Month: October 2017

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9/29 Reading (Judges 7-9; 1 Corinthians 6)

Judges 7: The battle with the Midianites. Initially Gideon approaches the battle with an extremely large army. God says that Gideon needs to reduce the size of the army because God wants the people to realize that they are successful in battle because he intervened, not because they had the numbers. So the army is shrunk down to 300 people. With this number God explains how Gideon will lead them into battle and destroy the Midianites. And they were successful at the end.

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9/28 Reading (Judges 4-6; 1 Corinthians 5)

Judges 4: Again, the people did bad things once Ehud died. So, in this chapter we get the story of Deborah, Barak, and Jael, who together destroy Sisera and his army. This chapter is the prose version of this story.

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9/27 Reading (Judges 1-3; 1 Corinthians 4)

Judges 1: We see a general overview of the conquests of the tribe of Judah against the people who originally lived in the area. There are several instances where the Israelites didn’t drive out the Canaanites, directly violating God’s directive from earlier books in the Bible.

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9/26 Reading (Joshua 22-24; 1 Corinthians 3)

Joshua 22: The Eastern tribes go home here. They are accused of building an altar to a different God and confronted by the army. It pretty much ends up being a misunderstanding.

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9/25 Reading (Joshua 19-21; 1 Corinthians 1 & 2)

Joshua 19: We learn about the land given to Simeon, Zebulun, Issachar, Asher, Naphtali, and finally Dan. This chapter ends by sharing that the people gave Joshua the city Timnath-serah in the highlands of Ephraim as was commanded by God.

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A quarter of the way in reflection

I wanted to take a moment to just reflect on the experience up to this point. We are in the 14th week of our year long study and I’ve experienced a range of emotions throughout this time. I thought it would be helpful for me to just write about how I’ve felt throughout this process. Kind of like a little reset and kick in the butt moment. Overall I’ve really enjoyed the experience and I’ve learned a lot. I’ve learned that this is really challenging. I knew it would be tough, but I didn’t realize that it would be this tough. I’ve learned the Bible has a lot more in it than I expected. The Bible addresses some interesting topics. I’ve also learned some things about myself that I never anticipated.

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