POSTS TAGGED : Faith

“Taking Hold of the Inheritance” (Joshua 15-19)

This sermon was extremely challenging for me to write. Granted, I haven’t written that many sermons at this point in my life…but trying to preach five chapters is difficult! And add to that the fact that Joshua 15-19 is mostly lists of the allotments the tribes of Israel received in the Promised Land, and it’s tough to know where to start! But I definitely trust that 2 Timothy 3:16-17 is true and I think it’s important to preach the sections of the Bible that we tend to “skim” or even skip in our own Scripture reading. Expository preaching sometimes forces us to meditate on passages of Scripture that we wouldn’t otherwise (and that’s a good thing!).

There are lots of other things I wanted to include in this sermon, but due to some time constraints in our service this past Sunday I had to edit out some material I had written. But hopefully it’s an encouraging word from a part of the Bible that may not seem to apply to us at first glance.

“Foolishness and Victory” (Joshua 6)

Here’s the sermon on Joshua 6 that I preached this last Sunday (February 23, 2014). It’s part of a sermon series on the book of Joshua that our church is going through. The story of the battle of Jericho is very familiar to most Christians. My goal in this sermon was to get beyond the typical “Israel was victorious by faith, and you can be, too!” angle. I wanted to put the emphasis on Christ’s work on our behalf…and then draw out how we can experience—by faith—the spiritual victory that He has already secured for us.