Elon and Twanna
ELON And after Ibzan, there was Elon – After him, Elon the Zebulunite led Israel ten years. Then Elon died and was buried in Aijalon in the land of Zebulun. Judges 12:11-12 And that...
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Ibzan and the SAF writers
IBZAN After him, Ibzan of Bethlehem led Israel. He had thirty sons and thirty daughters. He gave his daughters away in marriage to those outside his clan, and for his sons he brought in...
Tola and Campbell and Ruth
TOLA After the time of Abimelek, a man of Issachar named Tola son of Puah, the son of Dodo, rose to save Israel. He lived in Shamir, in the hill country of Ephraim. He...
Gideon and Eileen
GIDEON So Gideon has been convinced by God that he is the one to deliver the Israelites from their current oppression. He is to lead them to victory against the Midianites. He gathers a...
A life well lived
So there we are. We’ve arrived at the last chapter of the Book of Joshua. It’s been a great journey – full of challenges and mistakes, confidence (or lack of it) and victory, promises...
Be very careful…..
‘Don’t do what Auntie Helen has just done. It’s too dangerous.’ Yesterday, we walked out along the pier at South Shields and when we arrived at the end, there were some convenient metal footholds...
Try, try, try again…….
‘If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again.’ A familiar saying to encourage us all to have another go when we’ve tried and made a mess of something. Sometimes this is harder...
And the walls come tumblin’ down
To set the scene for today’s blog, have a listen to this – Mahalia Jackson singing ‘Joshua fit the battle of Jericho’ in 1957. This song is a well-known African-American spiritual believed to have...
Great is the Lord in whom we have the victory…..
Joshua Chapter 2 contains a lovely, heart-warming story. About a prostitute. She is not the victim but the hero. No one rides in like a knight in shining armour and saves her from her...
