Category: 66 in 52
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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 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 079: Does God Really Delight in the Destruction of His People? (Deuteronomy 28-29)
““All these curses shall come upon you and pursue you and overtake you till you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes that he commanded you. They shall be a sign and a wonder against you and your offspring forever. Because…
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Day 075: Adventures in Twisting God’s Word (Deuteronomy 14-16)
16 But if he says to you, ‘I will not go out from you,’ because he loves you and your household, since he is well-off with you, 17 then you shall take an awl, and put it through his ear into the door, and he shall be your slave forever. (Dt. 15:16-17) In the Eighties…
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Day 074: Understanding the Pharisees—a Little (Deuteronomy 11-13)
13 “If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you and gives you a sign or a wonder, 2 and the sign or wonder that he tells you comes to pass, and if he says, ‘Let us go after other gods,’ which you have not known, ‘and let us serve them,’ 3 you…
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Day 072: Taking God at His Word: The Mezuzah (Deuteronomy 5-7)
4 “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. 6 And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. 7 You shall teach them diligently to…
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Day 071: Adjusting to God’s Timeline ( Deuteronomy 3-4)
“I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess. You will not live long in it, but will be utterly destroyed.”Deuteronomy 4:26 ESV In Deuteronomy 4:26, God promises the children of Israel that they wouldn’t live…
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Day 069: Shelter, Savior, Sacrifice (Numbers 35)
“And the congregation shall rescue the manslayer from the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge to which he had fled, and he shall live in it until the death of the high priest who was anointed with the holy oil.”Numbers 35:25 ESV “For he…
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Day 068: Divine Desalination (Numbers 33-34)
“your south side shall be from the wilderness of Zin alongside Edom, and your southern border shall run from the end of the Salt Sea on the east.”Numbers 34:3 ESV On the Bible Recap podcast, Tara-Leigh talks about the deadness of the Dead Sea— how salty it is, how lifeless it is. I was there…
