This sermon outlines the book of Joshua and then focuses on the seven inescapable concepts of servanthood, eschatology, dominion, antithesis or boundaries, the presence of God, covenantal inheritance, infallibility or authority.
This sermon explains eight Biblical leadership principles from the prologue to the book of Joshua.
This sermon explains the additional 6 Biblical leadership principles from the prologue to the book of Joshua.
This sermon gives both a philosophy of memorials and many practical ways of introducing memorials into your family.
This sermon continues to dig into the remarkable characteristics of the people of faith who crossed the Jordan. Faith in God leads to faithfulness. Joshua 4:10-14 gives us a great picture of what faithfulness looks like.
This sermon finishes off chapter 4 by showing how God opens new doors of ministry when He closes doors.
Why do pagans often view Christians as a threat? This sermon introduces the ideas that may be behind an answer.
Why is God raising up so many People Movements? What will it look like to have nations baptized? The circumcision of this nation may give us some clues.
Too many commentaries brush over these three verses, but the Passover described in these verses contributed hugely to the preparation of Israel for the conquest.
This sermon outlines ten spiritual prerequisites to personal and social victories.
This sermon contrast fake faith with genuine faith by examining the need, foundation, tests, and results of faith.
This sermon examines the importance of faith showing itself in obedience. Warns against pragmatic compromises in the area of politics.
Many people, including many Christians, are scandalized by God's judgment on Jericho. This sermon answers objections and shows how we must not be ashamed of any part of God's Word. Instead of being embarrassed by God's judgments, we should rejoice in them and in His salvation.
This sermon digs into the theology and practical outworking of blessings and curses. Certainly God pronounces both, but so do demons. It is critical to spiritual warfare to know this subject.
It may not seem fair for all of Israel to suffer because of the sin of one person, but Achan illustrates the reality that God deals with us covenantally.
This sermon looks at the embarrassing moments that Joshua and Israel faced and seeks to help us grow by God's grace through our own embarrassing moments.
This sermon focuses on some subsidiary problems that enabled the curse of Achan to fall on all Israel.
This sermon finishes off the discussion on the sin of Achan. We should confess our sins voluntarily before we're caught. We must not minimize our sins but treat them as seriously as God does.
This sermon shows the glorious changes that are brought about by revival.
This sermon deals with the process of planning a comeback after a failure.
This sermon deals with God's inspired guidance on implementing a plan.
This sermon gives a challenge to not be naive about the snares that Satan's kingdom lays for us, but it is also an encouragement that God knows how to make the enemy fall into their own traps.
This passage perfectly illustrates that our God of grace and patience is also a God of wrath and judgment.
This passage shows how grace and law are perfectly united in Jesus.
Where the previous sermon dealt with the grace needed for a Christian nation, and the next sermon we will look at the essential foundations of a Christian nation, this sermon will examine the various agents of a Christian nation.
This sermon looks at the essential elements of a Christian civilization
This sermon examines two strategies that Satan uses to make God's people ineffective
When people first become Christian they are often puzzled why their friends and family show resistance and even hostility to their new-found faith. This passage gives us some hints as to why.
In showing how the Israelites helped the newly-converted Gibeonites, this Scripture passage outlines some of the benefits and responsibilities of body life.
This sermon introduces us to yet another benefit of leaving the world and joining the church - the power of God in our midst.
God's enemies can't escape His judgments. Christians should never slacken in spritiual warfare against the world, the flesh, and the devil. Each of us has only two choices. Bear God's curse yourself forever in hell. Or believe in Jesus to bear God's curse for you and give you eternal life.
This sermon applies one of the more troubling passages in Joshua to God's character and judgments.
Joshua and the Israelites faced overwhelming odds from the Northern Canaanite coalition army with fearsome iron chariots. But they didn't look at the odds. They looked to the Lord and overcame the enemy in His strength. We are to do the same in our spiritual warfare with the world, the flesh, and the devil.
When Joshua was commissioned to do something, he completely obeyed the Lord. He left no unfinished business.
This passage highlights God's right to extend mercy or withhold mercy; to soften or to harden human hearts. It explains what happens when He withdraws His restraining hand. God is sovereign over all and men are responsible.
Joshua had a giant killing faith; a faith that believed God's promises; a faith that not only received what God promised but passed it on to the next generation.
Joshua 12 is not simply a random listing of cities and kings conquered by Joshua. It teaches about God's faithfulness to His promises and the importance of strategic planning.
What do you do when you feel overwhelmed with your to do list?
Caleb was a godly leader with a God-sized vision like William Carey. His outward achievements flowed from his inward character. That inward character helps to explain his phenomenal leadership.
Caleb was a godly leader with a God-sized vision like William Carey. His outward achievements flowed from his inward character. He pressed into the Lord and had a multi-generational vision. He was humble, patient, enduring, and tenacious. He didn't allow the faithlessness and hopelessness of others to discourage or disillusion him. Believing and hoping in God's promises, He confidently and courageously claimed His inheritance.
Caleb was a godly leader with a God-sized vision. His outward achievements flowed from his inward character. Joshua blessed Caleb. Our blessings can actually impart grace to others. Caleb's inheritance was tangible. Hebron was a place of honor. Keeping a God-sized vision requires consistent pressing into the Lord, and believing that God can change culture. We should not measure the giants by our strength, but by God's strength.
Our God is a promise-keeping God with a long-term perspective. He is sovereign over the lot. Borders are useful for tribes/states and clans/counties. Judah received the best portion because the Lord Jesus Christ would come from the tribe of Judah (Gen. 49:8-12).
Caleb's faith helped him not to be a slave of the past, and was based on God's word and promises. He trusted God to use the share that he got, to make the most pf what he had. Faith often has to reconquer what has been conquered before. Caleb trusted God by possessing all his possessions. He also groomed leaders to walk by faith, and his faith was passed on to his daughter Achsah.
Othniel is a model man of faith, a model soldier and suitor. He patiently waited for a helpmeet. He led and sacrificed for his bride. And his faith rejected the wisdom of the world. Achsah is a model woman of faith. She was a woman who took initiative. She knew how to express her ideas in a way that honored others. And she was future oriented.
Every word of Scripture is important and we must live by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God (Matt. 4:4). Cities and the countryside are both important and they need each other. Both can be good or bad places to live. Judah's land was divided into counties (mishpacha). Judah failed to drive the Philistines out of their coastal cities and the Jebusites out of Jerusalem. This was a failure of faith and action. We must not give Satan a foothold but drive the enemy out of our lives completely.
Joshua pointed the people to examples of the power of God in God-connected worship, and in the testimonies of God’s grace in the past and in other people’s lives. He breaks down the work into achievable steps and doesn’t allow the division of labor to discourage. He moves them from vision to action.