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Getting Ready for Battle: Remember, God is Powerful

<image courtesy of c.p.storm> For the LORD your God dried up the Jordan before you until you had crossed over. The LORD your God did to the Jordan what he had done to the Red Sea when he dried it up before us until we had crossed over. He did this so (more…)

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What Battles are You Facing?

<Image courtesy of army.mil> So much of life seems like it involves ‘battle.’  Think of how we describe much of what we endure in a single day: At the beginning of the day: we fight to get out of bed. During the day: we fight to maintain attention. Sometime in (more…)

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Question: Have I Counted the Cost?

<image courtesy of iboy_daniel> When it comes to taking those risky steps of faith, it can be difficult to know whether the ‘next step’ we see is our own desire or God’s leading for us.  Scripture gives us a bit of a lens through which we can view those situations and (more…)

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Question: Have I Waited?

<image courtesy of wallyg> We’ve been asking the question of how to know when to take steps of faith—and finding answers by asking other questions. The first questions was “Are First things First” Another question worth asking is the same as the title for this post: HAVE I WAITED? The (more…)

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Question: Have I Put First Things First?

<Image courtesy of aschaeffer> – We’re answering the question of “How do I know when to take that leap of faith?” with a series of other questions found in Joshua chapter 3. The Ark of the covenant is mentioned NINE TIMES in Joshua 3—and until now, it hasn’t been mentioned (more…)

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Questions and… Questions?

Image from Xurble – When Sarah and I first moved from Maine to Pennsylvania, we drove down in a U-Haul moving truck with our car towed behind.  To this day, I’m still surprised we made it here unscathed, especially when you consider that the biggest thing I’d driven before that (more…)

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Is That Enough?

As the story of Rahab and the spies in Joshua 2 continues, we get a deeper look at what faith is… perhaps gaining a perspective that isn’t celebrated as much as it should be. The story continues and indicates that faith is obedience.  In a world where belief and obedience (more…)

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What a Mess!

Image from iboy_daniel – I’ve been walking through the book of Joshua here on the ol’ blog and at this point we’re looking at chapter two as a bit of a case study on ‘faith’ (since Rahab, a central character in this passage is heralded later as an example of (more…)

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Strength & Courage (Part 2)

Part two in a discussion of how to find strength and courage in the midst of impossible situations–based on the lessons Joshua learned in the book of Scripture which bears his name.

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Strength & Courage (Part 2)

Part two in a discussion of how to find strength and courage in the midst of impossible situations–based on the lessons Joshua learned in the book of Scripture which bears his name.

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