Month: March 2023
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Welcome to the Judges, Part 2: Strong Side, Left Side (Judges 3)
April 15, 2021, Glynwood Baptist Church, Prattville AL, James Jackson, Lead Pastor
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Day 090: A Bee, A Mother, and a Woman of Torches (Judges 3-5)
“The villagers ceased in Israel: they ceased to be until I arose: I Deborah arose as a mother in Israel.” Judges 5:7 Deborah is one of my heroes in the Old Testament. Her name means “Bee,” and she’s absolutely a queen bee of the judges. Not only is she the only female judge and the…
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Welcome to the Judges, Part One: Down the Drain (Judges 1-2)
Here are the PowerPoint slides. I didn’t do a manuscript for this one. Sorry!
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Day 089: Making Sense of the Cycles in Judges (Judges 1-2)
18 Whenever the Lord raised up judges for them, the Lord was with the judge, and he saved them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge. For the Lord was moved to pity by their groaning because of those who afflicted and oppressed them. 19 But whenever the judge died,…
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Day 088: Who Are You Mentoring? (Joshua 22-24)
“Israel served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua and had known all the work that the Lord did for Israel.” Joshua 24:31 We come to the end of Joshua with some grim foreshadowing of what is to come. In chapter 24, Joshua lays out…
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Day 087: Two Joshuas (Joshua 19-21)
49 When they had finished distributing the several territories of the land as inheritances, the people of Israel gave an inheritance among them to Joshua the son of Nun. 50 By command of the Lord they gave him the city that he asked, Timnath-serah in the hill country of Ephraim. And he rebuilt the city…
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Day 086: Take Possession of What’s Promised (Joshua 16-18)
“So Joshua said to the people of Israel, “How long will you put off going in to take possession of the land, which the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you?” Joshua 18:3 If you’ve ever bought a new car, at what point is the car yours? Is it when you sign your…
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Day 085: Caleb’s Different Spirit (Joshua 12-15)
“I am still as strong today as I was in the day that Moses sent me; my strength now is as my strength was then, for war and for going and coming. So now give me this hill country of which the Lord spoke on that day, for you heard on that day how the…
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Day 084: Sovereign Through Our Mistakes (Joshua 9-11)
42 And Joshua captured all these kings and their land at one time, because the Lord God of Israel fought for Israel. Joshua 10:42 In chapter 9, Joshua gets conned by the Gibeonites, one of the neighboring people groups. They approach Joshua with worn-out clothes and dried-up wineskins, saying, “Make a treaty with us and…
