Maryville Moms

Did any of you resolve to spend more time with God this past New Year? So you sit down to read your Bible and realize you don’t remember what you’ve just read? While you’ve been reading your brain has been going over all the many “to-do’s” on your list.  It’s not easy quieting our inner [...]

I’ve had a song spinning in my head since early yesterday morning.  In the midst of a sweet, airy song, about loving a girl, It’s you has a lyric that keeps dancing in my mind. “You’re the proof I use to measure what is true.” Do you subscribe to horoscopes?  I don’t.  First of all, the Bible [...]

The Maryville Moms Friday morning group has spent the last 10 weeks studying the Book of Revelation.  (One more week, ladies – I’m so proud of you!)  We’re using Here and Now:  There and Then videos and books by Beth Moore.  I expected to spend a little more time covering the 4 eschatalogical views, but [...]

What should be the greatest verse in this chapter, possibly in the book so far, didn’t impress me-at first.  Awww, c’mon.  This is archaic language. Everyone knows the sun stands still. Oh… and the moon stopped.  Hmm, that’s significant. God stopped the sun.  Well, not really, because the sun is not in motion… but whatever [...]

Joshua and the Israelites were deceived by the Gibeonites.  The inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai, so they made a plan. The Gibeonites presented themselves like they were of a far away land.  They wore dirty and tattered clothes, carried moldy bread and old wineskins, and approached the Israelites [...]

Joshua must’ve learned a lot from Achan’s sin and the battle at Ai in Joshua chapter 7. Now that Isreal had been cleansed from Achan’s sin, Joshua prepared to attack Ai again- this time to win. Lessons we can follow: Let God reveal your sins to you and then confess them.  (7:19-21) When you fail, [...]

Joshua and the Israelites just blew the Canaanites out of Jericho, but with a horn instead of weapons.  It was a strange tactic, but God had a plan.  Click here to read about it. Joshua 6:18 says, “But keep away from the devoted things, so that you will not bring about your own destruction by [...]

So Joshua and his posse are to march around the city silently (were there any women there?!) once a day for 6 days.  On the 7th day, they did 7 laps and after the 7th times the shouted and the walls came tumbling down. What a strange strategy.  According to Aaron McCarter, “Sometimes God has [...]

God parted the Jordan river for the Israelites in chapter 4.  Once the flow of the river was stopped, the word of God’s intervention spread throughout the land.  The Caananites who occupied the shore packed up and left.  Their hearts melted and they lost the courage to stand against God’s chosen people. Little did the [...]

“In the future, when your children ask you, ‘What do these stones mean?’ tell them that the flow of the Jordan was cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD.  When it crossed the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off.  These stones are to be a memorial to the [...]

Joshua 3:5, “Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow for tomorrow the LORD will do amazing things among you.”  This is a statement made by Joshua to the Israelites.  This statement illustrates Joshua’s faith,not only in God, but in God’s plan. The Israelites are preparing to pack up and leave Shittim to cross the Jordan River and conquer [...]

Notice that Joshua sent spies… secretly.  This was an intelligent move.  If the crowd didn’t know that spies were sent, they wouldn’t be looking for reports from behind enemy lines.  The news from the spies served a purpose:  Joshua needed to gather intelligence in order to devise a plan.  The news could also have been [...]