Pastor’s Blog (Page 23)

Things are changing very rapidly these days, aren’t they? We are realizing just how fragile our health, our economy, and our way of life really are. In uncertain times, what a treasure it is to have the Lord’s assurance, “I will be with you; I will not fail you or forsake you” (Joshua 1:5). Next week’s Scripture Memory Calendar verse also…

As he was surveying Jericho, Joshua saw a man standing opposite him with his sword drawn. “Are you for us or for our adversaries?” Joshua asked. “No,” he replied. “I have now come as Commander of the Lord’s Armies.” At this Joshua threw himself to the ground in reverence and asked, “What has my Lord to say to His…

The Coronavirus has us all on edge. Cruises are out. Sneezes and coughs are suspect. Even handshakes are being reconsidered. The thought occurred to me that we could stop this thing cold if we all avoided contact with everyone. If we completely isolated ourselves from one another and became total hermits–absolute recluses. But is that even living? God has made us…

I’ve chosen Rahab’s plea for her family members as this coming week’s portion from the Scripture Memory Calendar: Spare my father and my mother and my brothers and my sisters, with all who belong to them, and deliver our lives from death. -Joshua 2:13 If you use a little creative license, the words and syllables almost fit the tune, Not my…

Here is the coming week’s Scripture text from the Joshua Memory Calendar. 1 Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the LORD will do amazing things among you. -Joshua 3:5 It’s astounding when you think about it, but in some sense the God of the universe is waiting for us to make the next move. Really?!? Can that be?!? Yes, God tells us in many places that He…

By this you shall know that the LIVING GOD is among you… (Joshua 3:10) The waters of the flood-stage, overflowing-the-banks Jordan River fled away so the children of Israel could walk across a dry riverbed! That is how they would know the LIVING GOD was among them! In the 3400 years since, we have no record of this ever having happened again. Or of the Red Sea…