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Treading Water

"Get ready to cross the Jordan River." (Joshua 1:2) Treading water gets tiring. Getting to that distant shore seems impossible, so I keep treading water, momentarily safe. My efforts get me nowhere but exhausted; I can't keep doing this. What's the other alternative, drowning? It's terrifying to stop treading water, scary to start moving forward. I can't reach the shore, ...

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Rest to Restart

Remember the command that Moses the servant of the Lord gave you: "The Lord your God is giving you rest and has granted you this land (Joshua 1:13). You are to help your brothers until the Lord gives them rest (Joshua 1:14b). Please pause here and picture a sleeping baby. Did you smile? They are so sweet when they're sleeping, aren't they? Yet their way to dreamland ofte...

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Moses is Dead!

After the death of Moses the servant of the LORD, the LORD said to Joshua, "Moses my servant is dead. Now then, you and all these people, get ready to cross the Jordan River " (Joshua 1:1-2). What got you here may not be all you need to get you there. As the book of Joshua opens, the people of Israel are at a significant "restart" moment. Forty years of wilderness wander...

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The Main Objective

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go." Joshua 1:9 Once upon a time in a land far away I was a teacher. In college I took an education course specifically geared toward instructing new teachers how to create effective lesson plans. It was tedious work, but all th...

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The Blessing of Confrontation?

Jeremiah 2 Has it ever happened to you that a good friend "got in your face" about some aspect of your conduct and, much as you may not have liked the experience, you had to (eventually) agree that your friend was on to something? Welcome to Jeremiah 2. Here the "friend" is the Lord God Almighty, and the faces being gotten into belong to the people of Israel. It's a tou...

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Memorable Amazing Water

My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water (Jeremiah 2:13). One of my early childhood memories is of my brother and me drinking water from an artesian well. Over the years that memory faded. Then came the daysixty years later--when my mother and I re-visited ...

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Spring Water or Cistern Water?

"My people have forsaken me, the spring of Living Water, and havedug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water" (Jeremiah 2:13). The high school soccer trophies on the bedroom shelf. The honors cords draped over the college diploma. The plaque honoring excellence at work. They all hold some measure of success, offer some sense of security: Look what I did...

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"Where is the LORD?"

They did not ask, "Where is the LORD?" The priests did not ask, "Where is the LORD?" My people have forsaken me, the spring of living water (Jeremiah 2:6, 8, 13). Unhook is our theme word for this third week of our Restart! Series: it's hard to really get restarted if you're chained to something! How do we get unhooked so that we can get going again? The feeling of bei...

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Spring > Cistern

My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water,and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water (Jeremiah 2:13). [Editor's Note: because our writing team had the week off between Christmas and New Year's, our Connect Devotionals got a week behind the preaching and home group study schedules. We're now back in sy...

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Hineni

God called to Moses from the bush. And Moses said, "Here I am" (Exodus 3:4). This week we've been exploring what it means to Restart. How do we keep going in what feels like an unending wilderness? How do we "find God" in situations that seem only to communicate God's absence? Where do we gain the energy to hear and obey God when we feel weighed and dragged down by so man...

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