Taking the Land | Lessons in Joshua | May 25, 2025 - Audio

On this memorial day weekend we have coincidentally come to Israel's military conquest of the Ancient Promised Land in Joshua (we didn't plan this overlap, it just happened!). We've mentioned time and time again how the conquest present in Joshua presents the crux of many peoples' objection to Christianity and we've finally made it there: why does the God of the Old Testament Scriptures seem so different from the Jesus Christ of the gospels? It's a big question and for those of you who may not wrestle with the concept of the Sun & Moon standing still, the account of the conquest of the land in these 2 chapters are perhaps more difficult to stomach.

What are we to make of this manner of taking the Promised Land? Must it erode our trust in the God of these Scriptures who is Christ? How are we to wrap our minds around these accounts? Should we even bother? Is there anything helpful in these passages anyhow? We hope to consider all these questions and more with you on Sunday and I hope you find Joshua's insight especially encouraging even if you leave with these tensions unsolved.