavery, war, exile, and wandering - during which God did not... Continue Reading →
Joshua 23
Joshua 23 “If you disobey the Lord will no longer fight for you” In Joshua’s last warnings to Israel, he repeats two concepts several times. The first, to remember what the Lord has done for them, in fighting for them to conquer many peoples and give them the land He promised them. None of the... Continue Reading →