Bible Readings for July 5th Joshua 7 | Psalms 137–138 | Jeremiah 1 | Matthew 15 I’ve never forgotten a short rhyme one of my Sunday School teachers taught us during my elementary years: “Achan stole the bacon.” It’s a silly phrase, but that light-hearted line is...
Bible Readings for July 4th Joshua 6 | Psalms 135–136 | Isaiah 66 | Matthew 14 At the end of Joshua 5, Joshua meets a mysterious man with a drawn sword. The fact that Joshua meets him near Jericho (Josh. 5:13) both suggests that Joshua had been spying on the city and...
Bible Readings for July 3rd Joshua 5 | Psalms 132, 133 & 134 | Isaiah 65 | Matthew 13 Before Yahweh takes Israel into the land of Canaan to receive the inheritance he had promised to them for generations through their forefather Abraham, he requires that all the...
Bible Readings for July 2nd Joshua 4 | Psalms 129, 130 & 131 | Isaiah 64 | Matthew 12 The story of how Israel crossed the Jordan in Joshua is more important than simply a record of the route they took to enter the Promised Land. Rather, this event marks a decisive...
Bible Readings for July 1st Joshua 3 | Psalms 126, 127 & 128 | Isaiah 63 | Matthew 11 Perhaps the chief difficulty of the Christian life is that we are not always given clear directions about where to go, and even when we know what we are supposed to do, it is not...
Bible Readings for June 30th Joshua 2 | Psalms 123, 124 & 125 | Isaiah 62 | Matthew 10 When Joshua sends two spies into the city of Jericho, the men lodge in the house of Rahab, who was a prostitute (Josh. 2:1), likely in an attempt to stay under the radar of...
