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If you’re following the Joshua Scripture memory calendar, you may be puzzled and shaking your head about some of the verses I chose: Take only a few… Take the whole army… (7:3; 8:1)…but not by your sword or bow. (24:12)…you may carry off their plunder and livestock for yourselves. (8:2)  Yes, I see why you might think they are rather random…

I gave you a land on which you had not labored. . . cities which you had not built. . . vineyards and olive groves which you did not plant. . . Joshua 24:13 We humans are infected by two serious plagues. One is the plague of blessings forgotten, and the other is the plague of the half-empty glass. The plague of blessings forgotten amounts to losing…

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…