We’ll pick up next time, Lord-willing, in chapter 20. But we move on to chapter 18. Verses 1 through 10 find all Israel in Shiloh. They set up the tabernacle. And then Joshua has something to say to the last seven tribes who haven’t received their land yet. I’ll warn you. I...
1.It is urgent because it has to be made now.—“Choose youthis day.” All our decisions are instant; the processes leading up to decision may be very slow, but the decisions are all instant. A boat changes its course in an instant. It may have been a long time getting ready to m...
The first part of this chapter described the believer’s relationship to the church; now Paul deals with the believer’s relationship to the world. Certainly we are “in Christ” and a part of the body; but we are also in the world, where there is temptation and defilement. We cannot d...
In the story of creation recorded in the first chapter of Genesis, God hovers over the chaotic void prior to the moment of creation. The story goes that God carves out a tiny bastion of order amid all that swirling chaos. In that little soap bubble world, God places not only stars and ...
"This time, not only did they come out in numbers, the warmth, it was almost like they were making up for -- cause they all know the story -- they made up for it in like 100 fold," Bell said. "And I felt that outpouring of warmth. But this is the final chapter - a kind of...
Part Two : ANALYSIS CHAPTER EIGHT Defining Long Cycles : Epistemology and Methodolog y The following questions are of central importance in th e long wave debate: (1) Can long waves be identified in a variety of economic tim e series? (2) In which time periods, countries, and types of...
The first part of this chapter described the believer’s relationship to the church; now Paul deals with the believer’s relationship to the world. Certainly we are “in Christ” and a part of the body; but we are also in the world, where there is temptation and defilement. We cannot ...
23:1–14 The parable of the two sisters, Israel and Judah, is comparable to the parable of chapter 16. While that passage was about the seduction of Canaanite religion, this stressed the political alliances that excluded God from their national life. Oholah (Hb “my tent”) represented Isr...