Violence, whether on the battlefield in war, or urban gang violence, or individual criminal activity, or even family abuse, is hard to witness isn’t it my friends? Yesterday I left you with Joshua in the middle of some serious violence in our journey through the ‘Grand Narrative’ of the Bible. Today the two chapters we’re reading are Joshua 11 & 12 and they describe several years of unprecedented violence as Joshua and the Israelites conquer city after city as they reclaim the land of God’s Promise. It’s hard to read and it begs the question WHY? Is God a violent God or a peace seeking God? Is God a loving God or a hate filled God? Today, let’s try to understand the WHY of the violence as Joshua and the Israelites move into the land God had given to their ancestors’ centuries before.
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Pastor Doug Anderson “Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, with our eyes fixed on Jesus…” (Heb. 12:1,2)
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