Monthly Archives: October 2010

Reflection God’s plan for Israel was that they would get rid of everyone living in Canaan, but by the end of Joshua’s life, there remained pockets of Canaanites living among the Jewish people.  Joshua warns Israel not to get involved with them – not to intermarry or to take on their cultures and religions.  In… Read more

Reflection In Joshua 24, even at the end of his life, Joshua declares, “As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord!”  Certainly Joshua is appealing to the parents standing before him.  He is pleading with them to live lives that follow the Lord and to teach their children who God is, what… Read more

Reflection In Joshua 23-24, Joshua gives his farewell words to the people of Israel.  He instructs them to follow and love the Lord and not to fellowship with the Canaanite natives still living among them.  In Joshua 24, he says, “Choose you this day whom you will serve.”  Joshua wants the people to make a… Read more

Reflection Joshua 7 demonstrates not only the consequences of sin on a person, his family, and a whole community, but it speaks to the importance of accountability.  God set up tribes not simply to be divisions of Israel but to be communities of accountability.  In order to narrow down Israel to find the offending sinner,… Read more