This study is about how we will take the Promised Land, as the church, and as individuals. During this week’s study, I want to focus on how we can individually begin to practically cease from our wanderings, mostly in circles in the wilderness, and begin to walk in our purpose, our Promised Land from God.

It is no accident that this year’s Feast of Dedication, or Feast of Lights, celebrated by the Jewish people, began on what Christians celebrate as Christmas Day, and ends on New Year’s Day. On Christmas Day the first candle of this feast is...

I want to take a break from our ongoing study of the last days to share with you some of the things that I believe we can expect, and therefore need to prepare for, in this coming year.

First, this will be another year of very solid spiritual growth for the body of Christ. Though 2005 was a very hard year, it was a great year for the church. 2006 will be an even better year, though it, too, will be a very hard one for the world. However, many of the difficulties are the birth pangs of the coming...

As we continue our study of crossing over to possess the Promised Land this week, we want to examine in a little more depth the reason for the ban that caused Achan to get into trouble. This ban was that the people could not keep any of the gold, silver, bronze, or iron in Jericho, but it was to be given as a first fruits offering to the Lord. This ban was not a punishment on the people, but it was a preparation so they could be trusted with the unprecedented blessing that the Lord was about to give...

As we continue our study from the rest of Joshua 6, we learn how Israel crossed over to possess the Promised Land by capturing Jericho through faithfully following the Lord’s orders. However, before they blew the trumpets and shouted so that the walls would fall down, Joshua charged the people to keep their vow to Rahab the harlot and those who were in her house not to touch anything that was under the ban. What the Lord had placed under the ban was basically the wealth of the city, its gold, silver, bronze, and iron, all of which was...