There’s no way around the obvious truth about the kind of woman Rahab was. We read her story in Joshua 2-6. The massive assembly of Israelites is poised to cross the Jordan River, finally ready to go in and possess the land as God promised them forty years earlier. The last of the rebellious generation …
Tag: Faith
Faith That Speaks Up
I’m reading through Jeremiah this week, the third-longest book in the Bible with 52 chapters. Jeremiah was the son of a priest, so in my mind, that makes him a “preacher’s kid.” He prophesied in the days of King Josiah, King Jehoiakim, and King Zedekiah, right up until the time when Jerusalem fell to Babylon. …
When The Crisis Comes
My reading the past week has been the book of Isaiah, which is quite a long book. It contains prophecies against the nations that surround Israel, and threaten her well-being, all written in poetry and prose by the prophet Isaiah. There are also some chapters of historic details which tie back into the records of …
Under His Wings
I love how the created world reflects God’s character and His relationship with His creation. There is one picture of God that is repeated several times in Psalms that is a vivid illustration of His care and concern for us. It is the idea of finding refuge under His wings. Psalm 17:8 – Keep me …
God Sees
Despite the fact that Job likely lived in the time of the patriarchs, I don’t think it’s a coincidence that his story appears in the Bible right before the book of Psalms. Chuck Swindoll gives us some good reasons to believe that Job lived around the time of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (source here). Chronologically, …
