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WHO WROTE JOSHUA?
The book's primary figure gives it its title. Joshua means “Yahweh ... 1 an appropriate name for the man who led Israel, under God's command, to victorious conquest of the Promised Land. Scholars believe ... of Israel's journey to the Promised Land. Here we see God fulfil His promise to give the land of Canaan to Jacob's descendants. ...
One of the most misunderstood literary types in the Bible is the law, which includes ... and Numbers.
The law was the written expression of God’s expectation for His chosen people, Israel. It contained their civil, ... and provided instructions on how to worship the one true God in their covenant relationship with Him.
The law also gave the ...
There are several places in the Bible where spiritual gifts are written about: Romans 12:3–8, 1 ... In this article I focus mainly on Peter’s words.
“God has given each of you a gift from his great variety of spiritual gifts. Use ... you have the gift of speaking? Then speak as though God himself were speaking through you. Do you have the gift of helping others? ...
WHO WROTE JUDGES?
The text of Judges gives no indication as to who wrote the book, but Jewish ... was the last of the judges, one of the special leaders whom God raised up during this time period to rescue His people. The judges did not ... clear: the people rebelled through idolatry and disbelief, God brought judgment through foreign oppression, God raised up a deliverer—or ...
Puritan minister Richard Baxter warned about the emotional toll of carrying unnecessary guilt: “That sorrow, even for sin, ... sin away. First John tells us that when we confess our sin, God “is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from ...
Puritan minister Richard Baxter warned about the emotional toll of carrying unnecessary guilt: “That sorrow, even for sin, ... sin away. First John tells us that when we confess our sin, God “is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from ...
"I'm totally confused. How in the world do I find the will of God for my life?" I cannot number how many times through the years I have heard ... question.
I could probably list at least 10 ways that God leads His children today, but I will limit myself to the four that I think ...
So we are Christ’s ambassadors; God is making his appeal through us. We speak for Christ when we plead, “Come back to God!” For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through ... from 1986 to 1988 until he received a call from Zygmunt to move back to Poland and launch a seminary—underground! Communism still ruled ...
Read Hebrews 6:19
The word picture of an anchor is used often in ancient literature, but ... the holiest place on earth, the place we might call the “God-room.” In this God-room, the light (it was actually called the shekinah) of God resided. ...
... windows, and sagging floors. If you live in a part of the world with soft soil or an extreme climate, you know about foundation ... over “theoretical theology” and emphasize “knowing God” rather than merely “knowing about Him.” But can we really have ...
“The world does not revolve around you!” “You are not the centre of the ... things in the right way. It sounds selfish, but it isn’t. God already knows what you need and desire, but He invites us to ask anyway. ... also listening; it’s worship; it’s moulding my will into God’s will—recognizing that I’m not the centre of the universe. However, ...
WHO WROTE MALACHI?
The final book of the Old Testament, Malachi received its name from its author ... to Malachi's role as a prophet of the Lord, delivering God's message to God's people. 1 Malachi offered no other identifying information about ...
May your ways be known throughout the earth, your saving power among people everywhere. May the nations praise you, O God. Yes, may all the nations praise you. (Psalm 67:2–3)
Poverty and ... up in a broken family. During this darkness, however, God shined the light of His grace and power in her life when she was 12 years ...
... Jewish tradition and other biblical authors name Moses, the prophet and deliverer of Israel, as the author of the entire ... and his close communion with Yahweh—the Hebrew name for God—support this premise. Jesus Himself confirmed Moses' authorship (John ... River (in modern-day Iraq) over to what is now Syria, events move south into Canaan (modern-day Israel) and Egypt.
Genesis covers the ...
WHO WROTE LAMENTATIONS?
While the author of Lamentations remains nameless within the book, strong evidence ...
Like the book of Job, Lamentations pictures a man of God puzzling over the results of evil and suffering in the world. However, ... of this once great city experienced the judgment of the holy God, and the results were devastating. But at the heart of this book, at the ...
Terms in the Bible are specialized words of particular significance. In Coming to ...
The term “creation” refers to the act by which God created everything. Miraculous creation by God is the major presupposition of the Bible and the foundational truth for all ...
... form. They helped explain truth to those eager to follow God (Luke 10:36–37) and to keep truth hidden from those opposed to God’s plans (Mark 4:10–12).
The word “parable” comes from Greek and Hebrew words used to describe a ...
... crude place where animals sleep, Mary gave birth and felt the soft, human skin of her first-born. The humanity of this scene ... wonder, and with the shepherds’ amazement about the Son of God’s quiet arrival in such an inhospitable world. All of those thoughts are ...
... to our Insight for Living Ministries United Kingdom booth at the 2019 Word Alive Christian conference in North Wales, Judith made a beeline ... do that only she could do, then perhaps there’s something God has for me to do as well. I mulled it over as to what it might be, but no ...
WHO WROTE NUMBERS?
As it does for the rest of the Pentateuch, universal Jewish and Christian tradition attributes ... tribes when they camped. But through it all, we cannot doubt God's unfailing direction over the nation.
As a history of the nation not ...
