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All that you have commanded us we will do, and wherever you send us we will go. Joshua 1:16 Are you familiar with Colonel Harry “Paddy” Flint? He led the U.S. Army’s 39th Infantry Regiment in World War 2 as they aggressively pressed back the axis powers in Sicily, Italy and later in Normandy after landing at Utah Beach. When Flint took over the 39th…

We will serve the LORD our God and we will obey his voice. Joshua 24:24 If you’ve been looking for a life-verse, you just found it! Or maybe you’re like me and you already have a boat-load of life-verses, but you still have room in your heart to treasure yet another great verse to challenge you and keep you going in the right direction. Joshua was near the end…

Today is the 19th anniversary of 9/11. Do tears still come easily as you re-watch and relive that day’s horrific events? Today is also the day I had assigned myself to reflect and write on the next Joshua calendar memory verse: Israel has sinned… transgressed… taken… stolen… and deceived.Therefore they cannot stand before their enemies.…

Get up! Why have you fallen on your face? Joshua 7:10 At first glance, those words sound rather harsh, don’t you think?  Is the Lord oblivious to the fact that Israel has been defeated in battle? That three dozens soldiers were just killed, and that Israel’s army has fled before the enemy? At a time like this, and especially in light of Achan’s…

I was intrigued and blessed by Jerry DeRenzo’s message this past Sunday: Listening in on God. Jerry took us to four recorded conversations between the Father and the Son, or between the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. I asked his permission to restate them here for our review. The first conversation had to do with the Creation of Mankind in Genesis 1:26. The second…

Do not turn from it to the right or to the left…Joshua 1:7; 23:6 We find this figure of speech 16 times in the Old Testament. Twice in Joshua. It means, Stay on the path! Keep going straight! Don’t deviate to the right or to the left. And it’s often in reference to specific instructions the Lord has given: Don’t turn aside from the…